Streetcar blockages clearly affect the system's operation.
Ridership is running 7% ahead of 2025 and 7% behind the record 2024 pace.
The streetcar blockages log on the city's open data portal shows 970 delays through Sept. 16. Add them up and the Connector sat still for 6,631 minutes, about 25 a day on a 3.6-mile…
Cincinnati's startup ecosystem now backs technical founders who relocate, with $300,000 apiece and a year at Union Hall.
The residency completes a funding ladder that runs from student grants to seed checks.
The Cintrifuse Emerging Founder Residency offers each selected company $300,000 for a year of building in Over-the-Rhine. Ten spots at those terms would…
Fifth Third Comerica conversion puts a $300 billion bank under Cincinnati control
The Labor Day systems change moved 600,000 customers and 293 banking centers onto Fifth Third's platform. Delivering the merger's promised savings without losing customers will be the harder test.
At 38 Fountain Square Plaza, the Fifth Third Comerica conversion has placed a bank…
Updated Sept. 6, 2026: This article has been substantially expanded with additional reporting on independent safety data, Northern Kentucky's autonomous-vehicle law and what would have to happen before driverless service could launch in the region. This update also explores the latest developments surrounding Waymo Cincinnati and its potential impact on local transportation.
Waymo Cincinnati Mapping Is…
Covington commissioners face a vote on Tuesday on a $6 million Axon Enterprise contract.
The ten-year deal already stalled once after residents and commissioners raised pointed questions.
The Covington Axon contract bundles body cameras, Tasers, and mobile license plate readers. It also adds a dock-based Drone as First Responder system and AI report-writing software. All…
The Oktoberfest pouring Sunday afternoon on West Kemper Road helped pay for the clubhouse behind it.
Different institutions built Cincinnati's other Oktoberfests.
Each major Cincinnati Oktoberfest runs on a different model, and that model determines who bears the losses. The Exchange traced who operates each festival, what their records show, and where the public record…
The Cincinnati Tax Incentive Review Council met on June 25, opened at 4:07 p.m. and adjourned at 4:31.
Both citizen seats on that board sat vacant, and three of five members present were designees.
The Cincinnati tax incentive review covered agreements tied to more than $2.6 billion in projected investment. In those 24 minutes the…
OTR Crime Is Down. The 2005 Comparison Has Problems
Cincinnati Police Department’s Aug. 24 report puts Over-the-Rhine at 77 violent offenses this year, down from 83 last year.
City Hall calls that proof Over-the-Rhine crime is falling.
OTR crime numbers did fall this year. CPD’s Aug. 24 report confirms it. That is real progress, and nobody at…
Valvoline Global Operations is putting its headquarters in a downtown Cincinnati tower that faced sheriff's auction two months ago.
Valvoline announced on Aug. 24 that it will renovate 50,000 square feet at 312 Elm St. for 120 employees, with the facility opening in spring 2027.
That makes Cincinnati the new home of the Valvoline global…
Greater Cincinnati had 3,271 homes actively listed for sale in July.
This was 5.7% more than a year earlier, according to the REALTOR® Alliance of Greater Cincinnati.
Three weeks later, Federal Reserve minutes showed several policymakers had favored a quarter-point rate increase at their July meeting. Even so, the committee held its benchmark rate steady.…


