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.
Ibrahima Keita said Ohio felt like home from the start. He first came to the U.S. in 1990, fleeing from persecution in Mali.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When Jennifer Harris found out she could get married during the eclipse, she knew that’s where she’d be saying ‘I do.’
“We were trying to find something more unique,” she said. “And when this came up, we just immediately were excited about it.”
On a spring day in the Wayne National Forest, a crew of hard-hat clad volunteers pulls weeds, trims trees and clears branches from a winding dirt trail.
Rob Call is among them.
In the summer, he’ll make the hour-long drive from Lancaster to mountain bike here nearly every weekend.