📊 Cincinnati adds resident voices to budget planning for the first time. The city surveyed a representative sample of residents to identify funding priorities for the upcoming budget. Top concerns include community safety, neighborhood cleanliness, housing affordability, transportation infrastructure, and nuisance removal. Within these categories, residents specifically prioritized alternative crisis responses, trash cleanup, affordable housing development, pothole repairs, and addressing homeless encampments. City Council will use these insights as they prepare the budget, which must be approved by June's end.
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🏙️ Norwood's infamous "Danger Hole" consumes city streets and imaginations. Cincinnati Business Courier's "Five Things" highlights GE Aerospace CEO Larry Culp's massive $88 million compensation package and another round of Kroger layoffs following CEO Rodney McMullen's resignation. The article also notes Cincinnati's population growth is primarily fueled by international immigration, Miami University's $50M dorm renovation project, and a new pizzeria opening in Covington's $31M development. The writer humorously describes Norwood's pothole problem, culminating with the mysterious "Danger Hole" that seems to be the final destination for all road deterioration.
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🍲 Cincinnati nonprofit tackles food waste by feeding hungry students. La Soupe is partnering with the Joe Burrow Foundation to provide meals to Athens City School District students in southeast Ohio. The initiative addresses a staggering statistic from Feeding America that 38% of all food—equivalent to 145 billion meals—goes unsold or uneaten annually. School administrators Chad Springer and Monna French are working with the organizations to ensure these rescued food resources reach students facing food insecurity.
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