News Feature Archives

Rail plans and planners clashing over the type of trains to use, where to put them and whether they should be used at all

Tags: News Feature, Roxanne Qualls, news, streetcar, environment, economy, budget, energy, jobs, Bill Seitz, John Kasich

A Northern Kentucky group has a plan for a Sky Loop system that it argues would complement light-rail plans, too. The Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system known as Sky Loop is being pushed by Forw

Tags: News Feature, Fountain Square, Midpoint Music Festival, PNC Music Series

No free weekend days. And no public disclosure of 106 salaries that will be paid by Hamilton County taxpayers at the Cincinnati Zoo. These are among the highlights of a contract that has been agree

Tags: News Feature, Roxanne Qualls, news, streetcar, City Council, Milton Dohoney, budget

The March 19 fatal shooting of Michael Carpenter by Cincinnati police officers has some citizens calling for a Justice Department investigation, while the media is characterizing the shooting as ano

Tags: News Feature, election, news, alcohol, environment, economy, Over-the-Rhine, budget, energy, jobs, Medicaid, pollution

Cincinnati's stance on gay rights could mean roadblock for group's quest for Olympic bid

Tags: News Feature, Know Theatre, New Edgecliff Theatre, Northern Kentucky University, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Covedale Center

The Cincinnati Federation of Teachers (CFT) and the school district's administrators are butting heads over a proposal to cut a district program that evaluates and assists teachers who need to im

Tags: News Feature, news, Mark Mallory, streetcar, mayor, economy, guns, budget, John Kasich, Medicaid, gun violence, Ohio House

Officials from Cincinnati, Florence and Boone County sealed a deal on March 12 for water service to cross the river from Cincinnati to Northern Kentucky. Last year, Florence and Boone County determ

Tags: News Feature, election, news, parking, economy, Tim Burke, budget, Board of Elections, parking plan, referendum, John Curp

'White flight,' lack of upscale housing and economic imbalance pose obstacles in effort to stabilize Hamilton County's declining population

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A local gay activist and artist says it's time for Cincinnati-area gays and lesbians to build community among themselves so they will be able to build community with straight people. Toward that

Tags: News Feature, Know Theatre, Cincinnati Fringe Festival

Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) officials have decided to get into the charter schools business. At March 8 meeting the High Quality Schools Task Force, a school board committee approved a draft po

Tags: News Feature, education, news, streetcar, City Council, Milton Dohoney, economy, budget, Cecil Thomas, Ohio House, sex education

Janice Jackson is the owner of Mecca's Calling, a clothing store in Over-the-Rhine. An African-American woman who also is a Muslim, Jackson said she thought there was a market in Over-the-Rhine f

Tags: News Feature, news, abortion, Republicans, sex, Planned Parenthood, women's health, contraceptives, Ohio House

It is harder to recant court testimony than convicted felon Brian Prichard of Springfield Township had hoped. Prichard, found guilty in connection with the 1994 shooting death of Larry Kincer, has

Tags: News Feature, Know Theatre, Cincinnati theater, Covedale Center for the Performi, Legally Blonde

Chuck Collins loves skunks. He's downright giddy when describing their many qualities, saying that they have great personalities, are sweet, lovable, intelligent and easily litter box trained -- as

Tags: News Feature, The National, MusicNOW, Bryce Dessner, Glen Hansard, Tinariwen

Welfare reform critics charge that instead of going from welfare to work, the poor are being driven further into hardship

Tags: News Feature, Jimmy Fallon, HBO, LL Cool J, Daniel Wright, America’s Best Bites, Jay Leno

Drop Inn shelter supporters refuse to budge, citing 'prejudice' that would force them out and prevent relocation

Tags: News Feature, news, environment, economy, Music Hall, budget, energy, Bill Seitz, privatization

Not all of the Republican supporters who got invitations to a fund-raiser from Hamilton County Commissioner Bob Bedinghaus were amused by the mailing, which was labeled "Passport to the West Side

Tags: News Feature, news, streetcar, John Cranley, Milton Dohoney, economy, budget, John Deatrick

Now in its final stages of applying for donations by payroll deductions at City Hall, Community Shares claims that choice helps everyone

Tags: News Feature, Magnolia Mountain, Cincinnati music, Jake Speed & the Freddies, The Turkeys, Shiny & the Spoon, Cincinnati concerts, Comet Bluegrass All-Stars, The Cliftones, Tunes & Blooms, Shiny Old Soul

Inspector's indictment on bribery charge is latest image problem for emissions testing program

Tags: News Feature, news, discrimination, LGBT, St. Patrick's Day Parade

Cincinnati City Councilman Todd Portune's multiphase commuter rail line proposal is meeting some resistance from the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Cou

Tags: News Feature, news, parking, court, City Council, budget, Robert Winkler, Chris Seelbach, P.G. Sittenfeld, LGBT, parking plan

At a Jan. 30 meeting of the Cincinnati Democratic Committee, members could not agree on whether to get behind Build Cincinnati, the bipartisan group that has been working on a city charter amendment

Tags: News Feature, education, news, Mark Mallory, parking, economy, budget, John Kasich, Chris Seelbach, P.G. Sittenfeld, parking plan