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Groups aim to save Delta Queen By Cliff Radel • [email protected] • May 1, 2009 http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090501/NEWS01/905020348/1055/NEWS If the city of Chattanooga has its way, the Delta Queen will never again come round the bend in the Ohio River at Cincinnati.

We're SAVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

^gasp!!! Blasphemy!!!

I think those tower cranes would look pretty cool on the riverfront. All those solar panels and windmills would add a 21st century look to it too! If they were to Actually incorporate that into the final design.

Hamilton County unveils new development strategy Business Courier of Cincinnati http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2009/04/27/daily10.html Hamilton County is preparing to roll out a new, more efficient development process called “Build Hamilton County” to streamline and speed up development projects in the county. The effort will make it easier to get projects done and is part of the county’s broader economic recovery strategy, according to a news release issued by Hamilton County Commissioner David Pepper’s office. The county has been working internally for the past year to have the new process ready to launch by midsummer.

So what's the big deal? How credible is that source anyway? Is that Portland's version of our Beacon? Daily readership of what.......22 people? Looking at Portland's ridership numbers, it doesn't seem to be a problem that is keeping people from riding. DanB, your slippin!! :-D That sounds like a very Happ-ish argument or fear!

One Word!...............BEAST! I've been watching this guy for some time and I knoooow Carson can't wait!

The Cambrian Building is awesome! Nice Shots!

I didn't see this rendering before! Was this released with the last batch?

No real news, but very good ideas from Randy regarding the Glenway Crossing complex! Dead retail space becoming more prevalent, but we’re still building http://www.urbancincy.com/2009/04/dead-retail-space-becoming-more.html

Coming soon to Vernonville.... http://www.building-cincinnati.com/2009/04/coming-soon-to-vernonville.html

Q1 profits rise sharply at Cheviot The Enquirer • April 24, 2009 http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090424/BIZ01/304240080/1076/BIZ Cheviot Financial Corp reported first quarter profits more than tripled to $293,000 largely due to lower lending costs from a year ago. The parent of Cheviot Savings Bank said net interest income rose 15.9 percent to almost $2.5 million, while other income nearly quintupled to $231,000. General, administrative and other costs rose 9.5 percent to almost $2 million and the company set aside $337,000 to cover potential losses on loans, a 28.1 percent increase from the same period last year. Shares in Cheviot, which has six branches in Hamilton County, closed at $7.31, up 66 cents or 10 percent.

Price Hill Wins the Green City Challenge Contributed By Kara Ray | Price Hill Will http://rodeo.cincinnati.com/getlocal/gpstory.aspx?id=100197&sid=146945 In 2008, Price Hill challenged all other city neighborhoods of Cincinnati to see which community is the greenest. Price Hill teamed up with Vice Mayor Crowley and the City of Cincinnati’s Office of Environmental Quality to create a contest to prove our assertion that we are the greenest neighborhood in Cincinnati. We were right. Click on link for article.

Citizens On Patrol Tag Vandalism In Westwood Reported by: Adam Marshall Last Update: 4/25 2:06 am They train hard and patrol even harder, and no, we’re not talking about police. The long, voluntary hours recently paid off for the Citizens On Patrol in Westwood. 'Good guys' loiter to halt troublemakers By Sharon Coolidge • [email protected] • April 26, 2009 http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20090426/NEWS01/904270326/ WESTWOOD - Brian Lee would drive through this West Side neighborhood - Cincinnati's largest - on warm summer evenings and get angry at large groups loitering on certain corners. They were loud and rowdy, seemed to be engaged in covert drug deals, and might have been toting guns.

Fox anchor grounded in Cincinnati By John Eckberg • [email protected] • April 24, 2009 http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20090424/BIZ01/304240025/ Elder grad and Fox News co-anchor Bill Hemmer can’t help himself. Despite the 24/7 demands of leading a top-ranked morning cable news show – America’s Newsroom on Fox News from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. weekdays – Hemmer, based in Manhattan, still gets back to town a couple of times a year. And when he does, it’s a beeline to Skyline Chili. It happened again last month before his annual NCAA basketball reunion with other 1983 Elder grads. Hemmer got his chili, even before he stopped home to say hello to Mom and Dad. “Always the same,” Hemmer said, “three-way, regular, two bowls of oyster crackers, largest glass of water they have – twist of lemon. Oval plate pointing at me.” Hemmer can afford a home in tony Sag Harbor on Long Island for weekend escapes, keep a place in the heart of lower Manhattan in Gramercy Park – just off Park Avenue South – but the guy will never shake Cincinnati. The path that Hemmer has taken to the peak of the American TV news industry – one of only a handful of anchors in the rarified air of international cable news shows – was no charted path. It was a long and twisting trip that offers plenty of lessons about building a career in a challenging, competitive and crowded field. “Some people have an appeal that they just exude,” said Dennis Janson, sports anchor at WCPO-TV (Channel 9), and a longtime Hemmer mentor and friend. “They don’t have any kind of predetermined path. They think, oh, this looks like fun and they zigzag their way to the top. On the way, they stay true to friends and family and they stay true to themselves. I always kid George Clooney that his overnight success only took 14 years.” Janson said. Today, former weekend sports anchor Hemmer is flying high in the ratings. In this region, he has 8,000 households tuning in daily – compared to 3,000 households watching CNN and 3,000 households watching MSNBC in the same time slot. It is no surprise that Hemmer has a grip on Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. He started out in backroom production at WLWT-TV (Channel 5) in the early 1980s, and after six months, came to WCPO-9 to be the weekend sports anchor. He left in 1995 to be a CNN anchor and correspondent. What is surprising about Hemmer is the vitality of his national ratings: America’s Newsroom each day reaches 1.44 million households – double CNN’s 689,000 households and triple MSNBC’s 422,000 households, according to a March report from Nielsen Media Research. “That he’s able to draw that many households on a cable network at that hour, well, it’s no small achievement,” said Brad Adgate, senior vice president of research at Horizon Media, a media buying agency based in Manhattan. “He’s up against a lot of competition.” When things go right at a national cable network, said Peter Sealey, professor of marketing at the Peter Drucker Graduate Management School at the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles, it’s almost always because of the appeal of the anchors. “Television is an incredibly intimate medium. The likeability factor is critical,” he said. “Personalities are the tent poles and cable channels really need those tent poles. When you have a hit, it drags the rest of the schedule right along with it.” One other important dynamic comes into play at cable networks: money. The higher the rating, the higher the price tag to advertise on the show. “Advertising is totally audience dependent at a cost per thousand (viewers),” Sealey said. “There may be a program with one million viewers. Well, the program with two million viewers gets twice the advertising rate. It’s a mathematical certainty.” Hemmer, in a recent telephone interview, takes it in stride. “Fox is a special place,” Hemmer said one recent morning after wrapping up his newscast. “We have fewer people, and less staff challenges us to work smarter, faster than our competition. You hit the door in the morning and if you’re not going 110 mph, you’ll be left behind.” Not being left behind has long been Hemmer’s trademark, according to Mike Irwin, a former defensive teammate on the 1983 Elder Panthers. Hemmer sure didn’t have the lightning speed needed to chase anybody down when he was a strong safety at Elder with 22 on his back, Irwin remembered. What he lacked in speed he made up for in heart. “Billy has just always had it. His personality draws people to him,” said Irwin, today a high school football coach and history teacher at Bishop Ready High School in Columbus. “Fame and fortune hasn’t changed him one bit.” Hemmer recalled two pivot points in his career: the first was while a student at Miami University, he traveled to study in Luxembourg. That foreign experience led him in 1992-93 to take a trip around the world during a year-long sabbatical from WCPO. Who walks away from a coveted sports anchor spot in a top 25 market to spend a year in blue jeans sleeping in hostels? Nobody. But Hemmer did and actually used his time away from work to work. “Hemmer shot and edited stories on the road and put together an hour special,” Janson said. “It was captivating. Somebody at CNN got wind of it.” And before long Hemmer had a job at Atlanta’s CNN headquarters. Janson cautioned him: “I told him to exact a guarantee so that he wouldn’t be tethered to the anchor desk.” Hemmer became known as the “chad lad” for his coverage of the 2000 presidential election controversy over Florida’s vote tabulating. That’s ancient history, though, as Hemmer has settled into Fox, a network long criticized as being a mouthpiece for conservative causes and politicians. But Hemmer says he and co-anchor Megyn Kelly do not shape reports. “We size it up and shoot it down the middle,” he said, acknowledging that others in the evening line-up such as Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck “cover it with an angle.” He justified coverage of recent anti-Obama Tea Bag demonstrations, events that Fox touted. Look at the thousands of people involved, Hemmer said. “When 4,000 people show up at Fountain Square and a week later another 5,000 show up in Orlando, well, we are going to put that on TV,” Hemmer said. And he’s no ideologue about President Barack Obama. “I think very soon the wind and economy will be at his back,” Hemmer said. “I have always felt that a president gets too much credit when economy is going well and too much blame when the economy is going bad.” Hemmer’s career hasn’t always been up, up and away. It took a dip in 2004 when he was released from a morning news show at CNN. He didn’t stay down for long. About a year later, he left CNN altogether for noon show at Fox. By February 2007, he was back on the air in the morning at Fox and soaring, too. That’s typical for a west side kid, says childhood pal Irwin. Nobody is going to keep a guy like Hemmer down for long. “Elder always gets that scrappy westsider,” Irwin said, “A kid like Hems, a kid who just overachieves.”

Scout cleans up Cheviot cemetery By Kurt Backscheider • [email protected] • April 23, 2009 http://communitypress.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/C2/20090423/NEWS/904230323/ Travis Nieman said he wanted his Eagle Scout project to be memorable. Considering the amount of time and effort he's put into it, the La Salle High School sophomore probably will never forget what he did for his community service project. "I wanted to do something big that I would remember," said Nieman, a Green Township resident. "And I also wanted it to be something I could do to give back."

You got my vote!

Yup, copy that!!

^Classy joint!

America's Most Dangerous Cities Zack O'Malley Greenburg, 04.23.09, 6:00 PM ET In March 2008, Kwame Kilpatrick was charged with eight felonies, including perjury and obstruction of justice. In August, he violated his bail agreement and was thrown in jail. His actions were deplorable for anybody, but Kilpatrick was no Average Joe--he was the mayor of Detroit. Unfortunately for the Motor City, Kilpatrick, 38, is just one ripple in the area's sea of crime. Detroit is the worst offender on our list of America's most dangerous cities, thanks to a staggering rate of 1,220 violent crimes committed per 100,000 people... http://finance.yahoo.com/real-estate/article/106978/America's-Most-Dangerous-Cities The LIST http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/23/most-dangerous-cities-lifestyle-real-estate-dangerous-american-cities_slide_2.html?thisspeed=25000

They should make an offer to Tata and try and get the first American Assembly Plant for the new Nanos.

WTF?

Mt Hope is one of many hidden treasures in that area! Redevelopment will be key in the coming years and dare I say,..........streetcar extention?? Price Hill was built and designed around the original streetcar system. It could be a very important missing link!! We will have to see what happens, but I do like the focal point of this being the old incline, albeit with a Cranley connection.

I remember hearing about that lead marker from our history classes in high school. Cool info, fellas!

I haven't found an actual forclosure thread so I thought this might do. Feel free to move. Cincinnati has fewest foreclosures in Ohio Business Courier of Cincinnati While residential foreclosures in Ohio remain high, Cincinnati has the fewest of any urban area in the state for the first quarter, according to a report from RealtyTrac Inc. Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac, which compiles and sells foreclosure data, reported Wednesday that the Cincinnati metro area had one foreclosure for every 198 homes, ranking it 76th among more than 200 cities. Among Ohio metro areas, according to RealtyTrac: Canton-Massillon was 44th on the list (one of every 118 homes in some stage of foreclosure); Toledo, 46th, one of every 124; Columbus, 49th, one of every 127; Cleveland, 55th, one of every 134; Dayton, 64th, one of every 166; and Akron, 72nd, one of every 187. ... http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2009/04/20/daily40.html