How Do We Track Good Police Work?
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 26, 2004
Does the Cincinnati Police Department impose quotas on officers for arrests or traffic tickets? At first glance, a flier circulated in District 4 -- "2004 Beat Cop of the Month Rules" -- looks like
Cover Story: A Shaky Foundation
Demoralized city development bureaucrats forge ahead
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 26, 2004
Cincinnati's Department of Community Development and Planning has felt as unsteady this past year as some of the blighted buildings it's charged with redeveloping. The low point was Dec. 1, 2003, w
Cover Story: Don't Need Nothin' but Eating
Cook away, Dixie
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 5, 2004
Ranch dressing gives her secret powers. The kids she feeds at Emanuel Center call her Miss Dixie, but during the 20-year-one-week run of her Mount Adams restaurant, diners and staff just called he
Cover Story: Return and Retrieve
Part Saturday school, part support group
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 5, 2004
Around 9 a.m. Saturday morning, April 24, seven teenagers stumble bleary-eyed into Kimya Moyo's house. As they ingest the pop and chips they've brought or the bagels, fruit and water she offers,
Cincinnati Runs, Keeps Moving Forward
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 5, 2004
Running the Flying Pig Marathon May 2, I realized that whoever assigned Cincinnati that ridiculous flying pig symbol turned out to be a visionary. What other mascot offers such comic potential? At
Cover Story: Growing Roots and Wings
Building new schools, creating new communities in Cincinnati
0 Comments · Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Dream with us a little. Dream of a school -- your neighborhood school, the one you still attend, the one you attended years ago. Think of what you'd like there. A bookstore and coffee shop? Ad
News: East Beginning
East End will be among the first in revolutionary new school design at Cincinnati Public Schools
0 Comments · Wednesday, February 4, 2004
Like students back from summer vacation, they pair off and lag behind, talking excitedly about the new school, about holiday parties, about the numbing January cold. But these aren't students,
News: Backing Dean
Local supporters rally behind beleaguered candidate
0 Comments · Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Including a "Dean Wins Iowa!" card in the Dean Deck was a bit premature, but local supporters still believe former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean will oust George W. Bush and gain the White House in
News: Glass Houses
Competing theories define debate over crime
0 Comments · Wednesday, January 21, 2004
For want of a nail, the kingdom was lost. Can neighborhoods be lost for want of a repaired window? And does it matter who fixes that window? An old proverb traces the loss of a kingdom to the lo
Can Cincinnati Keep NIOSH?
0 Comments · Wednesday, January 14, 2004
What costs the city of Cincinnati more: keeping large employers or losing them? That's been the question since city council last year gave Convergys an incentive package worth $52 million, followed
