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Mercy to build new west-side hospital BY KURT BACKSCHEIDER | KBACKS [email protected] http://news.communitypress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080612/NEWS/806120431/1067/RSS1103 WESTWOOD - Mercy Health Partners announced plans to close its hospitals in Western Hills and Mt. Airy. The board of directors of Mercy Health Partners voted earlier this month to build a new hospital on the west side, combining the services of Mercy Hospital Western Hills and Mercy Hospital Mt. Airy into one facility. Click link for article.

^Agree!

How ironic is that? I had to wipe my monitor off of the MD, I had been drinking.

LOL! TaDa!! Gas prices accelerate need for Cincinnati, region to rethink mass transit http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2008/06/16/story2.html?b=1213588800^1650345

Another local one! Gas prices accelerate need for Cincinnati, region to rethink mass transit Business Courier of Cincinnati - by Lucy May Senior Staff Reporter http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2008/06/16/story2.html?b=1213588800^1650345 Gas was a mere $1.42 a gallon back in 2002 when Hamilton County residents overwhelmingly rejected a sales tax increase to expand bus service and build a light rail system. But with local drivers paying $4 a gallon for regular unleaded these days, transit advocates wonder whether expanded mass transit's time has come. ..........

Can Mass Transit Rescue America? With Record-High Gas Prices, Good Public Transit May Be the Ultimate Answer http://abcnews.go.com/Business/PainAtThePump/story?id=5058810&page=1

Unique!

Haha, Modern day Glenway was called Bridgetown Rd. What a find!!

I was going to say that too. I'm going to sound like an urban snob, but that's too much green...and surface parking. Hey, at least it will be viable businesses!!!

Delhi Road plan due to trustees next month BY HEIDI FALLON | [email protected] More safety features, better access and a more inviting entrance to Delhi Township Park all will be among the recommendations for a Delhi Road improvement project. About two dozen residents and township officials attended a June 10 project update by JMA engineering consultants. Township trustees hired JMA to complete the comprehensive analysis of the pike. The firm will present its final study and recommendations to trustees in July. "The study is going well and quickly," said Bill McCormick, JMA engineer. "We have a September deadline we have to meet in order to apply for the grant to fund the project." Read full article here: http://news.communitypress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080610/NEWS/806100362/1086/RSS1107

Ford workers caught by industry shift Transmission assembly to end Friday at Batavia plant BY MIKE BOYER | [email protected] BATAVIA - Transmission assembly ends Friday at Ford Motor Co.'s sprawling plant off Ohio 32 east of here, the latest victim of the downsizing under way among US automakers. The 28-year-old plant, once Clermont County's largest employer with more than 2,600 workers, is a shadow of what it once was. About 780 hourly and management employees remain. That number will drop by about 200 at the end of this week when assembly operations cease... http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080612/BIZ/806120336/1076

The Central is in a world of thier own!!!

I know we suck right now, but thier is still alot of games to play!! Congrats Griff!! Griffey gets big welcome Fans pay tribute to Junior - and Joe Nuxhall, too http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080611/SPT04/806110366/1062/SPT

It's Cyclones day in Cincinnati It's Cincinnati Cyclones Championship Day in Cincinnati. Mayor Mark Mallory this afternoon presented a proclamation to coach Chuck Weber, who said he and the team were proud to represent Cincinnati during their travels throughout the United States and Canada. The team won the Kelly Cup last week for the first time ever. The mayor said "it has been awhile since we've had a major championship in Cincinnati. You have provided us with that opportunity." Full article athttp://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20080611/SPT/306100016/

Well, that's something!

Ironic how things boom here as the country bust!! Every time so far in the last 80+ years. :wink:

Nice work randy! I love these OTR threads, but they were beginning to take on a mind of thier own!!! Much better to navigate now.

Very good documentary which I watched last weel on Fox news. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,361061,00.html Interesting just how corrupt some of our elected officials really are. How can the Ethics Committee not see anything wrong with some of these guys.

Southwest Ohio Allocations Area state capital budget projects Cincinnati Museum Center $2.5 million Riverfront Park $2 million Cincinnati Art Museum $1.5 million Cincinnati Zoo $1.5 million Music Hall $1.1 million American Red Cross facility – Cincinnati $1 million Little Miami Trail Extension – Hamilton County Park District $1 million Sharonville Convention Center $1 million Greentree Health Science Academy, Sinclair Community College $1 million National Underground Railroad Freedom Center $850,000 Voice of America Museum, Butler County $500,000 Green Township Legacy Place Park $500,000 Colerain Township Park $500,000 Newtown Indian Artifact Museum $300,000 New Richmond Park, Clermont County $300,000 Clifton Cultural Arts Center $250,000 Cincinnati Ballet $250,000 Beckett Park improvements, West Chester, Butler County $250,000 Mariemont – Women’s Cultural Arts Center $220,000 First Step Home, (Dept. of Alcohol & Drug Addiction Services) $200,000 BalletTech $200,000 Wyoming City Regional Park $200,000 Hebrew Union College Archives $185,000 Blue Ash City Conference Center (Cincinnati State) $150,000 Forest Park Health Care Facility $150,000 Health Care Connection – Lincoln Heights $150,000 Beech Acres $125,000 People Working Cooperatively $120,000 Covedale Theatre $100,000 Addyston Boat Ramp $100,000 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals $100,000 Rivers Edge Amphitheater, Butler County $100,000 Monroe Veterans Memorial Park, Butler County $100,000 Rivers Edge Bikeway, Butler County $100,000 Springboro Park improvements, Warren County $100,000 Ault Park improvements $75,000 Madeira Historical Society/Miller House $60,000 Forest Park homeland security facility $50,000 Mohawk Veterans’ Memorial $15,000 UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI Basic Renovations $10.7 million Medical Science Building Renovation and Expansion $26.4 million Barrett Cancer Center $1.5 million Raymond Walters Renovations $501,195 Raymond Walters New Building $1.58 million Renovations, Clermont County $1.07 million Consolidated Communication Project of Clermont County $400,000 CINCINNATI STATE TECHNICAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE Basic Renovations $1.25 million Classroom Upgrade Project $270,000 Lot C Parking Lot $250,000 Ceiling Replacement $75,000 Electrical Surge Protection $100,000 Campus Signage $75,000 Window and Garage Doors $175,659 Window Replacement $100,000 MIAMI UNIVERSITY Basic renovations, Oxford $5.61 million Basic renovations, Hamilton $686,759 Basic renovations, Middletown $588,815 Upham Hall North Wing Rehabilitation $3.6 million Academic and administrative projects $2.44 million Laws Hall Rehabilitation $6.25 million Western Steam Distribution Project $1.5 million COUNTY TOTALS Butler County total (includes Miami University) $22.51 million Clermont County total (includes University of Cincinnati) $2.37 million Hamilton County total (includes UC and Cincinnati State) $59.62 million Warren County total S1.1 million

Could maybe be merged with some other threads, but this is something which I personally don't feel is right. In an ecomomy where our states are projected to be broke by '09,..... I think this is wasted resources which ultimately could be the reason we may be paying much higher taxes within the coming years. (Rep or Dem controlled) This Legacy Place Park is going to be within a 1/2 mile from my house, and even though I believe the park itself will be a benefit to the community----- I don't feel the government should be forking the bill from a federal (state) side of the things. I felt the developer should get stuck with this. Either way thier are many projects throughout the state that get this WASTED money which often leads to larger financial gains for local politicians and thier pet projects. Pork projects? Supporters disagree BY CLIFF RADEL AND STEVE KEMME | [email protected] AND [email protected] http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20080611/NEWS01/306110104/ Eighty-five million dollars could be coming home to Southwest Ohio. Legislators passed Ohio’s capital construction budget bill Tuesday. Gov. Ted Strickland is expected to sign the bill next week. Provided he doesn’t exert his line item veto powers on individual projects, those millions will soon start flowing south.

^That is funny!

'Use school buses' County Commission President has plan to fight $4 gas THE ENQUIRER School and local authorities will meet next week to hear a proposal for using school buses to expand transit service during the summer. Hamilton County Commission President Todd Portune, a longtime public-transit advocate, proposed the idea and called the meeting for 9 a.m. Monday at the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments, 720 E. Pete Rose Way, downtown. Portune said in a statement Tuesday that using idle school buses and bus drivers would make it possible to offer relief to workers struggling to pay $4 a gallon for gas. In addition, he said, it would get more cars off the road, reducing air pollution and helping the area meet federal clean-air standards. Read More...

Am I reading this wrong? So they are demoing essentially the whole block? Some of those look good enough for 3CDC's scope like the 1st phase of Gateway. Especially the 8 on Walnut. That will be a shame to loose most of these.

^That is a thought!

Officials from Butler NEED to realize, they wouldn't exist if not for Cincy and quit with their smarta$$ remarks. With all the corruption and scandals in Butler County within the past year, I don't know that I would feel comfortable with any of them having the least bit of control of something as intricate as this. Nevertheless, this is good to see talk of this kind of entity. Hopefully we start hearing Light Rail talk again soon. Plan to merge transit systems gets hearing in Butler County Business Courier of Cincinnati Cincinnati and Butler County officials are meeting Tuesday to discuss a plan for a regional transit system, the Hamilton Journal-News reported. The plan, which could include Warren and Clermont counties as well, would create a new entity called the Greater Cincinnati Transportation Authority, according to the story. The city of Cincinnati, which provides a large portion of the Metro bus system's budget, would appoint the majority of members to a new board. Other participating counties would appoint one member and then one more for each 10 percent of Metro's budget that they contribute, the story said. Read More...