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.
Latest Headlines
- Epstein's former attorney testifies he had 'no knowledge whatsoever' of crimes
- Feds announce huge natural gas plant, data center project in southern Ohio
- Meteorite hunters scour Northeast Ohio for fragments of 7-ton space rock
- More Marines are headed to Middle East as Iran war reaches the 3-week mark
- FCC approves merger of local television owners Nexstar and Tegna as two lawsuits seek to block it
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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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The Trump administration announced a three-phase transition that will eventually include management of most federal student loans as well as the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). -
The Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College is exhibiting a retrospective on the late June Leaf, a figurative artist who reveled in exploring the human comedy. -
NPR has learned that mediators have quietly given Hamas a proposal to hand over all its weapons to ensure Gaza's reconstruction. -
The museum presents Nell Dorr's "The Golden Key" on March 26 with a panel discussion. -
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.
