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Inconsistent Ballot Application Data Leads to Undercount of Disenfranchised Voters
By Rachel Dissell and Lucia Walinchus Haley Belisle, a recent graduate of Ohio Northern University, was baffled this spring when the Hardin County Board of elections rejected her application to vote absentee in the state’s presidential primary. The problem was her signature on the application: It didn’t match her voter registration signature. “When I originally…
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Ohio’s Appalachian region was already losing child care providers. Then the pandemic hit.
This article provided by Eye on Ohio, the nonprofit, nonpartisan Ohio Center for Journalism in partnership with the nonprofit newsroom, The Fuller Project. Please join Eye on Ohio’s free mailing list or the mailing list for the Fuller Project as this helps us provide more public service reporting. By Rachel Dissell CHESAPEAKE, Ohio — The children…
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Ohio regulators decline to force FirstEnergy to hire an independent auditor
The order agrees that spending should be open to review but first requires the company to review itself. This article provided by Eye on Ohio, the nonprofit, nonpartisan Ohio Center for Journalism in partnership with the nonprofit Energy News Network. Please join our free mailing list or the mailing list for the Energy New Network…
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How can students learn at home if they have multiple homes or no home at all?
One group succeeds with holistic approach; demand still exceeds supply By Sydney Kornegay Sylvia Rucker has been a caretaker most of her life. As the head cook at Hannah Gibbons Elementary School in Collinwood, she prepares meals for approximately 250 students daily, and has four adult children of her own. But when her oldest daughter…
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HB 6 costs go well beyond claimed harm to public trust
Here’s what’s at stake as Ohio lawmakers debate whether and how to repeal the bailout law at the heart of an alleged $60 million conspiracy case. This article provided by Eye on Ohio, the nonprofit, nonpartisan Ohio Center for Journalism in partnership with the nonprofit Energy News Network. Please join our free mailing list or…
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Grounded by the pandemic, community groups work to save Cleveland’s census
This article provided by Eye on Ohio, the nonprofit, nonpartisan Ohio Center for Journalism. Please join our free mailing list as this helps us provide more public service reporting. By Lee Chilcote and Conor Morris When Ohio Governor Mike DeWine issued the statewide coronavirus stay-at-home order in mid-March, Selina Pagan and other Latino leaders in…
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Why did 77 Ohio prisoners die of COVID-19, but just 10 in Pennsylvania?
A look at how overcrowding and poor design contributed to two of the worst national outbreaks This article was provided by Eye on Ohio, the nonprofit, nonpartisan Ohio Center for Journalism. Please join our free mailing list as this helps us provide more public service reporting. By Cid Standifer For the first two months after…
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Ohio Schools & Nonprofits Scramble to Add Remote Learning Options For Students With Limited Connectivity
This article provided by Eye on Ohio, the nonprofit, nonpartisan Ohio Center for Journalism. Please join our free mailing list as this helps us provide more public service reporting. By Conor Morris When districts switched to remote learning in the spring, the COVID-19 pandemic revealed a glaring divide: for example two-thirds of students in Cleveland…
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Murray Energy’s limited disclosure in Ohio conspiracy case leaves big questions unanswered
The for-profit corporate structure of Hardworking Ohioans, Inc. and other groups precludes transparency on how companies use money to influence energy policy This article provided by Eye on Ohio, the nonprofit, nonpartisan Ohio Center for Journalism, in partnership with the nonprofit Energy News Network. Help us provide more public service reporting by joining our free…
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Interactive: See the Lands Sold to Fund Ohio’s Land “Grant” Universities
Native Americans Demand More Recognition From Universities They Funded, Sometimes Unwillingly This story was funded by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. This article provided by Eye on Ohio, the nonprofit, nonpartisan Ohio Center for Journalism. Please join our free mailing list or text us at (216) 867-6327 as this helps us…
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