The World from PRX

ohio

Adult cicadas cover a plant, Monday, May 17, 2021, at Woodend Sanctuary and Mansion, in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Environment
Have you seen the Brood X cicadas?
Syrian refugees embrace after landing at Chicago's O'Hare airport.
Immigration
US refugee agencies wither as Trump administration cuts numbers to historic lows
Nanette Senters is one of roughly 1,500 workers at the General Motors factory in Lordstown, Ohio, that will no longer be working there come March.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Rust Belt jobs are still going overseas. The impact could be felt for generations.
A preacher stands at the front of a mostly full church
Immigration
A tale of two sanctuary churches: Congregants in Ohio and the Netherlands find ‘instant connection’
Three GM employees at a meeting with worried faces.
Jobs
GM to slash jobs and production in North America, drawing criticism from Trump and unions
coffee
Business, Economics and Jobs
With Dirty Girl coffee, this entrepreneur strives to make life better for women in Appalachia
Cherise Greer
Conflict
Here’s a list of ways to help women who’ve been incarcerated
women at a prison
Lifestyle
As opioids land more women in prison, Ohio finds alternative treatments
Harley-Davidson motorcycles on display at the company’s headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. An EPA penalty of $15 million for selling emissions defeat devices was decreased by $3 million under the Trump administration in December 2017.
Global Politics
Environmental prosecutions under Trump projected to be the lowest in two decades
Cleveland Indians logo
Sports
Cleveland Indians will ditch ‘Chief Wahoo’ logo on uniforms next year
US Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) addresses a rally ahead of arguments in a key voting rights case involving a challenge to the Ohio’s policy of purging infrequent voters from voter registration rolls outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, Jan. 10, 201
Justice
Divided Supreme Court hears Ohio voter purge case
Otto Warmbier
Conflict
Otto Warmbier, the student released from North Korea last week, has died
The Sierra Club is organizing grassroots activists to push Cleveland’s city leaders to commit to 100 percent renewable energy by the year 2050.
Jobs
In Cleveland, climate change isn’t about rising seas. It’s about jobs and health.
Otura Mun
Music
This Mennonite-turned-Yoruba priest makes hypnotic electronic music
Nunes, phone
Economics
How a community in Ohio is stepping up when deportations split families
Somali Americans recently gathered at a banquet hall in Columbus, Ohio, to celebrate Somalia’s new president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed.
Global Politics
Why some Somali Americans are cheering for their home country’s new president
Maggie Smith
Culture
This is the official poem of 2016
Myaamia Chief Doug Lankford (right), linguist David Costa (center), and Myaamia Center director Daryl Baldwin (left), watching a traditional Stomp Dance in Oxford, Ohio.
Culture
How the Miami Tribe got its language back
Mick Luber, Ohio
Business
Natural gas companies are using hardball tactics to expand their network of pipelines
Gas compressor station
Environment
Compressor stations are a new flashpoint in the debate over natural gas extraction
Gas compressor station
Environment
Compressor stations are a new flashpoint in the debate over natural gas extraction
Avon Lake power plant
Environment
Pollution from America’s power plants is a deadly serious problem, a new study shows
Anti-Trump protesters (R) clash with Donald Trump supporters (L) outside the Anaheim Convention Center during a rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on May 25, 2016 in Anaheim, California.
Conflict
Journalists got trained like war correspondents to cover the US conventions
Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James celebrates during the NBA championship parade in downtown Cleveland.
Business
Why Cleveland’s NBA championship is so amazing, for Italians
Tamir Rice protests
Conflict
No charges — no surprise to the local African American community — in Tamir Rice killing
A US National Weather Service map shows precipitation levels across the southeastern US on October 4, 2015. White splotches in South Carolina indicate areas with more than 10 inches of rain.
Environment
The Carolinas’ ‘thousand-year’ flood follows a big rainfall trend across the US
Sammis power plant
Environment
An Ohio power company wants to reverse the deregulation it once fought for
PA gas pipeline
Environment
A proposed Ohio gas pipeline is raising safety and property rights concerns for landowners in Ohio
Daniel Melendez is program director for TSJ Media, which runs three Spanish-language radio stations in Ohio, including La Mega, and puts out out Spanish-language newspapers and magazines all over the Mid-West.
Music
Cleveland’s La Mega radio tries to unite diverse Latin American communities
Cyanobacteria, or "green slime," is wreaking havoc with Lake Erie's water supplies and fishing industries. The outbreaks are caused largely by runoff of fertilizers and other nutrients from farms, and they're a growing problem in the Great Lakes and aroun
Environment
In the fight against green slime on Lake Erie, farmers try to clean up their act
In Ohio, concerned citizens can bring water from their wells to a monthly water monitoring program.
Environment
Fearing pollution, some local governments are demanding back zoning control over oil and gas
A Student Union mosaic wall at University of Akron in Ohio. The university is one of several in the US screening students for Ebola that are returning to campus from West African countries.
Health
Universities are screening students from West Africa for Ebola as they return to school
An orchid plant at Green Circle Growers in Oberlin, Ohio.
Environment
This Ohio greenhouse is taking cues on growing orchids from the masters — the Dutch
Global Scan
Israel’s Iron Dome may be protecting its cities — but prolonging the violence
Wind turbines Denmark
Environment
One of offshore wind power’s best hopes is fading on Lake Erie
Business, Economics and Jobs
Minimum wage increase coming to several states
Global Politics
Politics, policy and The Tea Party: the top 5 things to look for in the new congress
Investigative journalist Kathryn Joyce (Photo: courtesy Kathryn Joyce)
Conflict & Justice
Abortion Foes in Mexico Borrow Tactics From US Allies
Global Politics
Police in Ohio, 26 other states using facial recognition software in secret
Business, Economics and Jobs
Fracking arrives in Amish Country
New Report Shows Ohio Police Secretly Use Facial Recognition Technology
Dissecting The Egyptian Division in Cairo & the United States
Business, Economics and Jobs
Regional Manufacturing Hubs, to Compete with Foreign Competition, Begin in Youngstown, Ohio
Global Politics
Former FISA judge offers solution to restore confidence in court
Global Politics
Protests, arrests pile up as North Carolina legislature pushes conservative agenda
Environment
New monuments join National Park System this summer
Environment
Ohio city of Oberlin debuts community-wide environmental dashboard
Global Politics
Along Texas border, residents aren’t eager for more intense security
Conflict & Justice
Grand jury will convene to consider more charges in Ohio rape case