On March 18, Cleveland Councilman Mike Polensek joined America’s Work Force to discuss Governor DeWine and his agenda moving forward.

Polensek first spoke about the General Motors Lordstown factory and how the former employees are still fighting to find more work. He said that even though they stopped production on the Chevy Cruze, they could still pick up another line of cars to make, putting the factory back into business. Polensek then spoke about the Amazon bid in Cleveland, where the city had proposed to spend four billion dollars on the Amazon campus plan. Lastly, he discussed DeWine’s proposed gas tax increase of 18 cents, among other plans in his agenda. Polensek said that the only way that a difference can be made is if Democrats and Republicans put their differences aside and work to reach a common ground to fix specific issues.

The second guest on the March 18 edition of AWF was David DeGennaro from the National Wildlife Federation. DeGennaro spoke about the increase in use of ethanol in gasoline and how it is bad for the environment. Although corn farmers will be benefiting from the increase in demand for corn, the Clean Air Act will be violated from this. With more ethanol in gasoline, more gasses will form smog and make certain health issues worse for people. DeGennaro stressed how alternate forms of renewable energy still need to continue to be developed if we want true, clean energy.

AWF host Ed “Flash” Ferenc spoke about the Plain Dealer’s plan to eliminate 14 more newsroom jobs within the next two weeks. He said that we need to continue to promote good journalism and union jobs to prevent this from continuing from happening in the future.

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