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'Gloria' Explores Costs of Competition at Work

Workplace drama takes center stage at Cleveland Public Theatre in its latest play, "Gloria." Young professionals vie for a break at a magazine while veteran employees keep their distance until a tragedy unfolds in the office. The play, written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, takes a critical look at personal ambition, and director Beth Wood was eager to bring it to Cleveland Public Theatre.

University of Akron engineering students launch a 300-pound concrete canoe during an American Society of Civil Engineers conference at Portage Lakes State Park.

University of Akron Students Build Concrete Boat, Steel Bridge at Engineering Conferences

University of Akron engineering students are getting a chance to showcase their design-build skills at two prominent conferences the school is hosting....

The Brecksville Dam will be removed this fall.

The Cuyahoga River's Most Dangerous Dam Will Soon be Coming Down

Editor's Note: This story was originally published on May 2, 2019. One of the last remaining dams on the Cuyahoga River will soon be coming down. The...

Sunday Puzzle: Familiar 2 Words

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and member station KTEP listener Philip Rosen of El Paso, Texas.

Concerts, Festivals, & Music News!

Lots of happenings coming up in the Cincinnati area this month including concerts by local and national musicians, the Juneteenth Festival in Eden Park,...

Bail Reform In Cuyahoga County Will Be Taken Up By A New Justice Council

About three months ago, an independent report [PDF] recommended sweeping changes to the way bail is set for everyone arrested in Cuyahoga County. It also addressed the issue of who should be released while awaiting trial.

Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar is a senior statistician and Director of the Statistics Advisory Center at RAND Corporation. Her current research interests center on leveraging natural experiment designs to estimate the effects of neighborhood-level 'interventions' or changes on residents' health behaviors (e.g. diet, physical activity) and outcomes (e.g. obesity).

Stats + Stories: Are Communities Helped By Terraforming Food Deserts?

WYSO is partnering with Stats and Stories, a podcast produced at Miami University. The Rand Corporation is a global think-tank which launched in 1948....

Small portraits of Deb Goode Jarison's parents hang on a wall of the small office in her Yellow Springs home, where much of the work she performs as founder of EECAP takes place.

Yellow Springs Resident Advocates For Nuclear Weapons Workers

Recently, Dayton History opened to the public their latest historical exhibit detailing the history of operations at the Mound Nuclear Facility in...

Sen. Sherrod Brown told the Akron Press Club that it's become increasingly clear that failure to save the multi-employer pensions could have larger repercussions.

Committee To Save Multi-Employer Pensions Warns the Problems Could be Much Bigger

A rare House and Senate committee is expected to hold its third hearing Thursday to try to figure how to save pensions for 1 and a half million people....

In this April 29, 2018 file photo, a member of the Central American migrant caravan, holding a child, looks through the border wall toward a group of people gathered on the U.S. side, as he stands on the beach where the border wall ends in the ocean, in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, April 29, 2018 (AP Photo/Hans-Maximo Musielik, File)

Migrant Children At The Border

Did the U.S. really lose some 1500 migrant children? We’ll look at that and the administration’s new policy on separating families.

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