Mark Arehart
Arts Reporter/HostMark Arehart joined the award-winning WKSU news team as its arts/culture reporter in 2017. Before coming to Northeast Ohio, Arehart hosted Morning Edition and covered the arts scene for Delaware Public Media. He previously worked for KNKX in Seattle, Kansas Public Radio, and KYUK in Bethel, Alaska.
His reporting has taken him everywhere from remote islands in the Bering Sea to the tops of skyscrapers overlooking Puget Sound. Arehart has been featured on NPR and the Alaska Public Radio Network.
Equal parts Nebraskan/Kansan and a University of Kansas graduate, he's a diehard college basketball fan. He loves reading crime fiction and fantasy, as well as enjoying movies with subtitles, explosions, or both.
As a former morning drive-time host, you'll likely find him out walking his dog, Otis, well before sunrise.
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Ohio Sen. Rob Portman was one of 19 Republicans to vote “yes” on the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill President Joe Biden signed into law Monday. -
After winning Ohio’s 11th congressional district seat in a special election earlier this month, Rep. Shontel Brown got right to work.
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The vaccination rate for Black Summit County residents is nearly 20% lower than white residents, according to the county’s public health department.
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As the museum rebounds from reduced patronage during the COVID-19 pandemic, it will focus on attracting visitors on a local and regional basis.
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The school district points to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic as the cause of student disruptions.
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The health department clarifies who is eligible, which type of shot people should get, and when they should get them.
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The county is launching its own utility department with clean energy on a smaller scale.
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The college of business is renamed after a donor who has given the largest gift in the university's history.
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The Ohio Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the state's utility regulator violated its duty in allowing FirstEnergy to create a subsidiary without a deeper investigation into the matter; the state released the Ohio School Report Cards Thursday and reports scores were down statewide; new coronavirus cases in Ohio remain high, but have declined compared to the peak seen a few weeks ago; and more stories.
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The Republican speaker of the Ohio House Bob Cupp has once again put the brakes on a GOP bill restricting employers' ability to require that workers receive the coronavirus vaccine; the Ohio Republican Party is calling on Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, to recuse herself from a trio of lawsuits challenging new state legislative maps; Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's plan for spending $26 million in stimulus funding has passed through City Council's Safety Committee; and more stories.
