Cincinnati has some 400 sets of hillside stairways through all parts of the city, winding their way between neighborhoods and historic sites and offering jaw-dropping views for determined hikers. Soapbox's Casey Coston offers a walk along his favorites.
Last Friday bore witness to one of the most momentous groundbreakings in the modern history of Cincinnati. As an energized and enthusiastic crowd looked on, Mayor Mallory, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and other assorted city dignitaries modeled their commemorative, gold spray-painted shovels and ill-fitting hardhats for the assembled media, all in a prelude to the groundbreaking ceremony for the Cincinnati streetcar.
“When is construction going to start?” “When can I ride it?” “What’s happening?” Since the defeat of the anti-streetcar initiative last November, there are more questions than answers about the city's oft-embattled transportation project. Soapbox's Casey Coston sorts out the answers.
In the current panoply of referenda facing us this fall, there is probably no issue more divisive to Cincinistas, no issue more emotional or heated, no issue more misinterpreted and mangled, than the anti-rail charter amendment currently known as Issue 48.
Cincinnati's massive and verdant park system hosts 100 parks and close to 5,000 acres of greenspace - ranking it in the top three city park systems in the country. Columnist Casey Coston makes the case that parks are one of our city's crown jewels, and investing in them now will help us see green for years to come.
As Cincinnati continues its emergence from the grey depths of winter, Soapdish columnist Casey Coston takes a look at development on our waterfront and the burgeoning Riverfront Park space that will be in bloom this spring.
Columnist Casey Coston offers this editorial about the latest round of road blocks being thrown on the tracks of Cincinnati's streetcar project, and wonders what they might mean about our sense of regionalism and the kind of future city we envision.
Columnist Casey Coston reflects on our Hollywood afterglow thanks to native son George Clooney's recent three week stint filming in the Queen City, and takes a closer look at the challenges and rewards of bringing the film industry to your hometown.
Ground is broken, a new general manager appointed, and a community is engaged in what will be Cincinnati's first major casino development. Soapdish columnist Casey Coston takes a look at the big plans for the site, and the local grass roots effort ensuring it blends with abutting neighborhoods.
Columnist Casey Coston says don't blame the streetcar for Cincinnati's budget balancing woes - it might just be part of the solution.
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