Matthew Richmond
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Ideastream Public Media
A controversial proposal to turn more than 1,000 acres of farmland in Lorain County into a possible tech mega site was voted down Tuesday putting a hold on what residents fear could be a low-employment, high-polluting data center.
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A space rock weighing 17,000 pounds streaked across Northeast Ohio Monday. It and the effort to ban data centers in the state top our Reporters Roundtable stories this week.
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Akron Public School students, staff and community members celebrated the start of construction Thursday on a new school in the Kenmore neighborhood. -
Several Republican-led states are passing their own versions of the SAVE America Act, Trump-backed legislation that would introduce new proof-of-citizenship requirements to register to vote. -
The latest "Sound of Ideas Community Tour" stops were opportunities for me to learn more about complicated subjects. -
If the U.S. follows through on its threats to bomb the oil assets on Kharg Island, the war would likely escalate and oil prices would increase exponentially. -
People arrested while protesting ICE say federal agents took samples of their DNA. It's legal, but experts say the practice raises questions about what the government is doing with that genetic data. -
The Trump administration says it is seeking a huge budget to refill and expand its munitions. -
A group of rural Ohioans concerned about huge data centers popping up around the state want voters to decide whether they should be banned. -
The city and Department of Justice asked Judge Solomon Oliver in February to end the 10-year-old police reform agreement. -
After more than a month of denying new water service requests to Perry Township amid an ongoing legal dispute, Canton Mayor Bill Sherer announced Wednesday the city will resume approving applications for residential structures.
