Archives from 2001

This fall, the unsuccessful campaign to bring the Olympics to Cincinnati ran out of money. After Nick Vehr, president of Cincinnati 2012 Inc. the organization leading the effort, spent $5.5 million

Tags: News Feature, MidPoint Music Festival, MPMF

There's a family planning center in my neighborhood that performs abortions. Every Saturday morning, protesters appear to wave poster-size pictures of aborted fetuses and to yell slogans to the gene

Both the Ohio and Michigan constitutions require the state -- not local governments -- pay for public schools. In a case that closely resembled DeRolph v. State of Ohio, the Michigan Supreme Court

The Center for Public Integrity (CPI), a government watchdog, has examined conflicts of interest between the public and private lives of state lawmakers since 1998. In their ongoing report, "50 Sta

Tags: News Feature, David Pepper, Ohio General Assembly, Pinterest, startups, Ohio Democratic Party, Cleveland Browns

The once integral role the government played in developing the Internet has shrunken dramatically. Mainstream acceptance and commercialization have greatly expanded the roles of the private sector a

Tags: News Feature, Planned Parenthood, Hamilton County Commissioners, Ferguson, Ohio Board of Education

Proponents of legalizing the carrying of concealed weapons generally feel that such laws deter crime and, in cases when the deterrent effect doesn't kick in, enable citizens to defend themselves and

Tags: News Feature, streetcar, Planned Parenthood, Sen. Sherrod Brown, Gov. John Kasich, Ohio House, Ed FitzGerald, OTR, Ebola

Every 10 years, legislators in most states redraw the political map of America to reflect the population changes quantified in the new census. The majority party in each state creates new federal a

The purpose of nearly any competition is to determine the best or, in some cases, the luckiest individual or team from a field of competitors. To isolate the skill being tested, rules prevent compet

Tags: News Feature, immigration, The Banks, Skyline, LumenoCity

The combustion in a perfect gasoline-powered engine would produce only water and nitrogen -- harmless byproducts -- and carbon dioxide. In reality, no such engine exists, and even the most sophistic

Tags: News Feature, street car, Hobby Lobby, ISIS

Zipping around the Internet and plucking products from the collectively massive inventory offered by thousands of retailers around the world is easier, faster and usually cheaper than fighting throu

Tags: News Feature, Contemporary Arts Center, performance art

On May 20, 2000, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled for the second time that the state's education finance system is unconstitutional. The court set a June 15, 2001 deadline for lawmakers to remedy the pr

Tags: News Feature, Know Theatre, Ensemble Theatre, Aronoff Center, Cincinnati Landmark Productions, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Carnegie Center

The prosperity of the past few years has all but erased from our minds the inherently cyclical nature of the economy. But cyclical it is, and a general slowing of the economy will eventually, certa