Keith Biery Golick

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MIAMI TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Walking through tall grass near what used to be a cart path, Jessica Spencer warns me about sinkholes. Her colleague is looking for poison ivy. Spencer is the director of natural resources for Hamilton County Great Parks, and she wants to show me how construction crews buried more than a mile of streams in culvert pipes underneath an old golf course in Miami Township. When we're done, Spencer says she’ll need to check me for ticks.

2 weeks ago | wcpo.com | Keith Biery Golick

Growing up, his friends used to buy Van Halen and Guns N’ Roses cassettes. But he wasn't interested in that. Mcmillan listened to all the George Carlin and Robin Williams tapes he could get his hands on. In the lobby of the Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services building, Mcmillan tells me he works as a peer recovery supporter. That means he’s had his own experiences with mental health issues — issues he tells me he suffered through in silence for more than two decades. “I had lost my mind.

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If you're in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988 — or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. It’s raining, and Jaimee Seitz climbs into the back of an SUV. She already has a poncho on and seems a little nervous. “Hopefully, this just passes real quick,” Seitz said.

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WAYNE TOWNSHIP, Ohio — The first time I spoke to Tracy Paul Downs, she’d just left a funeral. That’s normal for her. She’s a chaplain for people in hospice care. “It’s the greatest job in the world,” Paul Downs told me. But she quickly clarifies. Because the funeral she left was for someone she’d visited for more than a year. Someone she got to know very well. Someone who’s gone now. “It’s hard, but so many good things in life are hard,” Paul Downs said.

3 weeks ago | wcpo.com | Keith Biery Golick

CINCINNATI — Devin Miller mops the floor in his dad’s kitchen. Then, he washes the dishes. Above his head, there's a hole in the ceiling the size of suitcase. When Miller walks into the dining room, he points to another hole on the other side of the room. Then, he shows me a baby picture on the wall. “This is the same house I grew up in,” Miller said. Standing a few feet from severe water damage, he shows his 77-year-old father a few pictures from his time in the Navy.