Carthage Paideia Academy is one of the schools slated for closure as the result of the Cincinnati Public School (CPS) Board of Education vote on Dec. 11, 2006. When it will close was on the minds of some people in attendance at Monday’s board meeting.
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A key belief of the Charter Committee — Cincinnati’s de facto third political party — is that elected officials shouldn’t meddle in daily administrative tasks at City Hall, instead letting the city manager handle the matters as a method to depoliticize some aspects of municipal government
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In another move to capitalize on the media frenzy over the Marcus Fiesel case, Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters has called a press conference at 2:30 p.m. today.
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After four years of slaughter, the time has come to take matters into our own hands. The U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq is wrong. If our leaders won’t stop it, then it is up to us to do so.
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Hoping to quell growing dissent among some rank-and-file Democrats, Cincinnati City Councilman Jeff Berding invited two popular local Democratic politicians to speak at his campaign fundraiser this week that featured a host committee stacked with Republicans.
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Despite 2006 becoming another record-breaking year for homicides in Cincinnati, during his annual State of the City address tonight Mayor Mark Mallory said progress was made in fighting crime during his first year in office and touted several new initiatives planned to improve public safety in coming months.
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Former Cincinnati City Councilman Christopher Smitherman has won an appeal filed with the NAACP’s national headquarters seeking a new election for the local branch’s presidency.
The NAACP’s national board of directors has voted that the Cincinnati branch must hold a new election, according to a press release issued today from Edith Thrower, the branch’s current president.
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It’s a shameful day for the court system in the United States. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled that foreigners held by the U.S. military may not challenge their detention in U.S. courts.
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What’s the point of The Enquirer’s photo gallery of people grieving for Natalie Fossier?
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