Topic: Youngstown
Top galleries, list articles, quizzes
-
In Pictures: Battling the Afghan insurgency
-
Gallery: Our Photos of the Year 2009
All Content
-
The Unwinding
Is America coming undone? New Yorker writer George Packer describes a slow meltdown.
-
Charlie Wilson dies, leaves legacy as Ohio congressman
Charlie Wilson dies: Former US Rep. Charlie Wilson of Ohio secured federal funding for Ohio police departments, airport improvements, and small business incubators.
-
President Obama's State of the Union address full text
The text of the State of the Union address as prepared for delivery by President Barack Obama, and provided by the press office of the White House.
-
Mitt Romney misleads in Ohio auto bailout ad
Mitt Romney has new ad in Ohio that aims to turn President Obama's decision to bail out General Motors against him. The Mitt Romney ad, while technically accurate in its claims, is misleading.
-
How hurricane Sandy tests Obama, Romney
Both candidates have suspended campaigning for now, though Obama surrogates haven't. The president needs to handle the storm well, while Romney has to be careful not to politicize the event.
-
Asian carp policy: Is it keeping Obama and Romney up at night?
Nah. But the issue resonates in (battleground) states around the Great Lakes, so the Romney and Obama camps outlined their approaches to dealing with a prospective Asian carp invasion.
-
Could novel technique to curb global warming also trigger earthquakes?
A report finds that injecting carbon dioxide into underground rock formations, while a potential means of fighting global warming, could increase stresses on faults, leading to earthquakes.
-
Green Economics Academic elites migrate to 'green cities' in increasing numbers
Recent studies suggest a divergence is occurring in average human capital levels across US cities, a path dependence story that college graduates want to live and work near others like them while also creating so-called "green" high amenity cities.
-
On campaign trail, Biden paints Romney as corporate raider
The Vice President was in high-unemployment areas of Ohio, suggesting the GOP candidate doesn't care about workers.
-
Cover Story With all this natural gas, who needs oil?
It's home-grown, plentiful, and touted as the best way to wean the US off Mideast oil. But there are limits to how far the US can tilt toward a natural gas economy.
-
Super Tuesday: For some Ohio voters, Santorum's populist touch resonates
Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum have striven to explain how each is distinguished from the other. Surveys taken ahead of Super Tuesday in Ohio show the two candidates are in a dead heat.
-
Super Tuesday: Mitt Romney woos blue-collar voters in Ohio
Mitt Romney is locked in a tight GOP primary battle with Rick Santorum for Ohio, perhaps the biggest prize on Super Tuesday. On Monday he campaigned in blue-collar Youngstown.
-
How fracking might have led to an Ohio earthquake
The 4.0 Ohio earthquake this weekend was a reminder that activities related to hydraulic fracturing, or 'fracking,' can cause seismic faults to shift if not carried out carefully.
-
Opinion: Why I rent, despite low mortgage rates
Mortgage rates are in the basement. Real estate is more affordable. But in this dismal job market, Americans need to stay mobile. For now, home is where I lay my head, and it’s a rental.
-
Job market dismal? Here are the bright spots.
Although it added no net new jobs in August, the economy has some sectors that are growing robustly. Technology, health care, and some regional job markets are doing well.
-
In Pictures: Battling the Afghan insurgency
-
Retooling the Motor City: Can Detroit save itself?
A retooling plan for Detroit – involving controversial razing, shrinking, and repurposing – is under way as the Motor City tries to save itself.
-
In Wisconsin's long shadow, unions and tea partyers face off across US
Police have separated union activists and tea party supporters in Atlanta, Denver, Des Moines, and Columbus, as tensions rise over a Wisconsin push to curtail collective bargaining.
-
Supreme Court: Did it just hint at stance on a health-care law challenge?
The Supreme Court refused to take up a case examining Congress's authority under the commerce clause, a key issue in a legal challenge to Obama's health-care law. Two justices dissented.
-
In Ohio, Obama says his policies have created jobs. Is that true?
Visiting a manufacturing plant in Youngstown, Ohio, President Obama said the $787 billion Recovery Act helped avert a possible depression. Critics – especially Republicans – aren't so sure.
-
Not-so-free iced coffee day at Dunkin Donuts
Dunkin Donuts free iced coffee day turns out to be limited in scope this year.
-
Gallery: Our Photos of the Year 2009
-
A better way to create jobs
Nurturing start-ups works even better than infrastructure projects.
-
A Rust Belt city tries to shrink its way to success
Youngstown, Ohio’s groundbreaking plan for revival collides with recession and hard choices about neighborhood survival.
-
Where can working Americans afford a home?
They are still priced out of the housing market in many cities across the country, a new study concludes.
Become part of the Monitor community