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Posted inEditor's Pick

A Road Trip through Trump’s America

by Seyward Darby July 5, 2023July 5, 2023

“Former U.S. President Donald Trump is seeking another term in the White House. A trip through Republican-controlled states reveals just how radically America has already changed. Can the country survive a second Trump tenure?”

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Rubber Industry’s Toxic Legacy in Akron

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands April 20, 2021October 19, 2022

“The jobs that a whole generation of Akronites held are mostly gone, but the health effects of the toxins they worked around every day still linger.”

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

“A Series of Small Collapses Caused by Continual Neglect”

by Krista Stevens February 15, 2021October 19, 2022

“A series of small collapses is how they come to be radicalized.”

Posted inBusiness, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

The Can That Was Supposed to Help Save a City

by Aaron Gilbreath May 18, 2020October 19, 2022

The story of Chill-Can is the story of Youngstown, Ohio’s troubled approach to economic development.

Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quotes

For Each Survivor of a Mass Shooting, a Different (Slow) Road to Recovery

by Sari Botton November 21, 2018October 19, 2022

Can anyone truly fully recover from witnessing — and losing loved ones — in a school shooting?

Posted inEditor's Pick

Chardon, Ohio

by Sari Botton November 21, 2018October 19, 2022

Six years after a mass shooting at the local High School, Libby Copeland visits with survivors and observes various ways they live and cope with lasting trauma.

Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story

A Toxic Tour Through Underground Ohio

by Justin Nobel January 30, 2018October 19, 2022

A booming injection well industry is pumping toxic waste deep into the earth in Ohio’s rural towns.

Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Science & Nature

A Toxic Tour Through Underground Ohio

by Justin Nobel January 30, 2018October 19, 2022

A booming injection well industry is pumping toxic waste deep into the earth in Ohio’s rural towns.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

The Kids Are Not Alright: How Opioids are Destroying American Families

by Krista Stevens July 6, 2017October 19, 2022

As mom and dad nod out and overdose, the under-funded American foster care system is struggling to mind the children.

Posted inNonfiction

A Slice of Cake and a Tip Lead to a Portrait of Addiction in Ohio

by mlegro March 14, 2017October 19, 2022

New York Times reporter Jack Healy was sitting in a diner when he received a tip about a father who had lost two of his three adult children to opioid overdoses.

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