As Ohio prepares to usher in a multibillion-dollar gas drilling industry, it is relying on an honor system with well owners for the purpose of collecting taxes and fees, and the numbers don’t add up.
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People always ask Barbara Walters if she is going to interview them, but she’d rather work in her garden. Pamela Anderson won’t pose for Playboy magazine, but she will make envelopes for churches. When Steve Martin isn’t doing housework, he can be found on the golf course. And Taylor Swift would rather work in a science lab than sing country-music songs. These people have three things in common: They have the same name as celebrities, have a different lifestyle than their celebrity counterparts and all live in the Mahoning Valley.
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Canada geese are easy to spot. With their long black necks, white chinstraps and brown feathers, you see them everywhere. They can weigh anywhere from four to 20 pounds. Their numbers have increased over the last five decades and that’s a problem. Joel Anderson has the story.
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Geese and their feces are proven to be a nuisance in Mahoning County and elsewhere
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Ever since the Great Recession began in 2008, the face of poverty has been changing from the stereotypical Hollywood version to one that encompasses people withmiddle class roots.There are still those who have fallen into poverty because of drug and alcohol abuse, but they are now joined by college instructors with master’s degrees, people who had steady jobs and stay-at-home mothers. This series of personal profiles look at people who live at the poverty level and how they got there.
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