Archives from 1999

Looking for an 'innovative approach' to placing children available for adoption, Hamilton County officials turn to self-marketing; will it work for 64 local kids?

Tags: News Feature, ohio, human trafficking

real life

Tags: News Feature, news, City Council, economy, budget, development, parking plan, Port Authority

Ujima Cinci-Bration festival organizers are applauding their efforts to keep downtown restaurants open during the festival, Friday through Sunday. But some restaurant managers say there is nothing

Tags: News Feature, news, City Council, Milton Dohoney, courts, development, Laure Quinlivan, parking plan, grocery store, food deserts

It's a fairly typical progression: Wait until your income can sustain it, then buy a house in a good neighborhood with the type of schools you want to send your children to. Move in, redecorate, sp

Tags: News Feature, election, news, Dave Yost, John Kasich, governor, state auditor, privatization, JobsOhio, Ed FitzGerald

Can mothers who work outside the home cut it? What a ridiculous question, some CityBeat readers said with disgust. Everyone knows moms have been boosting their numbers in the work force since Wor

Tags: News Feature, The Doors, Ray Manzarek

Continuing controversies over police shootings in Cincinnati are proof that the city -- or at least some of its media outlets -- has a short memory. The city's morning daily along with some of its

Tags: News Feature, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati arts, Cincinnati museums, Rachel Platow

A complete surprise. Totally unexpected. Not in keeping with the defendant's promise to settle the score for good. In the week that has passed since the plea bargain ended Hamilton County's cas

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"Excuse me, is that your little boy in the blue shirt?" The woman next to me has been talking to another mom and didn't see her son roll over sideways, twisting his neck because the tumbling teache

Tags: News Feature, news, Mark Mallory, firefighters, City Council, police, marijuana, jobs, medical marijuana, fracking, drugs

Cincinnati police are riding a familiar roller coaster: Will the two officers involved in the latest shooting death be cleared by investigations that are underway? If they are, will they then face d

Tags: News Feature, King Records, Cincinnati Museum Center, Hank Williams, James Brown

In Search of 'Good Glue'

Tags: News Feature, news, streetcar, Republicans, Milton Dohoney, economy, budget, jobs, unions, infant mortality

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

You're tired of racing every morning to get your kids to school and yourself to work. You're not as happy with your job as you ought to be. And you're frustrated because, if your household didn't re

Tags: News Feature, news, gay marriage, same-sex marriage, LGBT

More than a year after loud calls for public accountability, zoo officials still argue that using public funds doesn't make zoo records public

Tags: News Feature, news, terrorism, City Council, economy, budget, Cecil Thomas, Boston Marathon, sequestration

When Ciao Baby Cucina on Seventh Street downtown announced it was closing, no one tried to link the closing with the level of business in the area because the company reported that its financial p

Tags: News Feature, news, Republicans, Democrats, budget, health, John Kasich, Medicaid, Obamacare

Surely, no one ever would accuse Cincinnati Councilman Charles Winburn of flip-flopping on an issue. Nor, he has assured everyone, was it his intent to flip-flop when he introduced a proposal ear

Tags: News Feature, news, budget, taxes, John Kasich, Policy Matters Ohio

Victim's friends point to drugs and 'Greek lifestyle' while Sigma Phi Epsilon investigates circumstances of death

Tags: News Feature, The National

These parents would deny that they'd ever consider appearing on the Jerry Springer Show. But I wouldn't believe them. From what I've seen, they've been clamoring to tell all to everyone about how

Tags: News Feature, Hamilton County, poverty