Stephen Starr
@stephenstarr
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Journalist | Read me @natgeotravel @BBCWorld @guardian etc Lived in Turkey til '17; Syria til '12, wrote book ⬇️ Gmail: kilruanesstar
Ohio/Istanbul/Nenagh
Joined June 2009
#Dayton #Ohio friends, join us for the 2026 Dayton Journalism Summit in January: https://t.co/2ergf1GTki
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Letter from our corner of Ohio. Unease, insecurity as shutdown continues. From @stephenstarr
theguardian.com
As tens of thousands of military personnel work without pay and others are furloughed, a local pantry sees its numbers increasing as restaurants are losing customers
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Haitian Springfield update from @stephenstarr Clock is ticking on a February deadline as businesses, Haitians struggle.
theguardian.com
Ohio city’s economic fortunes spiral and local businesses suffer as Haitians leave due to administration’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies
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Great piece by @stephenstarr on the burgeoning tariff impacts -- was delighted to participate. https://t.co/06rF0nPzMd
theguardian.com
Rural US towns reel as policies like tariffs cause global manufacturing companies to reconsider major investment projects
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Trump administration dashes hopes of anti-pollution plan for JD Vance’s home town https://t.co/9hxTLflTMw
theguardian.com
The $1.6bn Biden-era plan for a gas-powered blast furnace at a steel mill in Middletown, Ohio, is indefinitely on hold
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Ohio’s foreign-born population has grown by 30% over the last decade, helping to offset a decades-long population decline that was fueled by the offshoring of manufacturing and the Great Recession of 2008. @stephenstarr
theguardian.com
In places like Dayton, Ohio, and Indianapolis, blighted neighborhoods and economies have been transformed
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The 'least spectacular' of the Great Lakes is a devastating snow machine https://t.co/UaxPJjB7yG
nationalgeographic.com
Lake Erie's devastating lake-effect snow storms can smother communities with collapsed roofs and impassable roads. Could these storms get worse?
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US white supremacist groups emboldened with ‘ethnic and racial hatred’ as Trump stokes immigration fears https://t.co/T1Yh0QPBwu
theguardian.com
President’s anti-immigrant actions fuel a heartland battle between middle-ground Republicans and extremists
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#Syria: The Director of Endowments in #Damascus has requested the Minister of Endowments to issue a law banning public eating during #Ramadan, with penalties for violators, citing respect for those fasting. #Ramadan_2025
#Ramadan1446
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"Before I came to America in 1990, I had never even seen the sea." Abdullatif Ahmed recalls his journey from Yemen to working on the icy waters of the #GreatLakes, where Yemeni sailors shaped the region’s maritime history: https://t.co/WKhJRMNzoN
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“Up until the moment that I saw the video, I was under the impression that he had fought them back. Their whole spin on the story was fabricated.” https://t.co/PhDwqN5Cui
theguardian.com
New state law means police can ‘create a paywall’ up to $750 for access to crucial video evidence from officers’ cameras
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