Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash The uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the …
Hey Mid-Ohio: What’s your future?
Across Ohio, journalists have been holding community conversations to ask: What will it take to make …
Hope comes from within the Athens community
As journalists in the Your Voice Ohio project sit with people across the state, there is a …
Support Your Voice Ohio on #GivingTuesday
As an Ohio journalist for nearly five decades, I’ve always searched for new ways to engage with …
Ohio’s Resilience Reflected in Athens
In Ohio’s poorest county, about 50 people met a few days before Thanksgiving to discuss what would …
Journalists ask Athens community to set the agenda
Across Ohio, journalists have been holding community conversations to ask: What will it take to make …
Tired of waiting, Ohioans are framing their own solutions
It was a Monday evening in a spiffy YMCA community room in suburban Springboro, Ohio, once a sleepy …
What’s Your Future, SW Ohio?
Local journalists have been listening across Ohio in new ways in the last two years to better …
Green Discusses Diversity
In the third of three pre-election meetings in the suburban city of Green, residents took a deep …
Next community meeting: Green residents say they want to embrace diversity
Green needs to talk about socioeconomic and cultural diversity if the community is to improve, …
What’s Your Future, Green? Residents discuss strengthening relationships, accepting differences, and community solutions
Relationships, acceptance of differences, and acknowledgment of problems were among the things Green …
What do people of Green think needs to be done to assure good lives?
What’s your future, Green? Communities across Ohio are asking a similar question in a state …
Your Voice Ohio: From Engagement to Partnerships
As journalists across the state help design and participate in Your Voice Ohio community meetings …
How the Media Can Better Serve Akron
Sunday’s Akron Beacon Journal front-page presentation on what citizens told reporters and editors …
Across Ohio, community assets are also community needs
Ohio’s gubernatorial candidates – Mike DeWine and Richard Cordray -- have plans for improving life …
Lacking vision and a sense of reality: Is that Ohio?
As a lifelong resident of Northeast Ohio now working with news media all over the state, the …
Ohioans and the future of artificial intelligence
The college-educated, and the not-college-educated: Two life tracks on a collision course? When I …
What makes Ohio vibrant? Join our community conversations
The numbers just aren’t good for Ohio: 152,000 fewer jobs than nearly 20 years ago, lower household …
What does it mean to be an economically successful community?
“Throw out the rules of capitalism. They don’t work anymore.” That was the first idea tossed into a …
Exploitation of America’s heartland hasn’t been lost on the victims
In the Riverfront Bar & Grill of Marietta Ohio’s century-old Lafayette Hotel on a recent steamy …