Based on our recent statewide conversations on community vibrancy, we have been diving deeper into …
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Glimmers of hope in a community of crumbling buildings
By M.L. Schultze Your Voice Ohio This story was written by freelance writer M.L. Schultze, …
Promoting Wage Growth
Our team recently wrapped up a series of community conversations across Ohio, in an attempt to …
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 …
Creating a Different Kind of Neighborhood
A few weeks ago, we explored local action steps that would increase economic mobility at a local …
Plant Portsmouth event seeks to break world record
This story is from Friends of Portsmouth, a non-profit organization for the betterment of …
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 …
Factors Associated with Economic Growth
Last week we explored three simple questions - where have we been? where are we now? and where …
The past, present, and future of Ohio’s economy
Part of the shift towards a focus on economic vibrancy is helping communities explore growth in the …
Declaring the opioid crisis a state emergency
Governors in the United States have the ability to declare an official state of emergency in the …
‘Til the Wheels Fall Off: Semi-Pro Football in the Cradle of the NFL
This story was written by Jack Shuler, producer, story writer and a professor at Denison University, …
The Overlap Between Mental Health & The Opioid Crisis
We have previously explored how people can become chemically dependent on opioids, and it's …
Cost of An Epidemic
Late last year, Ohio State University’s C. William Swank Program in Rural-Urban Policy conducted a …
Expanding Access to MAT
Medication-assisted treatment (MAT), including Methadone, Buprenorphine, and Naltrexone, has been …
Ohioans have solutions to the addiction crisis. Is anyone listening?
Give Ohioans time to listen to one another and they are capable of developing a plan to turn around …
Addiction Doesn’t Discriminate: Community Conversations in Central Ohio
Over the last week, journalists from the Columbus Dispatch, Newark Advocate, Marion Star, and …
Taxing Opioids
We have explored the role pharmaceutical companies have played in our current opioid crisis and …
Stopping the flow of dangerous drugs into our communities
Synthetic opioids like Fentanyl have played a huge role in the spike of overdose fatalities in Ohio …
The Role of Pharmaceutical Companies
Of all unintentional overdose deaths in Ohio in 2016, 20.6 percent had an opioid prescription in the …
Exploring the Data Behind the Opioid Epidemic
What proportion of the population has been directly affected by the opioid epidemic? What does an …
