For Many Working On The Front Lines Of The Opioid Epidemic, A New DEA Field Division In Appalachia Is Not The Answer
By Adam K. Raymond President Donald Trump’s October declaration of the opioid epidemic as a public health emergency was set [...]
Belt Publishing Announces Belt Revivals
[A letter from the publisher] I spent the bulk of the 1990s in graduate school, reading novels, mainly American ones, [...]
When Detroit Pot Shops Ran Rampant: A Photo Essay by Dave Jordano
VIEW SLIDESHOW You’d think Detroit’s cannabis advocates would be thrilled at the recent announcement [...]
In Appalachia, Coding Bootcamps That Aim To Retrain Coal Miners Increasingly Show Themselves To Be ‘New Collar’ Grifters
By Elizabeth Catte A recent class action lawsuit filed in West Virginia against a retraining program that promised unemployed coal [...]
Facing a Mental Health Care System Gutted by Mayor Emanuel, Chicago Residents Plagued by Gun Violence Are Opting To Fund Their Own Clinics
By Jonathan Foiles Photo by Sebastián Hidalgo for The Chicago Reporter When I met Anthony more than two years ago, [...]
Midwest Architectural Journeys: Call For Contributors
Belt Publishing will be publishing an anthology of essays about Midwestern architecture in 2019. Alexandra Lange, architecture critic for Curbed [...]
For More Than 100 Years, South Milwaukee Identified As The Manufacturer Of The World’s Most Impressive Mining Equipment. Now What?
By Lisa Holewa It is Small Business Saturday, and South Milwaukee’s downtown looks ready: holiday lights are strung from light [...]
In The Grass Lots Outside New Era Field, Buffalo Is Burning
It’s two hours before kickoff in a tailgate parking lot adjacent to New Era Field, home of the Buffalo Bills, and a man jumps from the roof of an RV.
Can You Have Redevelopment Without Gentrification? Some In The Walnut Hills Neighborhood Of Cincinnati Say Yes.
By Hillary Copsey Walnut Hills, a neighborhood inside Cincinnati’s urban core, is having a big year. After the community suffered [...]
On Being ‘In Real Estate’ in Cleveland, OH
I usually tell people “I’m in real estate.” That’s not as charged as “I’m a landlord.” Everybody hates landlords. Everybody got free rent as kids and thinks rent should be free.
Rightsizing Thanksgiving in the Rust Belt
As the jobs have vanished, as education and employment have lured our young people out-of-state and overseas, our holidays have been transformed as well.
Big Ag vs. Lake Erie: How Ohio’s Biggest Industry Threatens Its Greatest Resource
In late September, temperatures in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan eclipsed 90 degrees for six straight days.