Valley residents access C-Span technology today at OH WOW! children's center

YOUNGSTOWN

The dark-blue coach bus parked on West Federal Street may have lacked travelers, but was packed with technology.

“We have different ways to access the news and embrace new media platforms,” said Doug Hemmig, referring to C-SPAN, the popular public-affairs cable channel. “But our mission has not changed.”

Hemmig, a C-SPAN community-relations representative, also was talking about the 45-foot customized digital bus that spent part of Saturday morning in downtown Youngstown to give people a chance to learn more about public and community affairs via interactive multimedia.

C-SPAN’s goals include providing viewers access to live, gavel-to-gavel proceedings in the U.S. House and Senate and other forums of public policy; offering its audience, via call-in programs, direct access to elected officials, reporters and other decision makers; and operating in a nonpartisan manner, its mission statement says.

The two-hour local stop at OH WOW! The Roger and Gloria Jones Children’s Center for Science & Technology, 11 W. Federal, was sponsored by Time Warner Cable and was part of a national bus tour.

Read about its stop here in Sunday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.