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The End of Youngstown’s Vindicator
The city's daily paper is closing down, leaving a gaping hole in the local journalism landscape.
The End of Youngstown’s Vindicator
The city's daily paper is closing down, leaving a gaping hole in the local journalism landscape.
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Chicago’s First Nations Garden
“While this is a space for Native people to use, to heal our traumas...[it's also] a space so we can outreach to the greater Chicago community."
Just Downriver from Detroit
"During my visits to to the nursing home, Dad and I have sometimes settled into chairs to time-travel through a photo album."
Minneapolis by Segway
"There was always a sense of something missing, a story still jumbled and incomplete..." From "Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology."
Opèksipu Catches Sun Before it Flows Beneath the Washington Street Bridge
"home is built upon the scaffolding / of a hundred thousand stories..."
Are Volunteer Fire Departments Still Viable?
Faced with a lack of money and volunteers, some western Pennsylvania departments are turning to consolidation.
The Young Patriots and the Fight for the Working Class in Uptown
In the 1960s, the organization partnered with the Black Panthers and Young Lords, providing a model for multiracial coalition-building in Chicago.
The Art of Labor
A tour of Milwaukee's conflicted Grohmann Museum. From "The Milwaukee Anthology."
What Indiana Dunes National Park and the Border Wall Have in Common
Among other things, they offer the opportunity to envision a healthy future for everyone.
Today I Laid a Crayfish at Your Grave
"I kneeled at the stump where we laid the Ford agate,/Made up spells and secrets..."
Tapping into Tradition
In the Ohio Valley, more farmers are harvesting maple syrup, a practice that dates to before the arrival of Europeans.
Summers at White Birch Lodge
Reflections on three generations of family and community in Michigan.
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The Rise and Mysterious Fall of the Prehistoric King of Cleveland
Lurking in the dark corners of Cleveland history: the Dunkleosteus. (From 2015).
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