I try to attend the West Price Hill Community Council meeting every month. At one meeting, a resident stood up and raised many concerns about “VineBrook.” I learned that VineBrook was a large institutional investor in rental housing, that owns many rental properties in Cincinnati and Hamilton County. He complained about the failure of VineBrook […]
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Raising Cincinnati’s earnings tax a bad idea amid record inflation
This editorial was the second one submitted about Connected Communties. I wanted to continue on trying to unmask Connected Communities as an “ideological,” top down, zoning reform and not a policy that is based on grass roots “community engagement.” I wondered whether Columbus and Cleveland were enacting “upzoning” ordinances and sure enough, they were. That […]
I received a call one afternoon from a neighbor. She had been speaking with another neighbor about the meeting of the West Price Hill Community Council the night before. They discussed information presented at the meeting about “Connected Communities.” She wanted to know what this was all about? Even though I had been at the […]
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This Op-Ed was a second attempt at getting additional controls over the trust fund and the city’s spending. The recommendations were: 1) establish a permanent baseline for capital spending at the FY 2004 level; 2) the board of trustees should use its discretion over the amount it disburses to the to city so as to […]
I thought selling the Cincinnati Southern Railway was a bad idea for many reasons. A big reason in particular was all the compliance and oversight issues that have been created as a result of the sale. They include both the investment of the $1.6 billion as well as how the proceeds of those investments are […]
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