Today From The Ohio Newsroom

Toledo Blade union members renew efforts to secure a labor contract

A union representing Toledo Blade employees is renewing its efforts to secure a labor contract.

The last contract between the Toledo NewsGuild and Block Communications, the newspaper’s owner, expired in 2017.

Union members have been negotiating since then to secure a new contract, but have recently doubled down on those efforts after a change in union leadership.

Medicaid eligibility is changing and Ohio community health centers will take a hit. 

Medicaid eligibility is being re-determined in Ohio for the first time in three years.

Another church closes: How Ohio is losing faith in Christianity

Ten minutes before St. Mary Church’s very last mass begins, the pews are already full, lined with people who spent a lifetime building memories between the stained-glass windows.

Many Ohioans still lack broadband access. That could hurt voter engagement.

Nearly a million Ohioans don’t have access to broadband, and that could hurt voter turnout in those areas.

Sandhill cranes are resurging in Ohio

The birds awake before the sun on Saturday morning.

Chirping melodies to fading stars, they’re recognizable by song long before it’s light enough to make out their shapes against the sky.

“I think that's a Redwing calling back there,” Susan Brauning says, tilting her ear to the sky. “And there's a field sparrow that sounds like a ping pong ball dropping.”