Taxpayer lawsuit demands firing of Cincinnati Health Department official
A Cincinnati taxpayer is suing to force the firing of Cincinnati Health Department Finance Director Ronald Robinson, alleging he was hired illegally and represents “a flagrant waste of taxpayer...
View ArticleAgainst 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...
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