M.L. Schultze
Social Justice ReporterM.L. Schultze came to WKSU as news director in July 2007 after 25 years at The Repository in Canton, where she was managing editor for nearly a decade. She’s now the digital editor and an award-winning reporter and analyst who has appeared on NPR, Here and Now and the TakeAway, as well as being a regular panelist on Ideas, the WVIZ public television's reporter roundtable.
Schultze's work includes ongoing reporting on community-police relations; immigration; fracking and extensive state, local and national political coverage. She’s also past president of Ohio Associated Press Media Editors and the Akron Press Club, and remains on the board of both.
A native of the Philadelphia, Pa., area, Schultze graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in magazine journalism and political science. She lives in Canton with her husband, Rick Senften, the retired special projects editor at The Rep and now a specialist working with kids involved in the juvenile courts. Their daughter, Gwen, lives and works in the Washington, D.C.-area with her husband and two sons. Their son, Christopher, lives in Hawaii.
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Although the pandemic caused preschool education to stop for many, a local kindergarten readiness program's enrollment is recovering as it expands services. -
Preschool got walloped in the pandemic, and kids disappeared from classrooms. The loss was greatest in communities of color and poverty, but coming out of the shutdown, efforts are underway to recover and, perhaps, grow preschool post-pandemic.
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With the number cast at almost 160,000, sorting through provisionals is a time consuming endeavor.
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Voters in Northeast Ohio are receiving texts telling them to challenge people at the polls they believe shouldn't be voting.
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There can be a lot of gray when it comes to what qualifies as voter intimidation and what does not.
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Cuyahoga County charged Jacob Wohl and John Burkman of engineering a robocall scam targeting Black voters.
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In Cleveland, Canton, and Akron, the Boards of Elections served thousands of people.
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Listeners still have plenty of questions about the upcoming election.
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50,000 recruited, still 5,000 to go before election day.
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Some efforts this year are meant to do more than sway the minority vote.
