Jamie Small works for the University of Dayton's Human Rights Center as part of a project funded in 2022 by the Department of Homeland Security called PREVENTS Ohio. It works with individuals and community groups to convene conversations on difficult issues.
The diabetes rate in southeast Ohio is more than double the national average. Nearly 20% of the region’s adults have the chronic disease.
New research is providing insight about why.
Ohio has approved the purchase of so-called “shoot houses” to train school staff who are permitted to carry guns on school grounds.
Ohio is filled with public art.
Ohioans played a sizable part of the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
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.
