Beyond Good and Bad: A Conversation with Connor Coyne
By Kelsey Ronan On September 22nd, Flint native Connor Coyne will launch a novel twenty-two years in the making. The [...]
Dad Rock: Tom Petty and the Music of My Father
By Erin Osmon When we buried my mother in a sylvan plot on the north side of Evansville, Indiana, she [...]
Aretha Was Detroit
By Aaron Foley Reprinted with permission from Detroit's The Neighborhoods, where Aaron Foley has continued to chronicle the city's response to [...]
Why Do We Continue To Be Surprised By Gentrification?
Part of what many people find so irritating—or dangerous, depending on how much you have at stake—about upwardly mobile young people moving to working-class city neighborhoods is the sense of frivolity, of flightiness, they carry with them.
Pot Still Won’t Be Legal In Ohio For Awhile, But At The Cleveland School Of Cannabis Students Are Already Hitting The Books
The building is one of those beige, ’80s office numbers, and through the half-shut blinds, cars are whizzing past on Interstate 480. It’s a beautiful day in April, and in the darkened classroom, the teacher is doing a midterm review with the students, going through slides of vocabulary and textbook photos.
In Appalachia’s ‘Alcohol Alley,’ booze purveyors say a pipeline is threatening their industry
By Dave Infante You could mistake the view from Bold Rock for a Bob Ross painting, if not for the [...]
Ohio’s impending Stand Your Ground law will protect shooters who claim self-defense; if they’re white, according to opponents
By Trevor Bach Banner photo by Brett Carlsen A controversial gun bill is likely headed for a floor vote in [...]
As Flint suffers and Nestlé prospers, many are asking: Who owns the rights to Michigan water?
By Trevor Bach Photo by Brittany Greeson On a chilly spring Wednesday in April, more than 50 people congregated at [...]
Without a permit from Ohio EPA, a major gas processing facility threatens a family farm
By Justin Nobel The perfect farm life that Pete and Micki Rockenhauser had crafted for themselves and their four-year-old son, [...]
‘This Land Is My Heart’: A mother and daughter’s 34-day stand against the Mountain Valley Pipeline
By Mason Adams Photography by Will Solis Flowing water saturates the Terry family property, which sits atop Bent Mountain roughly [...]
A wind farm on Lake Erie? If only Ohio pols, and some environmental activists, too, would get out of the way.
By Justin Nobel Icebreaker Wind, a promising Lake Erie wind energy project — which would be the first freshwater wind [...]
In Parma, Ohio, suburban refuge of plastic pink flamingos and Trump supporters, medical marijuana is on its way
When Governor John Kasich signed the bill legalizing medical pot for Ohio in 2016, everyone involved understood that actually making [...]