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Chris Wetterich

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Journalist at the Cincinnati Business Courier covering government and politics, transportation & downtown development. cwetterich @bizjournals .com

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Joined January 2012
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2 years
Violent crime in Cincinnati is at a 10-year low, homicides are down 15% YTD from 2020 and 2021. Facts, not vibes.
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"There’s a strong demand for short-distance corridor trains in the United States to provide that transportation option for travelers that don’t want to drive or fly.”
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3 years
Holy cow, it’s hard to believe what just happened in Columbus. The Republicans have decided to spark a constitutional crisis.
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7 months
Just in: The nine potential streetcar routes are revealed.
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3 years
Lol Cincy media tracking the Bengals’ arrival at LAX like they’re the president.
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4 months
Amtrak has big plans — and funding — to expand intercity rail service in Cincinnati.
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4 months
This gorgeous station in Cincinnati used to see 216 trains per day. Today? It sees 6 per week. We used to be a proper country with the best rail system in the world, and there’s no reason we can’t get some of that back.
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4 months
These were clown charges. An outrage and affront to the First Amendment.
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Xavier pro-Palestinian protesters appear in court on felony charges.
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3 years
You’d think that at this reduced capacity, the Reds could find the “woooo!” people at the ballpark and send them to The Hague as justice demands.
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Chris Wetterich
3 years
More than 70% of Ohioans voted to end gerrymandering.
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Brian Stewart
3 years
Dems ran on their redistricting whining cycle after cycle, Ohioans didn’t care, & locked them out of the Apportionment Board by *statewide* vote 3 cycles in a row. The only people in Ohio following this are ultra online Democrats & the 12 political reporters who cover them.
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2 years
New Ohio poll from Baldwin-Wallace University (with leaners) Governor DeWine (R-inc.) 58% Whaley (D) 39% U.S. Senate Ryan (D) 48% Vance (R) 45%
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4 years
Tapper: “It’s time for some Republican lawmakers to find their spine.” @senrobportman ?
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2 years
Millions and millions of dollars continue to go to Wasson Way, which is on the east side of Cincinnati. Meanwhile the Mill Creek trail, which connects black and brown neighborhoods west of I-75, has been like this for at least two, probably three, years now.
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2 years
Latest results in #OH01 Landsman: 140,649 Chabot: 133,259 The only remaining precincts without Election Day totals are in the city of Cincinnati and Springfield Township. This race is over. It is Congressman-elect Greg Landsman.
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Chris Wetterich
3 years
So Chabot, Massie, Wenstrup and Davidson vote against the infrastructure bill that would fix the Brent Spence Bridge and was negotiated by Sen. Rob Portman. Our politics in a nutshell.
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Chris Wetterich
7 months
Supporters of the Cincinnati streetcar will unveil nine proposed, potential new routes, an entire rail system that would extend throughout the city and into Northern Kentucky, at a community meeting on Thursday. Link in the next tweet.
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Chris Wetterich
3 years
Mayor Aftab Pureval expressing solidarity with Cincinnati’s sister city in Kharkiv and said the city has offered the federal government in helping resettle Ukranian refugees here.
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Chris Wetterich
3 years
Blue Ash Chili is fine, but somebody take Guy Fieri to Camp Washington Chili.
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2 years
Just in: Greater Cincinnati Water Works will close the Ohio River intake system as the chemicals from East Palestine pass the region "out of an abundance of caution." The city will provide water to the region via its reserves.
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Chris Wetterich
1 month
If this Joe Burrow political news is true, get ready for more than half the region to have a meltdown.
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10 months
New Ohio Northern Poll shows Issue 1 passing 60% to 40%.
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Chris Wetterich
4 years
These are Hamilton County sheriff’s deputies. In case you were wondering why Sheriff Jim Neil lost the Democratic primary 70%-30%, this is why.
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The Cincinnati police pulled down the American flag at the justice center and replaced it with the thin blue line. Infuriating. Picture from a friend.
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3 years
Just in: Mayor Aftab Pureval said there will be a parade if the Bengals win the Super Bowl, sometime next week. “I’ve met several times with the city manager about the route. We are prepared,” Pureval said.
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Chris Wetterich
2 years
Cincinnati residents: I would like a grocery store within walking distance of my house. Also Cincinnati residents: I do not want more people living near me.
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Chris Wetterich
3 years
Even after all these years, I’m still stunned sometimes by the Titanic-level vessel of disinformation that is 700 WLW.
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Chris Wetterich
4 years
Democrats have taken six of the eight judgeships they needed to win a majority on the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas and the one they needed for the Hamilton County Appellate Court. Unheralded races but vital.
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Chris Wetterich
3 years
Soooo … I guess our government didn’t level and ruin a large, stable Black neighborhood to build I-75.
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3 years
Chris Wetterich @ChrisCinciBiz might have missed this. Now, I don't know who to believe.
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2 years
With 100% of the precincts in, former Mayor John Cranley has lost Hamilton County to former Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley by 46 votes.
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Chris Wetterich
4 years
A hard truth: It will cost U.S. Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Columbia-Tusculum, absolutely nothing politically that he supported an effort to subvert the 2020 presidential election.
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Chris Wetterich
6 months
Ah, Frank LaRose, tonight learning the lesson of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, Ron DeSantis, Kevin McCarthy, Mike Pence, Tim Scott and many, many before and yet to come who have defiled themselves for Trump. How much is your dignity worth?
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Chris Wetterich
3 years
Just in: The Ohio Supreme Court has ordered the Redistricting Commission to appear personally in court on March 1.
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Chris Wetterich
1 year
I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that voters don't want to hand over more power to a corrupt statehouse, but still, it's a little bit life affirming, right?
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Chris Wetterich
3 years
Aftab Pureval will be Cincinnati’s. next mayor. David Mann has conceded.
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1 year
Issue 1 is even losing 54%-46% in Clermont County.
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Chris Wetterich
4 years
The city of Cincinnati does not fund education. The city of Cincinnati does not fund education. The city of Cincinnati does not fund education. The city of Cincinnati does not fund education. The city of Cincinnati does not fund education.
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Chris Wetterich
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No Cincinnati neighborhood outside the basin (and I will argue about that too) has a parking problem if people are willing to walk a few blocks and/or pay. Pretend it's a city, not Walmart.
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Chris Wetterich
4 years
Since there’s apparently a tripartisan supermajority on City Council for light rail, why don’t they, you know, get started on a plan for that.
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Chris Wetterich
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FC Cincinnati co-CEO Jeff Berding says the team is looking at bidding on the 2027 MLS All Star Game.
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Chris Wetterich
3 years
Just in: The Ohio Supreme Court has tossed out the latest state legislative maps. New deadline: Feb. 17.
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Chris Wetterich
3 years
Nearly got hit today while legally crossing Chase at Hamilton Ave. by a southbound driver trying to make a left. I was at a meeting 2 months ago where Northside was told there’s little $ for traffic enforcement, but I’m glad CPD has resources to try to bust gay men in the woods.
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Chris Wetterich
2 years
You've got to be a real wingnut to approach the Cincinnati FBI building with a gun. That place is a fortress and they are armed to the teeth.
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Chris Wetterich
2 years
Ah, yes, with warm weather comes Motorcycle Asshole season.
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Chris Wetterich
4 years
Maybe the governor should just get it over with and mandate them statewide with the proper exceptions instead of mayors doing his heavy lifting for him.
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Henry J. Gomez
4 years
Gov. Mike DeWine backs Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley's push to require masks in public spaces there. "It’s an appropriate and welcome response to increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases in their area," he says. "I encourage other communities to consider following Dayton's lead.”
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Chris Wetterich
3 months
Imagine the theromnuclear war that neighborhoods would wage against Cincinnati City Hall over something like this.
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Hayden
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Single-stair apartments, like this one in Seattle, allow for 20 housing units on a lot that used to contain one single-family home. We need to legalize apartments on small lots so that we can build more missing middle housing with beautiful floor plans! (B9 architects)
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2 years
Streetcar ridership hasn't just hit record highs locally, it is setting marks for growth that put it ahead of nearly every other transit system nationwide. What's next?
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Chris Wetterich
3 years
Just in: The Ohio Supreme Court has tossed the congressional map.
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Chris Wetterich
2 months
Biden’s going to be remembered with Harry Truman and George H.W. Bush, a much better president than contemporary Americans gave him credit for.
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Chris Wetterich
3 years
Now we just need a vaccine for Cincinnati allergies.
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Chris Wetterich
3 years
Folks, if you don’t believe local government is important and that you should vote tomorrow, Jaws is on AMC right now. After screwing up Amity Island’s response to the giant shark attack, Larry Vaughn was still mayor in Jaws 2.
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Chris Wetterich
4 years
Ohio House Democrats have released their November election proposal, which calls for ballots to automatically be sent to every voter in the state.
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Chris Wetterich
2 years
Uh, if Trump-loving, red, conservative Kansas doesn't want to ban abortion this much, imagine what the results will be in other states with citizen-initiated constitutional amendments. Like say Ohio.
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Chris Wetterich
3 years
Just in: Mayor Aftab Pureval and City Council members announcing a $5 million allocation of American Rescue Plan Act funds to the affordable housing trust fund, plus $15 million in private money, added to $42 million there now, for a $57 million total.
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3 years
In addition to having its first Asian-American mayor, Cincinnati also will have a majority African American council with five members being Black. I haven’t dived into the history books, but my guess is that’s the first time that’s ever happened.
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2 years
Mayor Aftab Pureval has appointed Daniella Beltran, an urban planner with Yard & Company, to be on the Cincinnati Planning Commission. She'll replace Olivia Smitherman. It's been a while since the Planning Commission had an actual, uh, planner on it.
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3 years
Just in: Hamilton County Auditor Dusty Rhodes announces he will not run for a ninth term in 2022.
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CiNcINaTi Is ToO sMaLL fOR rAIL
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If Cincinnati and Dresden swapped public rail networks, to scale. Dresden metro population: 600k Cincinnati metro population: 2.3 million Idea Credit: @pushtheneedle
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90,000 tickets sold for Janet Jackson at the Cincinnati Music Festival underscores why it’s the region’s most-important tourism event.
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Chris Wetterich
3 years
Just got off the phone with Cincinnati historian Dan Hurley, who confirms this is the first time since the 1925 Charter reforms that Democrats have had eight seats on council.
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Chris Wetterich
5 years
Uncle Woody’s on Calhoun near UC the next bar up to see council object to the renewal of its booze permit. Councilman Landsman notes that the solicitor’s report says the bar had more underage drinking citations than any other bar in the city.
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Chris Wetterich
3 years
It’s a lie. Josh Mandel is lying. He’s a liar.
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I’ve got local and national feeds on Tweetdeck. Both are filled with these CovCath videos. Make no mistake, this is a Category 5 shitstorm.
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3 years
OMG there is no Cincinnati neighborhood that is the “next Over-the-Rhine.” Stop it.
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3 years
U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Westwood, who voted to object to Pennsylvania’s electors back in January, was on national NPR earlier today, saying he was worried about America’s reputation in light of the events in Afghanistan.
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3 years
Maybe CNN can replace Cuomo with a real newsperson at 9 p.m. That be a nice change of pace for the three cable news networks, whose prime-time schedules are nothing but televised op-ed pages, at best, and carnival barkers at worst.
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But, in this case, mostly a person who took science in elementary school.
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@ChrisCinciBiz Reporter. Columnist. Pundit. Urbanist. And now Climatologist. Hard for us to keep track. 😉
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4 years
Final Issue 7 results: Yes 67,698 No 66,718
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6 years
If the Bengals signed Kaepernick, I would actually watch more than the single quarter I’ve seen so far this year. I might even buy a ticket.
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You know, I’m starting to think the whole good-guys-with-guns thing might not be a rock-solid solution to these continual massacres of children.
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The new Cincinnati City Council just reversed its first Cranley-era policy, voting to ask the administration to give it options to finish the Central Parkway bikeway on the street instead of the more-expensive off-street option.
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After 2020, we’re going to need to ask Cincinnati City Council candidates: Do you have your personal finances in order? Can you and your family survive on a $65,000 salary?
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Chris Wetterich
4 years
That video he issued? Which I won’t dignify by linking to it. The 25th. It’s time.
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3 years
The new Hamilton County clerk of courts is Pavan Parikh.
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4 years
Just in: The Ohio House has removed Larry Householder as speaker, 90-0.
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4 years
Just talked with the head of the bus drivers union, Troy Miller, who refused to have bus drivers drive protestors to jail last night on curfew violation charges.
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Chris Wetterich
3 years
He did? Pretty sure that was Greg Landsman.
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Sandy Theis
3 years
Gentle reminder: As Mayor, John Cranley led the effort to expand pre-school. Today, Cincinnati's Preschool Promise provides universal preschool for 3- & 4-year olds in Cincinnati public schools. Dayton's levy provides preschool for just four year olds.
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Just in: Former Hamilton County Auditor Brigid Kelly has died. Statement from her family: "She was surrounded by love and peace after waging a two-year battle with cancer. She was a treasured wife, daughter and sister, a valued friend and a true public servant."
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3 years
Caller on WLW now: “We had one of the great prophets of the last century in Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights movement has gone so far to the left of him.” Try reading his speeches dude. All of them, not just that one part that sounded nice to you.
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It feels kind of weird that we have to go to work the day after an attempted coup.
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Chris Wetterich
2 years
Cranley also lost the city of Cincinnati to Whaley and rather bigly: Whaley 10,098 Cranley 8,397 So, Cranley did better in suburban Hamilton County than the city of which he was once mayor.
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Just in: The city will close streets and lanes in streets to expand outdoor dining as restaurants reopen next week.
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4 years
Hamilton County turnout has passed 60%.
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Just in: Voters approve Issue 22, the sale of the Cincinnati Southern Railway. And they have elected nine Democrats to Cincinnati City Council for the first time ever, ousting Republican-Charterite Liz Keating.
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Feels like Asian Food Fest has doubled in size in just three years. Another great Cincinnati outdoor festival.
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6 years
Turnout has passed 50% in Hamilton County.
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Just in: The Cincinnati Planning Commission has approved the mayor's Connected Communities plan on a 6-0 vote.
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Just in: WLW pretending to care about the deficit.
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We are Cincinnati sports fans. It’s impossible to stun us anymore.
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Iowa stuns Cincinnati 79-72; Bearcats ousted in first round of NCAA tournament
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Just in: Justice Pat DeWine will recuse himself from the March 1 hearing involving his father, Gov. Mike DeWine.
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4 years
The mayor just referred to the Over-the-Rhine residential parking program as one that “privatizes, for the benefit of the wealthy, public streets.” That comment as the city *literally* takes public space and turns it over to private business.
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Chris Wetterich
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BART stops at midnight? Cincinnati Metro has routes that never stop now. I think a lot of people in the region don't realize how much our bus system has improved.
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Bilal Mahmood 馬百樂
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Why do restaurants in San Francisco close before 10pm? One reason: Workers can’t afford to live here, so they commute in from neighboring cities. But b/c BART stops at midnight, workers need to leave early to get home. As is often the case in SF, it comes back to housing.
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Repeat after me: Weather does not equal climate.
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Chris Wetterich
2 years
Ohio lawmakers have stuck it to cities again with Gov. Mike DeWine signing a bill that would ban projects with low-income housing tax credits from also receiving historic tax credits. This is going wallop projects by the Model Group and 3CDC specifically. .
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Chris Wetterich
4 years
The new United States senator from Georgia.
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Jon Ossoff
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🚈 Light rail. Fast rail. 🚃 Streetcars. Electric cars. 🚴‍♂️ Bikeshares. Bike lanes. 🌳 Greenbelts. Beltlines. Historic infrastructure investment is coming.
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You don’t have to burn a cross to be a racist.
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A Texas woman explains why she doesn't want affordable housing in her neighborhood. I think this clip is @jbouie and @GeeDee215 bait
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Why am I, as a taxpayer, seeing public dollars used to subsidize parking garages? Why don’t commuters have to pay the full, market price for those spaces? And would the city subsidizing public transit be cheaper?
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Gov. Beshear must have remembered that Kentucky was in the Union and Jefferson Davis was a traitor who grew up in Mississippi.
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Ryland Barton
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Gov. Beshear says the statue of Jefferson Davis should be removed from the Kentucky Capitol Rotunda
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