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OH Sues Drugmakers Over Opioid Crisis
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In this September 1980 file photo, a Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. coke plant is wreathed in smoke and steam in Struthers, Ohio. Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich has made it his mission to send Ohio's 'Rust Belt' label to the scrap heap of history, but it's been repeated and entrenched over more than 30 years since the steel industry's devastation in the 1970s and 1980s by foreign competition and environmental regulation, leaving behind abandoned, rusting mills and unemployment.
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