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In Ohio’s coal country, pandemic pushes unemployment rate from bad to worse
As the novel coronavirus spread, Appalachian Ohio saw the state’s highest percentages of people out of work. By Kathiann M. Kowalski Ohio’s coal mining counties have been hit even harder as unemployment surged following the country’s novel coronavirus outbreak. As the statewide unemployment rate moved from 4.7% in February to 5.6% in March, counties in…
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‘That’s vinegar’: The Ohio River’s history of contamination and progress made
By April Johnston In 1958, researchers from the University of Louisville and the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission gathered at a lock on the Monongahela River for routine collecting, counting and comparing of fish species. At the time, the best way to accomplish this was what’s called lock chamber sampling, or filling a 350-by-56-foot…
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