Today From The Ohio Newsroom

Protests to nonprofit: One Ohioan drives unexpected change

Earlier this year, WVXU in Cincinnati hosted Next Gen Radio. The organization trains the next generation of journalists, teaching them how to report and produce a non-narrated audio piece. This week, we're sharing a few of their stories.

Transforming Cincinnati and themselves — 47 and on a journey to being 'whole'

Earlier this year, WVXU in Cincinnati hosted Next Gen Radio. The organization trains the next generation of journalists, teaching them how to report and produce a non-narrated audio piece. This week, we're sharing a few of their stories.

Ohio poet reclaims her voice after years of discouragement

Earlier this year, WVXU in Cincinnati hosted Next Gen Radio. The organization trains the next generation of journalists, teaching them how to report and produce a non-narrated audio piece. This week, we're sharing a few of their stories. 

Meet the Ohioan behind the 'Mensch on a Bench'

Over a decade ago, Neal Hoffman's son spotted an Elf on a Shelf. The magical toy pops up around Christmastime to tell Santa whether children have been naughty or nice.

Hoffman's son wanted one. But there was just one problem: the Jewish family didn't celebrate Christmas.

"I kind of made this joke and said, 'No, man, you can have mensch on a bench'," Hoffman recalled.

Winging it: how a Northeast Ohio couple made birds their bandmates

Monika Bowman is a communications specialist for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, and a lifelong birder. She'salso an artist, and now she is working on a unique art project that will bring her two passions together. 

Ohio weather monitoring lags behind. A new network could mean better forecasts

On a farm in rural Clark County in southwest Ohio, fallow fields stretch as far as the eye can see. In the middle of them, there's a 35-foot tower.

"You're looking at one of [Ohio's] first mesonet stations," said Aaron Wilson, the state climatologist of Ohio and an ag weather and climate field specialist with Ohio State University Extension.

For some Ohioans in recovery, legal help is the final step to a fresh start

Alex Haley had been sober for five years when he tried to return to work in rural northwest Ohio. But he was first introduced to drugs when he was just 10 years old, and more than a decade of substance use has taken a toll on his health.

'Praying with their feet,' dancers in northern Ohio celebrate a centuries-old holiday

Dressed in full feathered headdresses and sequined regalia, a group of Mexican folk dancers gathered last week inside a church gymnasium in Willard, a small town in northern Ohio.

To the beat of pounding drums, they stomped and kicked out their feet, the beads on their outfits jingling with every move.

Ohio landfills take drilling waste, but don't track or test much of it

The process of fracking a well brings up gas or oil from deep underground. But it also brings dirt and rocks that could be contaminated with radioactivity and other chemicals.

Seeing, hearing and touching the past: a new historical marker is an Ohio first

As a totally blind person, Dawn Christensen has spent a lifetime navigating spaces that aren't easily accessible for the visually impaired.

For example, a nearby community college once invited her to survey their new braille signage shortly after the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law.