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Community Opinion

How safe are UC students after recent shootings near campus?

Student safety has become a growing concern after several recent shootings near the University of Cincinnati campus. The violence has prompted increased patrols and a coordinated response from university and Cincinnati police. The University of Cincinnati said the recent incidents occurred off campus in nearby neighborhoods. However, many students live, work, and spend time in…

ByNina OliverioSeptember 3, 20260Comments

Gloria's Place and Vine Street's Social-Service Corridor

Opinion Politics

Vine Street Is Turning Into a Social-Service Corridor

Walk north from Findlay Market along Vine Street, and you pass a permanent supportive housing building, a recovery house, a supportive building, a halfway house, then another recovery program, in roughly the space of ten blocks. Cincinnati has spent decades trying to turn that same stretch into the connective tissue between Downtown and Uptown, and…

ByAdam KoehlerAugust 17, 20260Comments

Cincinnati DSA crowds of young adults absorbed in social media transition toward organized political activism, symbolized by marchers carrying a red socialist flag toward a government building at sunrise.

Opinion Politics

Cincinnati DSA Chapter Grows as National Membership Surges

A Cincinnati chapter of a rapidly growing national organization meets every other week in Walnut Hills. That local presence mirrors a national resurgence that just made Democratic Socialists of America the largest socialist organization in American history. Metro Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky Democratic Socialists of America, the local Cincinnati DSA chapter, runs an active local…

ByAdam KoehlerJuly 28, 20260Comments

Emergency rescue workers navigate floodwaters on Madison Avenue during the Oakley flooding Cincinnati storm as stranded vehicles sit beneath the Interstate 71 overpass.

News Opinion

Why Is Oakley Underwater When Cincinnati Has $1.8 Billion for Infrastructure?

Friday night's Oakley flooding hit hard enough that the neighborhood, along with Hyde Park, disappeared underwater. Forty water rescues. I-71 underwater in both directions. A Metro bus with water past the seats. Oakley flooding was also reported during these storms. Madisonville and Pleasant Ridge took on water too. Flash floodwaters killed one person in Fairfax,…

ByAdam KoehlerJuly 18, 20260Comments

Ohio voter pauses outside a polling place as Republican purity tests shape the governor’s race

Opinion Politics

Republican Purity Tests Could Hand Ohio to Democrats

Conservatives can punish an imperfect Republican nominee, but Amy Acton would collect the reward. Four days before Ohio's Republican primary, supporters gathered at American Legion Anderson Post 318 on Clough Pike for a Vivek Ramaswamy town hall. When Hamilton County finished counting ballots, the Cincinnati-born candidate had received 36,487 votes, nearly 85% of those cast…

ByAdam KoehlerJune 30, 20260Comments

Cincinnati police officers and patrol vehicles block a residential street during a violent crime investigation as the city debates public safety, gun violence, and police staffing levels.

News Opinion

Cincinnati Is Smaller Than Chicago. It Wasn’t Safer This Weekend.

This past Juneteenth and Father’s Day weekend, Chicago recorded 46 shooting victims and 8 deaths. Cincinnati recorded at least 7 shooting victims and 4 deaths. Consider what those numbers mean together. Chicago has approximately 2.72 million residents. Cincinnati has about 311,000. One city is nearly nine times larger than the other. Yet during the same…

ByCory BowmanJune 22, 20260Comments

Campaign Zero Cincinnati report feature image showing a Cincinnati Police cruiser, downtown Cincinnati skyline, and police stop data charts used in the debate over racial disparities in police stops.

Opinion Politics

Campaign Zero’s Cincinnati Report Leaves Too Many Questions Unanswered

A statistical model is only as reliable as the variables it includes, and this report may be missing some of the most important ones. For example, Campaign Zero's analysis often highlights just how much data selection can impact results. What Campaign Zero Claims Campaign Zero's report, Contact Cards in Cincinnati: A Review of Racial Bias…

ByChristina HolbrookJune 19, 20260Comments

Opinion Politics

Cincinnati’s Climate Migrant Plan Reveals a Bigger Problem at City Hall

Cincinnati Wants to Prepare for Climate Migrants The City of Cincinnati recently released a Climate Migration Readiness Plan through its Office of Environment and Sustainability. WVXU reported that the plan was released on May 13 and considers how climate migration could shape Cincinnati by 2050. It also examines what the city can do now to…

ByAdam KoehlerJune 8, 20260Comments

Crime reporting concerns illustrated by a woman with duct tape covering her mouth, symbolizing silence, fear, and reluctance to report crime.

Opinion Politics

Is Crime Down in Cincinnati? Or Have We Simply Stopped Reporting?

Cincinnati's latest crime statistics show improvement in several categories, and city leaders have pointed to those numbers as evidence that public safety is improving. The numbers may be accurate. The larger question is whether they tell the entire story. As reporting habits change, expectations shift, and frustrated residents leave, official crime statistics can begin drifting…

ByAdam KoehlerJune 6, 20260Comments

Afroman in court during his 2026 Afroman free speech verdict trial in Adams County, Ohio

News Opinion Politics

Afroman Free Speech Verdict: Appalachian Authority Skepticism

How Appalachian Ohio’s Skepticism of Authority Shaped the Afroman Free Speech Verdict In 2022, Adams County sheriff’s deputies arrived with a search warrant at the southern Ohio home of Joseph Foreman, better known as Afroman. He is the musician whose 2001 hit Because I Got High still echoes from car stereos and dorm…