Thursday, September 18 2014
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Cranley: Let the People Have Garbage Cans!
If you’re a trashy citizen, you’ll enjoy this story– Cranley is scrapping the much-maligned, one-garbage-can-per-household rule. According to officials, the Mallory-era rule caused an increase in illegal dumping and needs to go. During the Mayor’s annual State of the City address this evening, he’ll outline several ideas to cleanup the proverbial (and literal) mess.
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Kroger to Unveil Online Shopping for the Tri-state
Earlier this year, Kroger acquired Harris Teeter Stores, primarily for its online shopping program. As a result, Cincinnati consumers will soon reap the benefits, as the grocery behemoth has just announced plans to rollout the online system here. No word on a date or pricing, but the move should please many who brave the insane Krogering hordes every week.
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Council Passes Two More Sex Trafficking Ordinances
Months after raising barricades along sections of McMicken Avenue in Over-the-Rhine to deter prostitution, City Council passed two new ordinances to help curb the city’s growing sex trafficking problems. Councilwoman Yvette Simpson sponsored both the ordinances, the first of which increases fines for prostitution in a motor vehicle from $500 to $100 and another $2500 for each subsequent offense. The second ordinance puts the money raised from the fines into an anti-prostitution fund that aims to help reduce the number of offenses throughout the city.
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Oktoberfest 2014 Descends on Zinzinnati This Weekend
Break out the Lederhosen kids, the annual Zinzinnati Oktoberfest kicks off tomorrow afternoon in the Central Business District. Replete with half a million visitors, steins as big as your head and more cream-puffs than you can shake a weiner dog at, this year’s celebration is the 38th installment and the forecast is calling for beer.
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Mayor Cranley Likes Haile Plan for Streetcar Funding, but Wants to Explore More Options
The recommendations proposed last week from the Haile/U.S. Bank Foundation partnership to shore up operating costs of the forthcoming Cincinnati streetcar include reducing the fare by .75c to $1. The partnership’s estimates claim that a reduction in the fare would generate 76 percent more rides and only 1 percent less revenue if the fare were at $1.75. Mayor John Cranley said he likes the idea, but has another idea up his sleeve that he has yet to unveil.
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