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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

A stressed couple reviews a Hamilton County property tax bill and household expenses at their dining room table.

News Politics

Hamilton County Property Tax Bill Could Jump $930 This Fall

Hamilton County commissioners approved a larger children's services levy one week after Cincinnati Public Schools placed a new 7-mill property tax on the ballot. Homeowners inside the CPS district could pay about $366 annually per $100,000 of property value under both measures if both pass. Not every Hamilton County property owner faces both levies. That…

ByAdam KoehlerAugust 6, 20260Comments

CPS spending per pupil discussed during a Cincinnati Public Schools Board of Education meeting as members review district financial information and budget data.

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CPS Spends $21,511 Per Student. Voters Are Asking What They’re Getting.

Hamilton County homeowners will decide in November whether Cincinnati Public Schools deserves another tax increase. Before they vote, the state says the district already spends $21,511 per student each year. The CPS spending per pupil figure comes directly from the Ohio Department of Education's FY25 District Profile Report, the same document the state uses to…

ByAdam KoehlerAugust 4, 20260Comments

Cincinnati Public Schools headquarters ahead of the Aug. 3 board meeting on a proposed CPS levy reversal that could replace the district's earned income tax plan with a property tax measure.

News Politics

CPS Levy Reversal Could Reshape the November Ballot

CPS Levy Reversal Could Reshape the November Ballot Cincinnati Public Schools' board could reverse its own income tax levy just one week after approving it. Board members will vote Monday on rescinding the earned income tax levy they approved July 27. Less than a week after approving a first-of-its-kind earned income tax, Cincinnati Public Schools'…

ByAdam KoehlerAugust 1, 20260Comments

CPS per-pupil spending illustrated by an empty classroom with each student desk displaying the district's reported $21,511 annual operating expenditure per student.

Politics

CPS Per-Pupil Spending Exceeds UC’s Posted Tuition

Cincinnati Public Schools is asking residents for $74 million per year in new revenue while reporting a current operating expenditure of $21,511 per pupil. That per-pupil spending figure is $6,687 higher than UC's posted tuition and fees for an Ohio undergraduate at its Uptown campus. The comparison offers another way to understand CPS per-pupil spending…

ByAdam KoehlerJuly 29, 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

Cincinnati earnings tax CPS Board of Education meeting as members debate a proposed 0.75% earned income tax levy before a packed public audience.

News Politics

CPS Income Tax Would Erase Cincinnati’s Big-City Rate Advantage

The Cincinnati Board of Education moved Monday night to put an earned income tax on the November ballot. The proposal would end a rate advantage Cincinnati has held over Ohio's other major cities for decades. Cincinnati's Board of Education voted 5-2 Monday night to put the earned income tax on the November ballot, WVXU education…

ByAdam KoehlerJuly 28, 20260Comments

Ohio Voter Data Prepared for Federal Review

News Politics

Ohio Sent Voter Data to the DOJ. Kentucky Just Won’t, For Now.

Nearly 602,000 Hamilton County voters were included when Ohio turned over its statewide voter database to the U.S. Department of Justice in February. Six months later, a federal judge across the river ruled Kentucky didn't have to hand over that same kind of information. Ohio voter data from Hamilton County and every other county in…

ByAdam KoehlerJuly 27, 20260Comments

Democratic National Headquarters at 430 South Capitol Street in Washington, D.C., amid scrutiny of DNC debt.

News Politics

DNC Debt Clouds the Help the Ohio Democrats Were Promised

Hamilton County's 2024 election report shows Sherrod Brown receiving 235,825 votes to Bernie Moreno's 158,523, a local advantage of 77,302 votes. Statewide, Moreno still won by 206,434 votes, ending Brown's Senate career. Hamilton County's margin, per certified results, offset about 37.4% of Brown's eventual statewide deficit. Brown is back on the ballot this November, joined…

ByAdam KoehlerJuly 27, 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