Just off Interstate 75 at exit 68 north of Dayton, the Tipp City Plaza once bustled with businesses, offering a convenient spot to pick up groceries, dry cleaning and lunch all in one stop.
These days, though, about half the storefronts are vacant.
An “AVAILABLE” sign leans against a window so dirty people have drawn shapes into the dust.
Inside Willis Bing Davis’s studio, a series of portraits hung on the wall: a charcoal drawing of basketball coach Troy Pearson, an oil painting of Judge Mia Wortham Spells, a digital photo ren
In November of 2023, Ohio became the 24th state to vote to legalize adult-use cannabis. In August of 2024, dispensaries across the state opened their doors.
Off of Sunbury Road on Columbus’s northeast side, the two-story home of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson stands apart from its neighbors. The front doors have painted images of smiling Black women surrounded by boldly colored sections of red, orange, blue, green and white. Instead of a grassy lawn, there’s bricks and rocks.
Ohio has been the hardest hit by the national outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu. The devastating infection, which often leads farmers to euthanizing whole flocks, has been detected in 10 Ohio counties in recent months.
Ohio’s emergency response system is getting a major upgrade.
Rural eastern Ohio’s Washington and Monroe counties have become the first in the state to implement Next Generation 911 (NG911), an internet-based emergency response system that allows Ohioans in an emergency to text and send photos and videos.
A perfect storm of rising costs and enrollment challenges has some small private colleges in Ohio, and across the country, facing an existential crisis.
Winters on the Great Lakes are getting shorter.
A recent study published in the Environmental Research Letters found the lakes are losing an average of 1.43 days of ice-cover and near freezing surface water temperatures each year.
That adds up to about two weeks every decade.
Ohio’s private school voucher program started small. Students at underperforming schools in the city of Cleveland could use the vouchers, funded by taxpayer dollars, to pay for tuition at private schools in hopes of receiving a higher quality education.
Three decades later, the state’s private school voucher program is universal.
This article is courtesy of Inside Climate News.
Dwayne Petko kneels on the concrete floor of a semi-built house and turns the knob of a large fan mounted in the front doorway, part of the most common test in his line of work.
