Extended TV Interview with U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown on Trade, Jobs, Great Lakes, more

Ohio’s Democratic U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown spent much of today (March 20, 2017) in Cleveland, for events touching, in part on infrastructure investment, and job creation.

ideastream’s Tony Ganzer spoke with Brown about a number of issues, including proposed cuts to the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, renegotiating trade deals like NAFTA, his thoughts on job and career-creation, and his thoughts on President Trump, among others.

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Listen to a radio report and find a partial transcript from WCPN: 

TV excerpt aired March 20, 2017 on WVIZ’s Ideas program. A radio excerpt aired the same day on WCPN’s All Things Considered.

BROWN: “A trade war is unacceptable, and I would hope the President doesn’t want to see a trade war. I certainly have never, my position on trade has never gone to that. But I think the whole idea of renegotiation suggests that both sides come to the table, and you renegotiate issues like the rules of origin for auto, which would matter for our auto industry, not just Ford, and GM, and Chrysler, and Honda in Ohio, but the whole supply chain. You also talk about investor-state dispute settlement, where corporations have the power to sue other countries on trade that really does ultimately undermine consumer protections, environmental rules, and all that. So those are the ones we need renegotiation. Two days after the election, literally, I called the President’s, I called the leader of his transition team on trade, and talked to him at length about my offer to help him renegotiate NAFTA, to pull out of Trans-Pacific Partnership, and to be aggressive about trade enforcement rules. That sometimes makes other countries unhappy. They enforce their rules aggressively, we should, too. That doesn’t mean trade war, it means a leveler playing field, and it means you follow the rule of law. We haven’t done that as well as we should. I’m hopeful, and I will stand with this president to do that. I’ve not seen anything come out of that yet, I hopeful it does.”

TV Debrief with tape: Some Confusion, Frustration After Executive Order On Refugees

There is still much confusion around President Donald Trump’s Executive Order temporarily barring citizens from seven largely Muslim countries, and refugees, from entering the U.S.

After the President signed the Order Friday, came news that a Syrian family had been scheduled to leave a refugee camp in Turkey Monday, to arrive in Cleveland Tuesday.

ideastream’s Tony Ganzer shares some of the local reaction to the travel ban from refugee resettlement organization US Together, and a Syrian business owner living in Northeast Ohio.

https://youtu.be/gkzn0meCGWw

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Video package: The Swiss art curator witnessing a Cleveland renaissance

Reto Thüring had to find Cleveland on a map when he was called for an interview with the city’s art museum in 2012, and he had no real expectations of what lay ahead.

Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) had just finished a major renovation, and a new gallery space was about to open. Thüring says he was impressed by the museum’s potential and eager for what was to come, even if some of the challenges of living in a rebounding American city – crime, poverty, blight – are very different from a life in Switzerland.

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Art as a catalyst for change

“Art as a catalyst for change”
Published May 31, 2016 | swissinfo.ch

“What’s an up-and-coming contemporary art curator from Switzerland doing in the American Midwest Rust Belt? The answer lies in a city experiencing a rebirth.

Reto Thüring had to find Cleveland on a map when he was called for an interview with the city’s art museum in 2012, and he had no real expectations of what lay ahead.

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TV package: If You’re Looking For Authentic Japanese Goods And Culture Try…Columbus?

If you’re a fan of authentic Japanese products and cuisine, Northeast Ohio is not overflowing with options. Some Asian grocery stores carry the essentials, and there are various restaurants, but for some people that’s not enough. And they’re willing to travel for the good stuff. ideastream’s Tony Ganzer reports from Central Ohio and a hub of Japanese fare.

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