Gregory said: The Ohio Fire Marshal's Office has awarded contracts to nine companies under an $8 million stimulus-funded program to clean up leaking underground storage tanks. Added: February 24, 2010 at 4:57PM EST
Gregory said: Over the next three years, the vast sea of concrete parking lots at Broadway Commons will be transformed into a $346 million casino development with up to 5,000 slot machines and tables full of gamblers. But whether the casino lives up to those economic promises will depend on decisions made in the next few months, by developers, architects and city officials. Added: December 28, 2009 at 1:56PM EST
Gregory said: A Cleveland-based non-profit that helps people in foreclosure stay in their homes will open a new branch office in Middletown, its executive director said Wednesday. Quote:
A Cleveland-based non-profit that helps people in foreclosure stay in their homes will open a new branch office in Middletown, its executive director said Wednesday.Added: December 7, 2009 at 10:24AM EST
Gregory said: Backers of casino gambling in Ohio point to a University of Cincinnati study to prove that Issue 3 "will create 34,000 new jobs." Opponents use that same study to assert "at no time will 34,000 Ohioans be put to work." The debate over how many jobs will be created - and who will get them - has dominated the television and radio ad war in recent weeks. It's a debate that's spilled over into charges, countercharges and complaints of dirty campaign tactics Added: September 29, 2009 at 3:50PM EDT
Gregory said: Cincinnati's homeless take up costly space in the Hamilton County jail - with the average homeless inmate spending more time in jail than in homeless shelters. At $65 a night, jailing homeless suspects cost taxpayers as much as $3 million a year. Those numbers are leading city and county leaders to question whether the increasingly overcrowded jail has become the homeless shelter of last resort. Added: August 16, 2009 at 6:04PM EDT
Gregory said: It's a simple question: How much stimulus money has the region received so far? The answer: No one knows. Despite assurances from the Obama Administration that stimulus spending would be fully transparent, the system for tracking stimulus spending is fractured, redundant and disorganized. Added: July 12, 2009 at 11:07PM EDT
Gregory said: The Hamilton County Board of Elections approved a new precinct map Thursday that reduces the number of precincts in the county from 880 to 680 for the November election. Added: June 12, 2009 at 11:36AM EDT