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Biggest Games of 2014: West Virginia
By: Michael Drapcho
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Editor's Note: With practices beginning in a matter of days, our writers have scanned the schedules to find the biggest games for the upcoming season. We continue with West Virginia. Williamstown at Ritchie County, Week 10 It’s an old saying, but more times than not, it rings true: revenge is sweet. The Williamstown Yellow Jackets… Read More
Biggest Games of 2014: SEOAL
By: Nick Komjati
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Editor's Note: With fall practices beginning in a matter of days, our writers have scanned the schedules to find the biggest games of the 2014 season. We continue with the SEOAL. The five teams of the Southeastern Ohio Athletic League surge into the 2014 season after an offseason that left many wondering whether the SEOAL… Read More
Biggest Games of 2014: MVL
Editor's Note: With practices beginning in a matter of days, our writers have scanned the schedules to find the biggest games for the upcoming season. We begin in the MVL. Philo at Maysville, Week 3 This matchup has always been one for the books, and it’s a great rivalry that never fails to disappoint. In… Read More
Ohio Athletics Releases 2013-14 Annual Report
Ohio Athletics released its 2013-14 Annual Report on Thursday. The 16-page document highlights the program’s athletic, academic and financial successes of the past year. For the fifth-straight season, both football and men’s basketball played in postseason competition.. The football team earned an invitation to the Beef O’Brady’s Bowl in St. Petersburg, Fla. It was Ohio’s… Read More
Logan’s Sunnyside Grocery Denied Variance To Reopen
By: Debra Tobin | Logan Daily News
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With more traffic, tourists and people coming into Hocking County and Downtown Logan, it would be beneficial for everyone to support small businesses and entrepreneurs wishing to open businesses. However, this is not the case for one local woman who was denied a request for a variance from the Logan City Zoning Board of Appeals… Read More
Majority Of Top Healthcare Jobs In Cleveland Don’t Require Bachelor’s Degree
By: Brian Bull | Ohio Public Radio • WCPN
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Nationally, nearly half of the total healthcare workforce in the 100 largest American metropolitan areas are employed as nurses, support technicians, psychiatric and home health aides. For many of those role’s a two-year associate’s degree or high school diploma will suffice. In the Greater Cleveland area, that number’s slightly higher, ranking the city eighth among… Read More
World Breastfeeding Week 2014
Jackie Wolf welcomes guest Michele Biddlestone, Lactation Consultant at O'Bleness Memorial Hospital, to talk about World Breastfeeding Week. Taking place every year during the first week of August, this years theme is "Breastfeeding: A Winning Goal for Life", a division of the United Nation's "Millenium Development" goals to fight poverty and their effort to create… Read More
Strickland Doesn’t Regret The Way He Handled Ohio’s Economy
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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Many economic indicators show Ohio’s economy has recovered significantly since the nation’s recession in 2008 and 2009. One controversial measure passed by congress gave states billions of dollars to prop up their economies. Ohio got about $10 billion from the federal government during that period. As many states were decimating the jobs of state employees, shelving… Read More
Ohio State Fires Band Director For Ignoring ‘Sexualized’ Culture
By: Associated Press
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Ohio State University has fired the director of its celebrated marching band amid allegations he knew about and ignored "serious cultural issues" including sexual harassment. Jonathan Waters had led the band since 2012, and served in lesser capacities for a decade. OSU President Michael Drake said in a video statement Thursday that a two-month investigation… Read More
Biden Talks Infrastructure At National Urban League Conference
By: Tana Weingartner | Ohio Public Radio • WVXU
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Vice President Joe Biden told the National Urban League Conference Thursday morning that the Obama administration is committed to job training and infrastructure repair. Biden said that will go far in putting under-employed urban residents, particularly African-Americans, in better paying jobs. Biden, speaking at a gathering of several thousand delegates to the civil rights group’s… Read More