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Richard Jones covers schools and education for Cox Media Group Ohio. He graduated from Ross High School and Miami University, claiming that he became interested in journalism "by accident."
He is the father of two children, both of whom are pursuing careers in musical theater.
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County program works to reduce repeat offenders
There are many challenges for people coming out of prison, and when that person has a mental illness — and more than half of them do — the challenges can seem insurmountable.“They are not only looking at struggling with finding housing, a reliable source of income, and adjusting to the ...
Local veterans get boost on job searches
Veterans may have an advantage in landing a job in this economy, if they only knew the benefits available to them.Capt. Mike Glaser of Oxford, a 30-year Navy veteran set to retire at the end of the month, attended a Veteran’s Job Fair Tuesday at Workforce One to help him ...
County employees bond over fundraising efforts
The camaraderie in the Butler County Auditor’s Office has been off the charts lately as its employees rally around cancer-stricken co-workers.According to Chief Deputy Auditor Dawn Mills, the 48 employees raised nearly $5,000 going into a Relay For Life event at Lakota East High School Friday night, and were confident ...
Little Brothers wait in line for mentors
Franklin High School freshman Austin Hall likes sports and French.He makes As and Bs in his honors classes, and likes French best because he’s learning not just about the language but also the people who speak it.But having been raised by a single mother and a father who lives out ...
Forum explores future of the river
The commemoration of the Great Flood 1913 turned toward the future Friday night as community leaders gathered for a forum to discuss the potential and the challenges of using the river as an asset for economic development in Hamilton.Hamilton was founded because of its access to the river, but after ...
New video tells the story of the Great Flood
Middletown’s Sam Ashworth debuted his video documentary, “The 1913 Flood: Shadow Over the Miami Valley,” to a full house Friday night in the Heritage Hall Museum. Ashworth said he worked for about a year on the hour-long video, using archival film and photographs as well as readings from the diaries ...
Conservancy’s work set standard for future flood control
The efforts of the Miami Conservancy District following the Great Flood of 1913 were an unprecedented engineering feat that set the standard for future flood control measures world-wide.Construction historian Dan Antenan provided a photographic overview of the effort in “Putting the Conservancy in Place and Making a Safe Channel in ...
Group wants to keep Richter name alive
Charles Francis Richter is not the familiar name it could be, according to a group of local historians.The Butler County native was a seismologist and physicist who, in 1935, invented a way of rating the severity of earthquakes by measuring the shock waves they produced.Although his calculation formulas were supplanted ...
Butler County health care leaders support Medicaid expansion
As the debate over Medicaid expansion in Ohio rages, a consortium of Butler County health care leaders threw their support behind the proposal Tuesday, saying the expansion would be good for health care and the economy by aiding the working poor.A provision in Gov. John Kasich’s proposed biennial budget calls ...
Miami narrows dean search to two
The Miami University Provost’s office has identified two finalists to be the next dean of Miami University’s business school.Mary Gowan and Kenneth Kavajecz are in the running to oversee the Richard T. Farmer School of Business’ 121 full-time faculty and 42 staff members. Undergraduate enrollment at the Farmer School of ...
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