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The state of Ohio has an election for an open U.S. Senate seat next year. It is one of the races that will decide control of the Senate, which is now divided 50/50. But Ohio seems less of a swing state than it used to be. President Trump carried the state twice, and many Republican candidates for Senate are campaigning for an audience of one. NPR s Don Gonyea visited Ohio and reports on Trump s outsized influence.
DON GONYEA, BYLINE: We re in the basement meeting room of the Elks Lodge in Newark, Ohio, about 45 minutes outside Columbus, out beyond the suburbs. Bumper stickers on pickup trucks make it clear that this is Trump country. And a meeting of the Licking County Republican Women is just getting underway.
GOP politics in Ohio has changed in the Trump era. And a trip to the state reveals some mixed views among Republicans about the outsized influence Trump retains in the state.
GOP politics in Ohio has changed in the Trump era. And a trip to the state reveals some mixed views among Republicans about the outsized influence Trump retains in the state.
Growth in solar power sparks a land rush
Developers scramble across Hudson Valley, Upstate to secure acreage for vast solar farms
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This 20 mw solar farm in rural Washington County is one of the largest so far in upstate NY.Rick Karlin/Times Union
SCHODACK Bill Lanford’s mailbox for the past year has been filling up with offers and solicitations to lease part of his family farm. The offers don’t come from housing developers though.
Instead they come from alternative energy companies that are scrambling to secure suitable properties for solar farms.
“I’ve been approached a dozen times at least,” says Lanford, a University at Albany physics professor who lives on the farm that his dad raised cattle on.