COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – This week on The Spectrum:

• Columbus is one of the fastest-growing cities in the country, and with that growth comes growing pains, from housing to transportation to workforce education.

“The growth that we’ll see over the next 20 years, 1 million more people into our region,” Columbus City Council President Shannon Hardin said.

Hear what city leaders are working to address to make sure the city is capable of supporting the predicted population boom.

• Two controversial bills at the Ohio Statehouse are poised to move forward this week. Hear how they could make the classroom the center of the culture wars.

• The expert the Trump campaign hired to investigate claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election has a new book out telling his side of the story.

“This was about it’s either there or it wasn’t,” said data specialist Ken Block, author of the book Disproven.

See what he found and what he said can make our elections better.

• As the war between Israel and Hamas drags on, can anything be done to prevent more civilian deaths in Gaza? Republican strategist Bob Clegg and Democratic strategist Lou Gentile join the roundtable to weigh in.