The pension fund for municipal workers is in trouble. The workers want City Council to pay for a one-time cash infusion, while council wants workers to accept benefit reductions. Qualls has proposed changing the Pension Board so two-thirds of its members would be independent and have no ties to City Hall, unlike now.  

Those of us who have frequented West Chester in the past to purchase geometrically shaped light fixtures know how welcoming the township can be. That's why we were surprised today to hear that leaders there are considering converting the township into a city, which would give them the ability to impose a 1 percent income tax. Critics say that will upset members of the Cincinnati Tea Party because they've never had to protest in their own neighborhood before.