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A new Ohio law involving dissolution could mean fewer villages
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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AQUILLA, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Julie Petrowski isn’t moving, but her address is changing because of a law involving dissolution. For more than thirty years, she’s been a resident… Read More
Ohio cities want more housing options. Could the solution be in their backyards?
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — Some Ohio cities are looking for more affordable housing options in their own backyard. This year, Columbus launched a pilot program to explore the value of accessory… Read More
How John Rankin, Ohio’s “father of abolitionism,” helped 2,000 people reach freedom
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — When Reverend John Rankin moved to the southern Ohio town of Ripley on the banks of the Ohio River in 1822, he quickly became one… Read More
Here’s what to watch for in Ohio’s next legislative session
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Monday marked a fresh start for Ohio legislators. It’s the beginning of Ohio’s 136th legislative session, which means a flurry of ideas – both… Read More
What Trump’s win could mean for solar manufacturing in Ohio
By: Leila Goldstein | The Ohio Newsroom
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (The Ohio Newsroom) — Pulling up to the entrance of a solar panel factory outside Cambodia’s capital, a poster greets visitors with New East Solar Energy’s vision: Three… Read More
Southeast Asian solar manufacturers look elsewhere to escape tariffs
By: Leila Goldstein | The Ohio Newsroom
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HO CHI MING CITY, Vietnam (The Ohio Newsroom) — About five years ago, orders for panels from one of the solar manufacturers in Southeast Asia, Red Sun Energy, in Ho… Read More
The University of Cincinnati started Ohio’s first competitive collegiate adaptive sports program
By: Isabel Nissley | WVXU
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CINCINNATI (WVXU) — When she was 10 years old, Logan Cover caught a glimpse of her future at a wheelchair basketball camp at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. “From then on, I… Read More
Outside the North Pole, Ohio was once the center of toy-making magic
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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XENIA, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Rob Eldridge collects scraps of his childhood. At his vintage toy shop in Xenia, the shelves are stocked with all the obsessions of his… Read More
Tariffs are changing the global solar market. An Ohio company played a role
By: Leila Goldstein | The Ohio Newsroom
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PERRYSBURG, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Inside a factory owned by Ohio-founded First Solar, machine techs monitor screens as glass panels are sanded down, coated with a thin layer of… Read More
Nearly 600 veterans are homeless in Ohio. Can villages of tiny homes help?
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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TUSCARAWAS COUNTY, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Sandy Muntean served as one of the first female military police officers in the U.S. Army. Times were different back in the ‘70s,… Read More
Steubenville’s giant nutcracker village might not be magic, but they’re bringing a downtown to life
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Days before Thanksgiving, Brodie Stutzman stood in his workshop considering a nearly finished nutcracker. Unlike the traditional mantel-topping toy, this one is almost as… Read More
Some Ohio cities are banning sleeping outside – and facing backlash for it
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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NEWARK, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Every Saturday, Trish Perry sets up a table with hot dogs, harm reduction kits and winter coats on Main Street in Newark. Her organization, Newark… Read More
Ohio is working to create more affordable housing as rent restrictions expire
By: Allie Vugrincic | WOSU
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WOSU) — The National Housing Preservation database estimates that in the next five years, affordability restrictions will expire on about 14,000 units of affordable housing in Ohio that… Read More
Ohio has designated the majority of its American Rescue Plan Act funds. Here’s where the money is going
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Billions of dollars came to Ohio through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to help mitigate the impact of the coronavirus in 2021. Now,… Read More
From nightclubs to hardware stores, rural counties get creative to address homelessness
By: Anna Huntsman | Ideastream Public Media
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WOOSTER, Ohio (Ideastream Public Media) — Homelessness is on the rise across the state in both urban and more rural areas. However, rural communities often lack shelter spaces and resources… Read More
Self-driving cars are on their way to southeast Ohio
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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ATHENS, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Self-driving cars already roam the streets of cities like San Francisco and Austin, Texas. But how do they fare on the hilly terrain of… Read More
Here’s what we can take away from conversations with wrongfully convicted Ohioans
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Central Ohio native Richard Horton was released from prison last year — more than a decade after he was wrongfully convicted for a… Read More
Taking showers on the road: How a “Soap-n-Hope” effort aims to address growing homelessness
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — It’s just after 9 o’clock in the morning and the sky is clear blue, the air just crisp enough that Tommy Morrison can see… Read More
This small Ohio radio station is saving the blues
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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MARION, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Each weekday morning, Ray Macklin, known as “Silky Ray” in the blues music world, helps Marion wake up with soulful vocals, sliding guitar riffs… Read More
Meet the Ohio pastor turning guns into garden tools
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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TOLEDO, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Joel Shenk believes his hammer is an instrument of peace. On an October day, he repeatedly smashed it down into an anvil at Toledo… Read More
A statewide telehealth service is changing the game for Ohioans with gambling addictions
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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TOLEDO, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Aubrey Price’s office is covered in posters illustrating therapeutic techniques. She’s a counselor at the Zepf Center, which houses one of the largest treatment… Read More
How will Ohio replace its 750,000 lead-based water lines?
By: Becca Costello | WVXU
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CINCINNATI (WVXU) — New federal rules went into effect last month that require utilities to replace all water lines made out of lead within the next decade. That will be a… Read More
Is replacing Ohio’s lead lines worth the multi-billion-dollar price tag?
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — Last month, the U.S. EPA issued a new rule: drinking water systems across the country have to find and replace lead lines within the next… Read More
Has the city stopped calling? Ohio’s small towns are attracting more young people
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — More young people, ages 25 to 44, are deciding to leave big cities behind in favor of rural small towns. For decades, young people have flocked… Read More
Despite improvements, Ohio still has among the worst infant mortality rates in the nation
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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AKRON, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — A decade ago, one ZIP code in Akron had the highest infant mortality rate in the country. The rest of Ohio wasn’t faring much… Read More