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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....

From top left: Presidents William Henry Harrison; Ulysses Grant; Rutherford B. Hayes; James Garfield; Benjamin Harrison; William McKinley; William Howard Taft; Warren G. Harding.

Ohio Has Produced 8 Presidents - Who Could Be Next?

Ohio has been referred to as the "Mother of Presidents." Seven U.S. presidents were born in Ohio: Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield,...

Pope Francis goes electric in new eco-friendly popemobile

Pope Francis, who heads the Catholic Church, has doubled down on his commitment to the environment with a new electric popemobile presented by Mercedes-Benz.

Coronavirus In Ohio: Local Arts Organizations Pay Steep Price

As Ohio’s COVID-19 crisis continues, Columbus-area arts organizations have canceled dozens of performances by local and visiting artists, world premieres…

Wayne Thomas introduces himself to a group during the Frederick Douglass Project for Justice at Pickaway Correctional Institution. It's a program that connects those inside and out of prison.

One project is changing Ohioans' perspective on prison — through conversation

The Frederick Douglass Project for Justice brings those inside and outside of prisons together to build community and break stereotypes.

A man stands at a microphone and dozens of people sit in chairs behind him

‘Hardest decision’: Clark County bans utility-scale solar, wind in unincorporated areas

A public hearing Wednesday allowed people to voice their opinions on a proposed ban on utility-scale wind and solar projects in parts of Clark County.

Karen Handel, in a congressional seat runoff, pictured when she was a vice president at the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation. She landed in controversy there about Planned Parenthood funding.

Ga. Republican, At Center Of Planned Parenthood Controversy, Back In Spotlight

Karen Handel kept her distance from Trump in the Georgia special election, but her efforts to strip Planned Parenthood of its funding from the Susan G. Komen foundation could keep liberals fired up.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets President Trump's Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt in Jerusalem on June 21.

For New U.S. Mideast Peace Envoy, It Will Be A Long Road To 'Ultimate Deal'

For years, Jason Greenblatt was chief legal officer at the Trump Organization. Now his job is to help bring peace to the Middle East. His closeness to Trump may help, but it's no guarantee of success.

Houses in the eastern suburbs of Columbus

Ohio officials fear steep surge in sales taxes if property taxes abolished

As volunteers work to gather hundreds of thousands of signatures to ask voters to abolish property taxes in Ohio, concerns about soaring sales taxes are coming to light.

There were around 8,100 new COVID-19 cases reported in Ohio on yet the state's COVID-19 dashboard says thousands of cases remain under review. On Thursday, Gov. Mike DeWine said the state is double-checking around 12,000 rapid antigen tests.

Morning Headlines: Ohio Tops 8,000 Cases Sunday, Data Still Incomplete; Akron Public Schools Pauses

Around 8,100 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Ohio on Sunday and another 200 hospitalizations; Akron Public Schools is pausing plans for some students to return to the classroom as COVID-19 cases spike; Cleveland's shuttered I-X Center is getting a new use as space for Purell major GOJO Industries; and more stories.

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