Restoring reflections: The gentle power of Annie Ruth
In a city still learning how to honor its full story, she dares to believe beauty belongs to us all.
Reading
The City of Reading has two mottos: “The Crossroads of Opportunity” and “We Do Our Best” (from the German “Wir Tun Unser Bestes”). Downtown Reading has seized opportunities and done its best in recent decades by forming the country’s most well known Bridal District. A concentration of wedding related businesses lines Benson Street and beyond, attracting altar-bound regional shoppers from far and wide. Reading’s economic bread and butter, however, is supplying aerospace and automotive plants in nearby Evendale and Sharonville. Historically known as a “sundown town,” African Americans were prohibited from residing in Reading for many decades. Census data shows zero Blacks within the Reading population from 1860 to 1960.
Talbert House’s INsight Program steers teens to mental health careers
Professional therapists, counselors, nurses, and social workers introduce students to a growing field.
Metro’s sales tax increase can improve streets, sidewalks, bridges in the county’s small towns
Tens of millions have been awarded to projects outside the city of Cincinnati, making the tax a significant source of funding for small towns.
Together again: Towns work to reconnect neighborhoods divided by trains and automobiles
Six neighboring communities are figuring out how to restore the small-town connections they enjoyed before the interstate highway and the railroad carved them up.
Despite controversies, mayor’s courts are fixtures of small-town justice
Ohio is one of only two states with mayor's courts, whose origins date to 19th century Cincinnati.
Mill Creek: Far from dead, the urban waterway has potential for recreation throughout its course
A 43-mile trail along two branches of the stream would connect more than a dozen Hamilton County communities.
There’s new funding for affordable housing. Will it reach the first-ring suburbs?
The affordable housing shortage is often thought of as a big-city problem, but first-ring suburbs also need investment to improve aging housing stock and encourage ownership.
Public meetings and convening sessions help guide county allocation of federal funds
This money went towards immediate, long-term, and transformational needs.
The Queen City receives her CROWN
Private and public entities join forces to link communities in health, transportation, environmentalism and commerce.
Working in Neighborhoods wins EPA grant to reduce water pollution
Thanks to a $120,000 federal grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, improvements will be made to the Mill Creek Watershed.
