Four Week Panhandling Certification Course
by Kelcie Erbse Every Wednesday for the next few weeks, The Homeless Charity, a non-profit charity organization...
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Introducing: Baseball Now!
by Dave Daly Baseball is best enjoyed with friends but there is no shame in going to...
Leadership Akron’s Civic Solutions Lab examines the local and national landscape of early childhood education
by Laura Ofobike and Kirsten Toth, Civic Solutions Lab class participant Leadership Akron’s Civic Solutions Lab continues...
Civic Solutions Lab – Field Journal | Leadership Akron
Since 2015, Leadership Akron has been pursuing a strategic priority to more proactively and directly connect the...
Summit County History Organizations Commemorate Centennial of America’s Entry into World War I
The first in a series of local events commemorating Summit County’s contributions in America’s entry into World War...
Beyond the Vision Board: DreamUP encourages women to create art that pushes them toward achieving a life goal
by Megan Combs Life goals are often bigger and more complex than any magazine clippings or drawings on...
What I wish I knew: If wunderkind Courtney Gras had a do-over…
Courtney Gras is a graduate of the University of Akron and was recently named by Forbes Magazine as...
Big Idea : Rooted Akron
Name: Caitlin Boyle Occupation: Owner at Rooted Akron, Healing Arts Director at Big Love Network, Reiki Master Hometown:...
How to repair a neighborhood
by Scott Piepho Stephanie Leonardi lives in a difficult neighborhood. A few blocks to the west lies Summit...
Wanna be startin’ something: Akron makes a play to host NEO’s biggest startup conference
How’s the largest startup conference in Northeast Ohio taking place in Akron sound? That’s what Launch League, which...
The Corner Pocket
When a neighborhood is a neighborhood unto itself words and photos by Mark Schweitzer The pocket neighborhood. If...
Sweet Mary, It’s Equal Pay Day!
Chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, David Pepper and other leaders speak out in downtown Akron on pay...
Dinner with Dan and the Fam
Talking about the city’s past, present and future over a meal the mayor made words by Chris Horne,...
#Akron2Columbus: On the road to making Akron great(est) again
Words by M. Sophie Hamad; Photos by Ilenia Pezzaniti Akron is already awesome. At least, we at...
Senator Bernie Sanders Feels the Big Love Akron Has to Offer
‘The American people understand that based on the teachings of every religion—Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism—that love always trumps...