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Final collaboration between the late Lee Breuer and his son Mojo Lorwin finds new life at 2025 Athens International Film and Video Festival
By: Emily Votaw
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ATHENS, Ohio – Lee Breuer made art for 83 very busy years. Among his accomplishments was co-founding the groundbreaking experimental theater collective Mabou Mines, a group known for its radical… Read More

The Ohio House GOP budget strips bipartisan K-12 funding plan, but gives districts increases
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — If there was any doubt that the Ohio House’s version of the new two-year budget might fully fund the Fair School Funding Plan, that… Read More

Gov. Mike DeWine signs Ohio’s transportation budget at the finish line with no vetoes
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine signed the $11.5 billion two-year transportation budget at the deadline on Monday. Though it passed the House and the Senate unanimously,… Read More

More Ohio deer are dying from Chronic Wasting Disease. Here’s why that matters
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — Ohio deer are testing positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), a neurological disease that is always fatal to animals like deer, moose and elk. It… Read More

President Trump’s trade wars threaten America’s craft brewers that are already reeling from changing tastes
By: Dee-Ann Durbin | Paul Wiseman | AP
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America’s craft brewers already have enough problems. Hard seltzers and cocktails are muscling into beer sales. Millennials and Gen Z don’t drink as much as their elders. Brewpubs still haven’t… Read More

Scioto County was the ‘epicenter’ of the opioid epidemic. Some think it deserves more settlement funds
By: George Shillcock | WOSU
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PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (WOSU) — As Portsmouth resident Jay Hash drives through town, he’s quick to show off the city’s history and charm, from its famous floodwall murals to historic breweries…. Read More

A syncopated voyage through the history of funk music in “We Want the Funk!” on INDEPENDENT LENS – April 8 at 9 pm
INDEPENDENT LENS PREMIERES A SOULFUL AND MOVING PORTRAIT OF FUNK MUSIC “WE WANT THE FUNK!” APRIL 8 at 9:00 PM ON PBS Filmmaker Stanley Nelson’s Out-Of-This-World Documentary Featuring Interviews With… Read More