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Tangier Health Code Story Draft
STRUTHERS - Like public food? What about sanitary public food? Normally, you wouldn’t get one without the other, but you may have been exposed to food-borne illness if you visited the Tangier Pizza Shop before it closed in September.
Dominion Gas Company had shut off gas to the Tangier, 880 Youngstown-Poland Road, on Aug. 27, according to a ( Read more... ) -
Video Interview Footage for the Two Stories
The following is a five-minute clip of travel and interview footage from my weekend trip to central Ohio. Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksZzq7XNW7U
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Morrow County Is a Politcal Tossed Salad
With voters potentially going in any direction, only time will tell how the county will fare in November.
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Travel Plans
Yes this is late. Trust me, though, we went ALL OUT for our (Me, Rudi, Jessica) projects, and the wait was worth it. I simply have not had the time (or laptop) to post this until now. Here we go.
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Immediately after the announcement of our counties in class, myself, Rudi Whitmore and Jessica Petrinjak made arrangements to have a weekend carpool ( Read more... ) -
Introduction: Delaware and Morrow Counties, Ohio
DELAWARE COUNTY
(I hereby declare this angle to this post: drawing parallels.)
Take Youngstown. Drop a larger city right outside Mahoning County, give it a Big Ten school and the combined industrial force of Cleveland and Pittsburgh.
Presto: You have Delaware County.
If Youngstown was a suburb to, say, Allentown, it would have close to the same ( Read more... ) -
My Introduction in Advanced News Reporting
(The following is a supplement to an in-class discussion involving my personal career and educational status and decisions as required in advanced news reporting ( Read more... ) -
Ripple Effect: Part 3 - History Lesson
By John Cutlip
MAHONING COUNTY - Not dwelling on the past is one thing, but, according to local leaders, forgetting it entirely is a mistake Youngstown and the surrounding areas should never make. There are certain things one can learn from the Mahoning Valley’s rise and fall.
The first historical blunder, according to Campbell Mayor Jack E. Dill, ( Read more... ) -
Ripple Effect: Part 2 - Job Solving
By John Cutlip
MAHONING COUNTY - The Youngstown area has a few problems, but none seem as dire as the need for jobs. Residents who basked in the former glory of the once-bustling industrial empire of northeast Ohio still feel the sting from watching it all waste away three decades ago. But as one experienced local leader explains, these lingering ( Read more... ) -
Ripple Effect: Part One - Human Capital
In the coming weeks, the Hometown Journal will examine the impact Youngstown’s future has on Struthers, Campbell, Lowellville and Coitsville. This three-part series, “How Youngstown’s Future Affects the Surrounding Area,” will address the influence Youngstown has on the area’s next generation, the job outlook and what we can learn from the past. ( Read more... )
