When Cardell Belfoure was imprisoned at Grafton Correctional Institute in northeast Ohio, poetry was his refuge. Now that he has reentered society, he’s using his literary talent to center the stories of other formerly incarcerated people.
Lima city councilwoman Carla Thompson said many renters in her city are struggling against unsafe housing conditions. With an older housing stock and a growing rental population, she said tenants are vulnerable.
“I have seen multiple roach and rat infestations that no human should be living through,” Thompson said.
Atlee Kaufman opened Bentwood Solutions four decades ago. The Millersburg business’s original product was bending buggy shafts, which connect the carriages of Amish people like Kaufman to their horses. A few years later, he expanded to table and chair parts at a local Amish furniture maker’s request. He was so successful he sold off the buggy shaft division.
Ohio lost 30 newspapers between 2022 and 2023.
Behind the sweeping walls of Cincinnati’s Union Terminal, something beautiful has been holding its breath.
Since the late 1980s, the Art Deco train station housing the Cincinnati Museum Center has been home to an enormous pipe organ built by the renowned E.M. Skinner company. The first concert in the station drew more than a thousand people in the 1990s.
Ohio housing advocates are predicting a greater number of unhoused people in this year’s annual survey of homelessness.
A decade ago, there were more than 1,500 vacant homes in the northeast Ohio city of Warren.
The area’s population fell rapidly following the industrial decline of the 1980s, leaving behind a trail of empty buildings.
But one local organization is working to address those vacancies.
Women in Ohio hold most of the state’s college degrees, but they’re also more likely than men to live in poverty and less likely to hold public office.
Ohio has a strong history of flying. From the Wright brothers to John Glenn, it's been home to aviators for more than a century.
But these days, a newer technology is taking off in one Ohio county: drones.
The federal government recently allocated $650,000 to the Trumbull County Educational Service Center with the explicit purpose of teaching kids about the technology.
Global leaders want a way to measure a country's success – beyond just economic output. So, each year the United Nations ranks countries based on life expectancy, average education levels and gross income. It’s called the Human Development Index (HDI).
