by Ted Boettner | Nov 10, 2020 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
If policymakers at the state and federal level want to build a strong economy with good paying jobs in the Ohio River Valley region it will require raising wages, improving job quality standards, and increasing disposable income of workers. That’s because most...
by Joanne Kilgour | Nov 9, 2020 | Blog Posts, Fair Democracy, Research
The 2020 election has taken place against the backdrop of a pandemic, a racial justice movement, and record-setting political spending–projected to total nearly $14 billion, a figure greater than the GDP of Armenia. For a culture that is used to immediate...
by Joanne Kilgour | Nov 3, 2020 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, Fair Democracy, Newsletter, Research
A Message from Our Executive Director Back at my desk in Pennsylvania, I have the strong sensation of being in the eye of a storm; the past few months of frenzied political campaigning and voter education have crescendoed, Election Day has arrived, and the gaze of...
by Hayat Norimine | Oct 30, 2020 | Blog Posts
[Editor’s note: This article is republished with permission from Sightline Institute. Read the original article here.] The United States Supreme Court earlier this week refused to decide on a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that allowed the state to count ballots...
by Sean O'Leary | Oct 30, 2020 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
Tim Puko of the Wall Street Journal recently reported that President Trump is weighing an executive order to study the economic impacts of fracking. The order, if issued less than a week before election day, will be a transparent attempt to contrast the president’s...
by Joanne Kilgour | Oct 20, 2020 | Blog Posts, Research
A Message from Our Executive Director In a time of partisan political gridlock in Washington, DC, municipalities throughout the region are weathering the anxiety of maintaining operations and meeting financial obligations without the promise of...
by Lou Martin | Oct 19, 2020 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
In this election, 79 percent of the voters list the economy as a very important issue, more than any of other issue, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center. Growing up in the Ohio Valley, whenever the discussion turned to bringing jobs to the area, the steel...
by Eric de Place | Oct 16, 2020 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas
October 22, 1944 was an ordinary Friday in Cleveland until 2:40 in the afternoon. That’s when liquefied natural gas (LNG) that had quietly seeped from a storage tank into the city’s sewer lines exploded with staggering force. The blast sent steel manhole covers...
by Sean O'Leary | Oct 15, 2020 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia should try it instead of throwing up barriers In 2009, Texas was the nation’s biggest consumer of coal for the generation of electricity. By 2019 Texas had cut its consumption of coal by a third and replaced it with . . . If you...
by Joanne Kilgour | Oct 7, 2020 | Blog Posts, Newsletter, Research
A Message From Our Executive Director The Ohio River Valley, like much of the country, is currently living under the nation’s microscope – we are facing scrutiny from pundits trying to predict our contribution to the outcome of the Presidential election, we are...
