Sandy Muntean served as one of the first female military police officers in the U.S. Army. Times were different back in the ‘70s, she remembered.
“There are quite a few men that didn't think women should do that kind of work,” she said. “And I thought, ‘Well, no, you're wrong.’”
Ohio’s six state-run psychiatric hospitals are nearly full. Their patients are almost exclusively individuals coming from the criminal justice system – including those transferred from jails, those found incompetent to stand trial and those found not guilty by reason of insanity.
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 Homeless Outreach, hasn’t missed a weekend in the last six years.
The National Housing Preservation database estimates that in the next five years, affordability restrictions will expire on about 14,000 rental homes in Ohio that were built with low-income housing tax credits.
Homelessness is on the rise across the state in both urban and more rural areas. However, rural communities often lack shelter spaces and resources to address it.
So, they’re getting creative. Advocates in North Central Ohio found a solution in a former nightclub.
Amidst the hubbub of Columbus, Blendon Woods Metro Park stands as a reminder of what Ohio looked like hundreds of years ago. A canopy of trees stretch overhead, dropping the last of their leaves before winter fully sets in.
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 Ohio’s southeast?
Billions of dollars came to Ohio through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to help mitigate the impact of the coronavirus in 2021. Now, three years later, the majority of the state’s coronavirus relief funds have been committed to a cause.
Each weekday morning, Ray Macklin, known as “Silky Ray” in the blues music world, helps Marion wake up with soulful vocals, sliding guitar riffs and syncopated rhythm.
“Good morning, good morning,” Macklin announced over the air on a recent Tuesday morning as he cued up a setlist of blues songs. “It’s TruBlues, baby.”
Over the course of 18 years, Ohio and its communities are receiving nearly $2 billion from pharmaceutical companies to compensate for harm caused by opioids. The Ohio Newsroom is following the money. This is our settlement story of the month.
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 his breath.
