Dry floodwalls and wet paint: how murals keep one Ohio city’s history alive
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How has extremism in Ohio changed since Jan. 6?
Ohioans played a sizable part of the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
A new book shares the experiences of those deported, after decades of living in Ohio
Ibrahima Keita said Ohio felt like home from the start. He first came to the U.S. in 1990, fleeing from persecution in Mali.
When coal plants operate at a loss, Ohioans have to pay. Now, some want a refund
Ohio electric customers don’t just pay for the electricity they use: They are also charged subsidies to keep power plants in business.
In 2020, for instance, they paid more than $100 million to subsidize two unprofitable coal plants.
Could 3D printed homes help Ohio’s affordable housing shortage?
In the small northwest Ohio city of Wapakoneta, one house stands apart. While it looks like those that surround it, its construction is different. Instead of being built brick by brick, it was 3D printed.
A small town in rural Ohio is producing enriched uranium again. Here's why that matters
When Centrus Energy flipped three switches at its new plant last fall, it was a new beginning for an industry that had been dormant for more than a decade in the United States: uranium enrichment.
Piketon stopped enriching uranium twenty years ago. Now the nuclear industry is coming back
A billboard near the former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant announces in bold letters: “The future is now for PORTS.”
The U.S. Department of Energy has spent more than a decade cleaning up this site, decontaminating and decommissioning facilities that were once used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons during the Cold War.
One groundbreaking glass studio in southeast Ohio is getting a second life
In a boutique off Lancaster’s main street, colorful cocktail glasses sparkle in the light of a chandelier. But, shop owner David Annecy’s favorite part of the store is much less flashy.
He often ushers customers past the shelves of bright glimmering glassware, toward a wall of black and white photos. They show women – with hair perfectly coiffed – painting on a factory floor.
An overhaul of the license suspension process may be on the horizon for Ohio drivers
A person's driver's license can be suspended for a whole host of reasons in Ohio and Sen. Catherine Ingram (D-Cincinnati) knows the headache that can result.
A long-forgotten Black cemetery in northwest Ohio is finally getting recognized
On the surface, there is nothing special about the dirt field Sarah Marshall is standing next to, just outside of Defiance. It sits off a country back road, empty and unmoving, like any other soybean field in northwest Ohio awaiting planting.
But, Marshall, adult services associate at the Defiance Public Library, knows better.