By the Exchange's count, Ohio polls have underestimated Republicans by an average of 5 points since 2014.
This fall, those polls show Democrat Sherrod Brown leading Republican Sen. Jon Husted by about 3 points.
So are Ohio polls fake, or just wrong in the same direction, year after year? The honest answer is the second…
Hamilton County's children's services levy fund spent about twice as much on child placements in 2025 as in 2021.
The average number of children in placement rose just 19% over those same four years.
That gap sits at the center of Issue 10, the children's services levy on the Nov. 3 ballot. The ballot asks…
Gunfire killed 18-year-old Avante Baker Beatty on Lexington Avenue in Avondale at 4:28 p.m. on Sept. 27, 2021.
Cincinnati police reported his killing to state and federal crime databases under the code Ohio labels "No Gang Involvement."
His record is one line in Cincinnati gang data, and the data almost never says "gang." In fall…
Say you own a small paid parking lot in Cincinnati, with a pay box and no electrical service.
You've never broken into a car, and you have no idea which ones hold guns.
Starting Jan. 1, Cincinnati's parking security ordinance makes you pay to stop the people who do.
Council passed it 7-2 on Sept. 30.…
Gloria's Place opened on Dunlap Street last month with 44 apartments and no sobriety requirement at the door.
The federal agency that helps fund supportive housing like it closes a competition on Sept. 30 that rewards something else.
Cincinnati built its homelessness system on federal Housing First funding, and HUD now says that experiment failed.…
When Cincinnati committed $1.85 million to Wesley Baymiller in June 2025, one of its buildings faced two city Final Notices.
No public record shows whether the city's development office checked its own inspection files before committing.
Wesley Baymiller would renovate 13 older buildings holding 60 subsidized apartments and five commercial spaces. Model Group leads the…
A subsidized senior apartment in Paddock Hills now advertises one-bedroom apartments starting at $1,154 per month.
The 1964 market-rate complex 734 feet up Victory Parkway lists a one-bedroom base rent of $1,105.
That pairing is the first entry in an Exchange test of whether Cincinnati LIHTC apartments rent for less than the surrounding market. I…
Cincinnati set aside $360,000 to replace and expand its police license plate readers.
Eight companies bid for the work, and public records don't show who they are or which three ranked highest.
A Jan. 22 memo from City Manager Sheryl Long describes the Cincinnati ALPR procurement in two sentences. "Evaluation committee scores submitted and corresponding…
AEP's rules push large data centers to an 85% minimum bill.
Duke's Cincinnati-area proposal allows as little as 60%, with collateral and exit terms negotiated project by project.
Duke filed the data center tariff, called Rate DC, with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio on July 27. Regulators set an Oct. 22 deadline for public…
On Tuesday, I gave ChatGPT one more piece of information about my life: my credit report.
That sounds like a personal finance story, but it's really about running four businesses at once.
AI productivity for me stopped meaning faster writing a while ago. It's become the place where I manage a growing share of the…


