As journalists in the Your Voice Ohio project sit with people across the state, there is a …
Inequality
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 …
The Role of News Media & Racial Perceptions of Crime
Your Voice Ohio has listened to over a thousand Ohioans as they talked about the challenges facing …
Promoting Wage Growth
Our team recently wrapped up a series of community conversations across Ohio, in an attempt to …
Ohioans and the future of artificial intelligence
The college-educated, and the not-college-educated: Two life tracks on a collision course? When I …
Creating a Different Kind of Neighborhood
A few weeks ago, we explored local action steps that would increase economic mobility at a local …
Achieving the American Dream in Ohio
The American dream is a bit of an elusive concept to define. To some, it means home ownership, to …
How can communities increase employment access & opportunities?
A growing body of research underscores that the vitality of a region’s economy depends in part on …
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 …
Dylann Roof profile: A writing style for the future, and warning to Ohioans
Long-form writer Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah profiled racist killer Dylann Roof for GQ with some of the …
Who is hopeless? Are journalists imposing hopelessness on people we don’t understand?
Reporter Ashley Bunton at the Washington Court House paper challenged me on a statement that the …
KSU sudent: Old enough to not vote
By Doug Oplinger I did a series of stories in 2000 called "Electing not to vote," in which people …
