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Dec 12, 2024 | 
gpb.org | Allie Vugrincic
COLUMBUS, Ohio - As the light faded on a warm summer evening, hundreds of Ohio State University students gathered around a stage in a campus courtyard. They sang, they clapped, they bowed their heads in prayer - and they sat and listened as the campus' most revered idols - the football players - gave testimony about their Christian faith. Senior student Lucas Brill stopped on his way home. "I saw, like, probably about a thousand people out.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
wyso.org | Allie Vugrincic
The National Housing Preservation database estimates that in the next five years, affordability restrictions will expire on about 14,000 rental homes in Ohio that were built with low-income housing tax credits. The federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, or LIHTC, program started in 1986. It gave states the equivalent of around $10 billion a year to issue tax credits for the rehab or construction of affordable rental housing.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
wyso.org | Allie Vugrincic
An Ohio State University study found that national infant mortality rates rose after the U.S. Supreme Court removed national abortion protections. In the months after the court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, the U.S. saw a 7% increase in infant mortality, and a 10% increase in mortality among babies with birth defects, the study found.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
wvxu.org | Allie Vugrincic
Over the course of a few days in mid-September, posters cropped up in cities across Ohio. They are royal blue, teal, red and white with bold designs: a ballot box as a speaker, a dove carrying a banner, a hand picking a petal of a flower. And all of them have the same message: VOTE!“They stand out nicely. I'm really happy with the way they're fitting into the landscape,” said artist Shepard Fairey.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
wvxu.org | Allie Vugrincic
Ohio State’s Wetlands Research Center off Olentangy River Road is looking a little dry and a little brown – as are parks and lawns all over central Ohio. Ohio State Extension educator and associate professor Mike Hogan said people have been calling, wondering what to do about their increasingly brown lawns as they head into fall. His answer: do nothing.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
ideastream.org | Allie Vugrincic
Thursday marks on year since eight Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks were named UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Last year, the Great Circle and Octagon earthworks in Newark, five earthworks at the Hopewell Cultural National Historical Park near Chillicothe, and Fort Ancient in Warren County became the 25th World Heritage Site in the U.S. and the first in Ohio. Ohio History Connection says World Heritage status has increased visits to the earthworks, including at the Great Circle in Newark.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
ideastream.org | Allie Vugrincic
On a warm Wednesday morning, volunteers met outside All Saints Episcopal Church in the affluent Columbus suburb of New Albany. Shawn Duffy wheeled out a whiteboard and gave the volunteers their harvest orders: tomatoes, collard greens, half a row of lettuce, peppers, squash and zucchini. Pulling carts and carrying crates, they headed toward either of two large, fenced-in gardens encircled by flowers.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
ideastream.org | Allie Vugrincic
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost told Columbus City Schools the district has to bus thousands of charter and non-public school students who were told they ineligible to receive transportation. The district was relying on a law that states public schools don’t have to bus those students if their travel time is more than 30 minutes. About 1,380 students were notified that they wouldn’t receive bus transportation, according to CCS.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
wyso.org | Allie Vugrincic |Mark Ferenchik
Gov. Mike DeWine tested positive for COVID-19 Tuesday. The governor’s office said in a statement that DeWine is taking Paxlovid, a medication used to treat COVID-19. He is set to work from home for the rest of the week. DeWine started experiencing mild cold-like symptoms on Monday. COVID cases in Ohio have been rising since late June. Statewide, the number of reported new cases rose from 5,962 at the beginning of the month to 7,347 on Aug. 15, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
ideastream.org | Allie Vugrincic |Mark Ferenchik
Gov. Mike DeWine tested positive for COVID-19 Tuesday. The governor’s office said in a statement that DeWine is taking Paxlovid, a medication used to treat COVID-19. He is set to work from home for the rest of the week. DeWine started experiencing mild cold-like symptoms on Monday. COVID cases in Ohio have been rising since late June. Statewide, the number of reported new cases rose from 5,962 at the beginning of the month to 7,347 on Aug. 15, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
