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Dec 11, 2024 | 
midstory.org | Ryan Konarska
The town of Michigan City, Indiana, woke up on January 19, 2024, to a winter surprise: Three feet of snow had inundated the small factory town on the southern shore of Lake Michigan. Northeast Indiana is not usually prone to massive deluges of snow. Nearby Gary, Indiana, records an average of just over two feet of snow per year, a foot less than Michigan City received in a day. How did the small city of 32,000 get covered with such a thick winter blanket? The Great Lakes hold the answer.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
midstory.org | Casey He |Ryan Konarska |JULIA GONZÁLEZ |Julia Gonzalez |Tyler Pellek
While the 2024 presidential election is expected to be close nationally, the outcome in Ohio seems to be beyond a doubt. Ohio’s rightward shift over the past decade appears likely to continue, and Donald Trump is set to win the Buckeye State for a third time. “I think everybody generally agrees that Donald Trump is going to win Ohio in 2024 with relative ease, using that populist coalition that he’s built,” Matt Dole, chair of the Licking County Republican Party, said.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
midstory.org | Casey He |Ryan Konarska |JULIA GONZÁLEZ |Julia Gonzalez |Tyler Pellek |Judy Zeng
Midstory is a 501(c)(3) non-profit thinkhub that progresses the narrative of the Midwest by incubating bright, diverse and interdisciplinary thinkers to exchange ideas and envision the future of our region through multimedia storytelling and solutions-oriented research since its founding in 2018.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
midstory.org | Ryan Konarska
On November 6, 1995, Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell made an announcement that shocked both the Forest City and the nation: The Browns were moving to Baltimore. “This has been a very, very tough road for my family and for me,” Modell said following the announcement of the move. “I can never forget the kindness of the people of Cleveland, the fans that supported the Browns for years, but frankly, it came down to a simple proposition. I had no choice.”The Browns are a Cleveland institution.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
midstory.org | Ryan Konarska
Robert Frederick and his family moved into their dream home on Detroit’s west side in 1966. Four years later, they watched as it met the wrecking ball for the construction of the Jeffries Freeway, a road that snakes through Detroit’s west side. Their story mirrors the thousands of others whose homes, memories, and lives were paved over for Detroit’s final freeway.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
midstory.org | Casey He |Ryan Konarska |JULIA GONZÁLEZ |Julia Gonzalez |Tyler Pellek
As Ohio goes, so goes the nation. At least, it used to. The Buckeye State — the seventh most populous and 34th in size among the states — has been a longtime focus of politicians, pundits and political scientists alike for a simple but peculiar reason. In each presidential election between 1964 and 2016, the candidate that won Ohio also won the presidency. Ohio’s streak stands as the longest in American history.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
midstory.org | Ryan Konarska
Every weekday morning at 7 a.m., a pair of two-car trains emerge from a storage facility in Downtown Detroit to begin a 2.94-mile loop around the neighborhood. After one revolution, during which trains pass landmarks such as the Huntington Place convention center and the Renaissance Center office and hotel complex, the trains make another loop — and then another, and then another, circling downtown until the evening.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
midstory.org | Ryan Konarska
Madison County is an expanse of fields and agricultural land located just west of Columbus, Ohio. The county’s landscape will soon be home to the largest agrivoltaic project constructed in the U.S, according to the Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB). The Oak Run Solar Project is a renewable energy installation that will combine solar power and farming to generate 800 megawatts of electricity and graze 2,000 acres of land. The OPSB approved the project in March of 2024.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
dailyprincetonian.com | Ryan Konarska
Campus Club, as students know it today, is a forum for student groups to convene for Undergraduate Student Government (USG) study breaks. But the site where students sip on Coffee Club seasonal lattes was once a tap room, where members and their guests danced into the early hours of the morning. The dining room on the first floor where students gather with friends to pore over problem sets was once where Campus Club members assembled for meals.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
dailyprincetonian.com | Ryan Konarska
The winter 2023 Undergraduate Student Government (USG) elections are the most contested elections since at least 2013, and the Class of 2025 Senator race is no exception with six candidates. With the departures of Ned Dockery ’25 and Braiden Aaronson ’25 from the senate, both seats are open. This contested election stands in contrast to previous years as the senior class senator role is usually uncontested. Not including this year, this role has been contested only one time in the last decade.
