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Ohio Employers Can Now Report Workers Who Refuse to Return for Reopening
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The state has paid out more than $1.7 billion to over a half a million jobless Ohioans in the last seven weeks. And while 85… Read More

How the Small Business Loan Program Went Wrong in Just 4 Weeks
By: Danielle Kurtzleben | Jim Zarroli | Laura Sullivan | Cheryl W. Thompson | Bill Chappell | Graham Smith | Pallavi Gogoi | NPR
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Not-so-small companies like Shake Shack and organizations like the LA Lakers were able to get loans that were meant for suffering small businesses. What happened?

Ohio Prioritizes Coronavirus Testing, DeWine Comments on Protesters
By: Lydia Taylor | WKSU
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WKSU) — Gov. Mike DeWine’s COVID-19 press conference Monday started out with a moment of silence to remember the four Kent State students who lost their lives 50 years… Read More

WATCH: Why Your Dreams May Have Been More Vivid During the Outbreak
By: PBS Newshour
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NewsHour) — Deirdre Barrett is a Harvard University professor and an expert on dreaming who has studied the science of dreams for three decades. And with societal anxieties heightened… Read More

Ohio Farmers Hit Hard by Pandemic
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio is among the top states for several agricultural crops and for food production and processing. But while farming is considered an essential business under… Read More

Lawmaker Proposes Bill to Curb DeWine’s Power with Public Health Orders
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Manufacturing, construction and distribution companies can reopen today, with employees wearing masks and observing cleaning and social distancing rules. State lawmakers are also coming back… Read More

Watch Our Town: Lancaster on YouTube
Documentaries will be released each Friday at 8 p.m. ATHENS, OH – WOUB Public Media continues its YouTube release of locally-produced documentaries this week, as Ohioans are staying at home… Read More

Cleveland Local Businesses Reach Out in Tough Times
By: Katrina Kopronica
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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic the Ohio economy has taken a hard hit in many areas. According to the Brookings Institute, “a city that generates the majority of… Read More