Your Voice Mahoning Valley grows from a belief that the people are not being heard and that solutions to problems they face are not receiving adequate attention. The project is part of a statewide effort begun in late 2015 as Ohio news organizations worked together, experimenting with new ways to represent the people of Ohio in the 2016 election. Backed by research conducted by the Jefferson Center , a non-partisan civic research organization in St. Paul, and polling by the Bliss Institute of