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Property Tax & Local Government July 2026

What Kinds of Taxes Do We Pay in Ohio?

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Rural-Urban Change June 2026

Who Has Air Conditioning in Ohio?

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Property Tax & Local Government June 2026

Who Taxes You in Ohio?

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Agriculture & Crops June 2026

How Much Farmland Is Ohio Losing?

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Biofuels & Renewable Fuels May 2026

Has the U.S.-Iran War Raised Prices for Ohio Soybean Producers?

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Energy & Land Use May 2026

Data Centers are Infrastructure

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Energy & Land Use April 2026

Data Centers: What Stays Local, What Doesn't

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Energy & Land Use March 2026

Fiscal Costs of Data Centers

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Energy & Land Use March 2026

Ohio's AI Boom: An Economist's Perspective on Data Centers

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Rural-Urban Change January 2026

The Rural-Urban Fringe Is Growing

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Property Tax & Local Government December 2025

Ohio Property Tax Reforms: An Initial View

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Biofuels & Renewable Fuels November 2025

Beyond Ethanol: Renewable Diesel and the Future of Biofuels

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Biofuels & Renewable Fuels October 2025

The Great Ethanol Boom—and Eventual Bust

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Biofuels & Renewable Fuels October 2025

The Paper Market That Determined the Future of Biofuels

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Biofuels & Renewable Fuels October 2025

How Gas Changed the Renewable Fuel Standard

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Agriculture & Crops October 2025

What Crops Does Ohio Grow?

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Rural-Urban Change September 2025

How Much of Ohio Has Urbanized?

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Rural-Urban Change September 2025

Where Is the Rural-Urban Fringe?

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Biofuels & Renewable Fuels August 2025

Welcome to the Swank Program Newsletter

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