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"Bitcoin Boulevard" no longer booming

By Elizabeth Miller

January 08, 2016

"Bitcoin Boulevard" was once booming, now businesses have closed and bitcoin's value has gone down. — Francis Storr/Flickr

When businesses in a Cleveland suburb began accepting bitcoin, the response was huge

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Nuclear cleanup work sustains ailing Ohio town

By Lewis Wallace

December 04, 2015

Norm and Betty Jo Anderson have lived in Piketon since the mid-1950s, when Norm started working at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant. — Lewis Wallace

One town in Ohio is holding on to remnants of Cold War-era uranium enrichment.

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Urban Meyer on coaching football ... and life

By Kai Ryssdal and Tommy Andres

October 28, 2015

"Football is the ultimate team sport," says coach Urban Meyer of the Ohio State Buckeyes. "It's hard to gain a yard without relying on each other." — Rich Schultz/Getty Images

The elite college coach wants you to apply his locker room lessons off the field.

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The tough road from Bhutan refugee camp to the US

By Lewis Wallace

October 05, 2015

Tara Dhungana came to the U.S. five years ago after nearly two decades in a camp in Nepal. He's now the head of employment services for Community Refugee and Immigration Services in Columbus, Ohio. — Lewis Wallace

Many of the refugees have never worked and have had little to no education.

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What makes a land of opportunity

By Krissy Clark

April 16, 2015

Kathlene Somerset-Fields and her daughter Phoneickalla. — Krissy Clark/Marketplace

Dayton, Ohio can teach us a lot about mobility and the American Dream.

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Finding the beta version of Silicon Valley

By Krissy Clark and Lizzie O'Leary

March 20, 2015

A model of the Wright Brothers’ workshop in Dayton, Ohio, where they designed and built the first working airplane on display at Carillon Historical Park. — Krissy Clark/Marketplace

Does the American dream still exist in America? Location, location, location.

POSTED IN: innovation Unemployment Dayton Ohio invention technology

A disappearing industry in Lorain, Ohio

By David Brancaccio

January 16, 2015

The U.S. steel industry is facing a slump. — (China Photos/Getty Images)

As the price of crude oil falls, so does the demand for steel.

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Ohio wants its slice of fracking's oil wealth

October 29, 2014

US-Energy-Gas-Environment Jeff Boggs, responsible for the drilling at Consol Energy poses in front of one of the company's Horizontal Gas Drilling Rigs exploring the Marcellus Shale outside the town of Waynesburg, PA. — Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images)

Some states tax oil production much more than other states

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How investors are profiting off a 'rentership society'

October 10, 2014

A house on Beech Avenue in Cincinnati, Ohio.  In Cincinnati's East Price Hill, Ken Smith runs a community development corporation Price Hill Will. Their community development work includes buying neglected buildings that are unattractive to investors, and rehabbing them into beautiful homes. Smith shows me a stately yellow two-story on Beech Avenue. "The street has a lot of potential, and has a lot of investment," he says. — Wkimedia Commons

The housing crisis created a slew of new landlords. Does an investor makes a good one?

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