Against the wind: Former Bengal Doug Pelfrey kicks for a win in affordable...
Long before he kicked 153 field goals in the NFL, Doug Pelfrey failed to win the starting job as place kicker for his freshman football team at Scott High School in Taylor Mill. So his dad sent Pelfrey...
View ArticleCurve busters: Retirement pay is rising for top Tri-State superintendents
Corporate shareholders wouldn’t think twice about providing the right CEO with a fancy car, expense account and super-sized retirement plan. But the people who vote for school levies have a reputation...
View ArticleProcter & Gamble's return to sales growth boosts pay for top executives
Procter & Gamble Co. doubled up the bonus pool for its top executives this year, as the company ended a multi-year streak of lackluster sales growth and P&G’s stock price soared to an all-time...
View ArticleNew life for EBTH? Potential buyer found for online auction house
A potential buyer has emerged for the assets of Everything but the House, but it’s still too early to say whether that will be enough to save hundreds of jobs at the online auction company that entered...
View ArticleNew owner plans up to $500K in upgrades to Clifton Market
The new owner of Clifton Market plans to invest up to $500,000 in the Ludlow Avenue grocery store and double employment to about 60 in the next six months.“We’re all in,” said Gurmukh Singh, a Clifton...
View ArticleConcern over Cincinnati tax abatement policy could result in big changes for...
John Tree calls his thriving vegetable patch one of Cincinnati’s “best-kept secrets” on his rustic lot in Mt. Auburn.But the secret is out on his city view. Developers are snapping up lots all around...
View ArticleFifth Third shooting: Authentic, caring response helped bank avoid controversy
Watch our half-hour special, Fifth Third Shooting: One Year Later on Friday at 7 p.m. on 9 On Your Side. In its annual report to shareholders this year, Fifth Third Bancorp. warned investors that...
View ArticleWhat will replace the empty Imax at Newport on the Levee?
Newport on the Levee could get a grand new entrance at the end of Monmouth Street along with a hotel and performance venue in the long-dormant Imax theater space, based on a rendering submitted...
View Article'We're doing it for the next generation': P&G ads on racial diversity...
Dr. Littisha Bates is a tenured Associate Professor of Sociology who won the 2016 Dean’s Award for Faculty Excellence at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Arts & Sciences. But those...
View ArticleAre Indian Hill residents hogging a tax break intended for farmers?
Terry Diefenbacher is a Colerain Township farmer whose family toiled in the soil for three generations.David Warner owns an Indian Hill mansion surrounded by 60 acres of woods.Jeff Eichorn is a...
View ArticleOhio House GOP leader 'open' to statute of limitations reform after I-Team...
The author of a 2006 bill that reformed Ohio’s civil statute of limitations for child sex abuse wants to revise the law again after reviewing materials uncovered in the I-Team’s three-month...
View ArticleFC Cincinnati wins City Hall skirmish over West End church
The fight to save Cincinnati’s second-oldest synagogue from the wrecking ball ended with a whimper last month when the city’s Historic Conservation Board declined to designate the building a local...
View ArticleKing of Kenwood: Will election controversy leave a mark on Sycamore Township?
Sycamore Township Trustee Tom Weidman wasn’t on the ballot in November, but that didn’t keep Tom James from campaigning against him.“I ran on him not being in charge anymore,” James said. “I think...
View ArticleFederated legacy: The retail giant that turned into Macy's Inc. casts a long...
Macy’s Inc. gave Cincinnati a stick Tuesday. Here’s the carrot.“(The) headquarters building Downtown will be a very compelling carrot to attract another corporate headquarters or major office...
View ArticleCincinnati Bell, AK Steel bosses eligible for $78 million in golden parachute...
Two corporate takeovers have produced 10 new “golden parachutes” for some of Cincinnati’s highest-paid executives. Cincinnati Bell Inc. and AK Steel Holding Corp. disclosed the severance packages in...
View ArticleCincinnati will lose $1.4 million in annual tax revenue when Macy's closes...
The city of Cincinnati expects to lose $1.4 million in annual tax revenue when Macy’s relocates headquarters jobs from downtown to Springdale this year. But the city might also recover $151,081 in tax...
View ArticleCincinnati's most endangered malls: An I-Team analysis compares the viability...
Kathy Schwartz felt the impact when Sears closed its Northgate Mall store in 2018. Revenue plunged 25 percent the following year at Kathy’s Happy Organs and Pianos, a Northgate tenant for 18...
View ArticleHow Ohio's second-biggest mall became an Amazon parking lot
Cincinnati’s most infamous mall suffered one more indignity this month when Forest Park inspectors converged on Forest Fair Village to document dozens of code violations and investigate the use of the...
View ArticleEPA settles more than a decade of pollution claims against Zimmer power plant...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a consent decree to settle more than a decade of pollution violations at the William H. Zimmer Power Station in Moscow, Ohio, raising new questions...
View ArticleDirty Dining 2020: How corporate kitchens compare to restaurants in safety,...
It’s a perk that most American workers do not enjoy: An on-site cafeteria where the company feeds you breakfast, lunch or dinner. But workers at Prysmian Group's North American headquarters in Highland...
View ArticleOhio close to securing SBA 'disaster loan' designation for companies harmed...
More than 1,400 Ohio companies now have their chance to seek disaster loans to survive the coronavirus outbreak that has closed bars, restaurants, stores and schools nationwide.The U.S. Small Business...
View ArticleG.E. Aviation cutting thousands of jobs in COVID-19 response
G.E. Aviation is cutting more than 2,500 U.S. jobs as it tries to cope with the airline industry’s downturn in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic.The company announced a 10% reduction in its U.S....
View ArticleThe COVID-19 Economy: Local experts predict at least 18 months of malaise
Before the COVID 19 crisis emerged, economists were predicting about 2 percent growth for the local economy in 2020 and job growth up to 1.5 percent. Now, they’re saying it will be at least 18 months...
View Article'Dark Waters' attorney Rob Bilott works on sequel with class action lawsuit...
Jeff Hermes worked for two decades as an airport fireman, spraying acres of aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) to suffocate flames from jet engine fuel. He is convinced that exposure led to his 2016...
View ArticleHow COVID-19 is impacting Cincinnati's startup scene
Jeff Boyle was about to harvest a bumper crop of cash at 80 Acres Farms in Hamilton last month. Then the coronavirus infected Wall Street.The high-tech farming startup, which uses hydroponics and...
View ArticleHit hard by COVID-19, Batesville answers call for more hospital beds
Hospital bed maker Hill-Rom Co. is adding 200 jobs at its Batesville plant as hospitals all over the country brace for a sudden influx of patients needing care for COVID-19. The expansion will increase...
View ArticlePaycheck Protection borrowers stressed in loan limbo
When the money ran out in round one of the Paycheck Protection Program, Over-the-Rhine’s Know Theatre joined the crowded pool of cash-strapped companies in PPP loan limbo.PPP is part of the CARES Act,...
View ArticleUnemployment fraud could cost Ohioans $460 million this year
Cydney Wayne has been trying for weeks to get Pandemic Unemployment Assistance for the roughly 10 weeks her Montgomery hair salon was shut down due to coronavirus.“Pretty much every PUA worker I’ve...
View ArticleEastgate Mall foreclosure looms. How many will follow?
Eastgate Mall is headed to foreclosure, one of Greater Cincinnati’s first commercial real estate casualties during the COVID-19 pandemic.The mall’s owner, CBL Properties of Chattanooga, Tenn., told...
View ArticleNorth Carolina court says Cincinnati Financial must cover pandemic losses
A North Carolina judge has ruled against Cincinnati Financial Corp. in a case involving 16 restaurants that claimed the insurance company improperly rejected their claims for business-interruption...
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