Eltaf’s family home in Dayton feels warm. There’s a big scarlet red, Persian rug that takes up the entire living room, there’s pillows everywhere and it smells of tea — mahmood tea to be exact.
Eltaf’s 2-year-old cousin, Samay, runs around the room. His mom chases him around, trying to pick him up.
The family has made a home in Ohio after coming to America with nothing.
Albert Gibson had a top secret job.
For 37 and a half years, he worked at the Mound, a site near Dayton that developed components for atomic bombs.
It’s not clear the small plot of land on the north side of Youngstown is a community garden. At least not anymore.
Weeds stretch toward the sky, where there once was rows of bright beets and tall turnips. Without dedicated growers, Jubilee Gardens has fallen into disrepair. But on a Friday evening in July, a small group of people are planting.
It’s 4 o’clock on Sunday evening when people start to trickle in to the Cooperative Chess Cultural Center on the east side of Columbus.
John Hoffman is the first to arrive. At 81 years old, he’s a regular.
Then, there’s newbie Lynn Williams, a young woman sporting neon purple and blue hair.
The Riverside Emergency Medical Service started its squad in the early 1980s to serve the village of DeGraff and Pleasant Township, about an hour north of Dayton.
At the time, roughly 30 people volunteered as first responders, remembers Chad Kean, an EMT and trustee for the service.
As patrons lined up for a late afternoon pastry at Athens Bread Company, Tim McKenna prepped croissants. He pounded on a slab of dough and folded it over a stretched-out sheet of butter to create the pastries’ layers.
“God knows how someone figured out how to do all this but, once you get the hang of it, it’s just going through all the steps,” he said.
There aren’t enough mental health counselors in Ohio schools.
For every one school counselor in the state, there’s around 400 students, according to the American School Counselors Association. That far exceeds the recommended ratio of 250 students to 1 counselor.
In the last decade, Americans have felt the effects of climate change, from worsening wildfires out west to more severe heat
Technology is changing Ohio’s workforce. Recent developments in artificial intelligence, automation and machine learning have raised questions about the long-term sustainability of some jobs.
Oberlin in northeast Ohio has an ambitious plan to tackle greenhouse gasses. It wants to reduce its emissions by 75% by 2030, compared to its 2007 levels.
