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City slow to deliver grants

from Cincinnati Enquirer 1 week, 6 days ago

A year after deciding to have neighborhood grants administered in-house, Cincinnati City Council might return the task to the non-profit agency that had performed that job for years. Some community councils and neighborhood business districts have

City scales back initial streetcar spending

from Cincinnati Enquirer 2 weeks, 1 day ago

Cincinnati City Council on Monday scaled down a plan to spend $3.5 million for the first phase of a streetcar line, voting instead to spend $775,000. The smaller amount, city administration official told council's finance committee Monday, would be

Local Bloggers Step Up to Watchdog Local Government

from MediaShift: Idea Lab 3 weeks, 5 days ago

Traditionally, newspaper reporters were dispatched to cover the mundane proceedings of a local government in action: the city council meeting. But as the mainstream media grapples with its survival in the Internet era, the seats in the audience once

2 councilmen gave bonuses

from Cincinnati Enquirer 4 weeks ago

Cincinnati officials battled for hours last month over filling the city's $51 million budget hole, possibly laying off workers and cutting some employees' pay, yet two council members gave bonuses to aides. Jeff Berding and Chris Bortz, two of

City council trims e-reader purchase

from Cincinnati Enquirer 1 month ago

Cincinnati won't buy Kindle e-readers for all its elected officials after all - backlash over the new technology appears to have killed the idea a majority of council approved last month. Among the budget cuts voted for by five members of council after