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Union Terminal Owned by Cincinnati, Not Hamilton County

2012-02-15T22:47:00.002-05:00

Recently the Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC) informed the Hamilton County Commissioners that they will seek a massive countywide property tax levy for a $141 million repair of the Union Terminal building. The final cost will be nearly double that number when including 30 years of interest payments. In other words, this request would cost county residents over $250 million to fix a building that

Gosh, this is really funny, really sad

2012-02-15T17:32:00.001-05:00

In response to WLWT's questions to Jean Schmidt today about her ethics problems, Schmidt says: "I am honest and I am above reproach. What you're looking at is an individual who has been sanctioned by the elections commission for reckless disregard of the truth, and that's Mr. Krikorian. This is hilarious: * This woman was found herself to have lied four times by the Ohio Elections

Will the media ask the hard questions at the Streetcar groundbreaking Friday?

2012-02-14T23:06:00.000-05:00

Mayor Mallory, your budget numbers don't add up. Duke Energy says they won't move their lines at ratepayer expense. That's a $13 million gap in your budget numbers. Mayor Mallory, MSD says they won't pass the cost of moving sewer lines on to ratepayers. That's another $5-8 million funding gap. Mayor Mallory, if you don't move those utility lines, and rather build on top of them, that's a

What Friday's Streetcar groundbreaking really means

2012-02-14T15:58:00.000-05:00

City Manager Milton Dohoney and Mayor Mark Mallory are Friday convening a media event with Ray LaHood, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, to break ground for the long-delayed Streetcar. What does this mean for the Streetcar, what does this mean for the taxpayers, and what does this mean for the City? For starters, it means nothing. The Streetcar media event is just that -- a media event. No

Breaking: Museum Center to take over operations of National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

2012-02-14T13:15:00.001-05:00

Cincinnati's Museum Center has committed to taking over operations of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, according to this breaking story in the Cincinnati Enquirer that just went up on their web site. Importantly, finally, the Cincinnati media are covering what Cincinnati voters have known since John Pepper came with his hat in hand for government bailouts in 2006: From its

Absolutely packed house, overflow crowd for new drive for balanced budget amendment

2012-02-13T21:05:00.000-05:00

Crowd packs "The Farm" for kickoff of "Intervention" COAST's Dan Regenold and the Tea Party's George Bruenemann tonight launched an exciting new initiative -- one designed to work this time -- for a balanced budget in the USA. Called "Intervention" the program is intended to be shock treatment for the U. S. Congress and the President to enact, once and for all, a balanced budget amendment to the

Does CPS shortfall mean another attempt at a property tax hike? Of course it does.

2012-02-13T15:25:00.000-05:00

S.B. 5 again, anyone? The Daily Bellwether blog is the first to report that CPS' poor judgment of anticipated state and federal funding has left a $43 million budget gap for the 2012-2013 fiscal year. $43 million. That's not chump change. You could almost build 1/2 of a streetcar line with that. Read Bill Sloat's piece here. So, what do you think CPS will do to solve the funding gap? Yup,

L.M.F.A.O.

2012-02-13T09:03:00.000-05:00

No, not the pop group of the same name, but our reaction this morning to this from a COAST Board member: