Group proposes alternative idea to highway with 'urban boulevards' for I-71/75 corridor through #NorthernKentucky neighborhoods and into #Cincinnati instead of the Brent Spence Corridor Project, a $3.6 billion plan that includes widening I-71/75 to 16 lanes.

They want through traffic to use alternative routes and transform 1-71/75 into an urban, transit boulevard, rebuilding the highway to expand greenspace and tree cover, reconnect neighborhoods, create space for affordable housing, grocery stores, and local businesses, improve air quality, and provide accessible, sustainable transportation throughout the corridor. #Ohio #Kentucky

Lovely idea but I don't know how this will shuttle people downtown and back home for work. Mass transit from the Ohio and Northen KY burbs to various points in Cincinnati seems the better alternative. A true mass transit solution. This plan does nothing for Ohio and only would add congestions to the burbs on 275

https://www.wcpo.com/news/northern-kentucky/group-proposes-alternative-idea-to-highway-with-urban-boulevards-for-i-71-75-corridor

People Over Pavement — Greater Cincinnati Coalition for Transit and Sustainable Development https://www.sustainablecincy.org/initiatives/people-over-pavementurban boulevards

#117 A poster by the French artist Jules Chéret showing samples of the printing inks manufactured by The Ault & Wiborg Co of Cincinnati, c.1910 #AultAndWiborg #JulesChéret #PrintingInks #Cincinnati #ArtNouveau #Art

Today in Labor History March 13, 1848: The German revolutions of 1848-1849 began in Vienna. While the middle classes were fighting for a unified German state and increased civil liberties, the working class had more revolutionary aspirations. Participants in the revolution included communist and anarchist revolutionaries like Marx, Engels and Bakunin, as well as the composer Wagner. The aristocracy exploited the split between the classes, facilitating their eventual violent defeat, with great loss of life and mass imprisonment. Many fled to the U.S. and became known as “forty-eighters.” They moved to places like Cincinnati’s Ober der Rhine neighborhood, or Saint Louis. After risking their lives fighting against serfdom in Europe, many were so horrified by the persistence of slavery in their new country that they dedicated themselves to the cause of abolition and free thinking, joining organizations like the Freimӓnverein (Society of Freemen) and the Wide Awakes (a radical militia that defended free blacks and fought Confederates in the streets). Some of them also became publishers, like Henry Boernstein, who had previously published “Vorwärts!” in Paris with Karl Marx, Engels, Heinrich Heine and others.

You can read more on The Wide Awakes and the Antebellum Roots of Wokeness here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/27/the-wide-awakes-and-the-antebellum-roots-of-wokeness/

Rally against white supremacy. It was a busy weekend to be a street medic in #Cincinnati #direct #action

Roadways near Vice President JD Vance's Cincinnati home to close this weekend

WCPO news reached out multiple times to Vance's team to learn whether the Vice President is returning to the house and why he may be back in the #Cincinnati area this weekend but have not heard back.

City of #Cincinnati officials announced the road closures on Thursday.

Beginning at 6:30 p.m. Friday, through Monday morning, these roads in East Walnut Hills will be closed:

William Howard Taft Road between Torrence Parkway and East McMillan Collins Avenue at Riverside Drive #Ohio #USPol

It's unsure if any #Protests are scheduled near #JDVance's home.

https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/roadways-near-vice-president-jd-vances-cincinnati-home-to-close-this-weekend

Trump puts #Cincinnati's Downtown Peck office building on list for sale

The Internal Revenue Service is the main tenant, but the building also houses offices for the Corps of Engineers, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Trade Bureau, National Labor Relations Board, and Department of Homeland Security’s Citizenship and Immigration Services.

This shit is nonsense #USPol #Ohio

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2025/03/04/cincinnatis-peck-building-could-be-sold/81386959007/

Guess who just got a couple tickets to see Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan in concert? We did! We did! We Did!

Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan and more are coming to Riverbend in #Cincinnati #Ohio on Sunday, Jun 22, 2025, 5:00 PM

They still have #ADA lawn seating available for $35+fees.

Lineup
Outlaw Music Festival
Willie Nelson
Bob Dylan
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
Trampled By Turtles
Myron Elkins

Like every other planned outing, it requires my health to cooperate, and we can get a house sitter, we will be going. If not, expect to see a couple Nelson/Dylan tickets for sale.

https://www.ticketmaster.com/outlaw-willie-nelson-bob-dylan-nathaniel-cincinnati-ohio-06-22-2025/event/1600622FC3684608

started a #wikipedia article on Ohio-based writer, artist, educator, and psychologist, Rhoza A. Walker Bullock Simmons Bailey (1916-1998): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoza_A._Walker @wikiwomeninred #BlackHistoryMonth #TheCrisis #Cincinnati #Cleveland @ohiowikimedians

Residents in the historically Black Lincoln Heights Village in #Cincinnati have organized community defense after a provocation by a #neoNazi group.

#ResistRiseupMovement
#blackpeople #mobilize
#LincolnHeights #BlackLivesMatter #BlackExcellence #BlackPower #BlackPride #BlackEmpowering #PanAfricanism #BlackCulture #BlackLiberation #BlackHistoryMonth #ByAnyMeansNecessary #africa #happyblackhistorymonth

Offering a safe place to stay in #Cincinnati. Need to bring a bed, I let one go.

VIDEO: United States Attorney’s Office announces termination of Kenneth L. Parker as U.S. Attorney, fired as US Attorney for Southern District of Ohio

Mr. Parker was sworn in on November 23, 2021, as the 45th United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio. Former President Joseph Biden nominated Parker on September 28, 2021, and the United States Senate unanimously approved his confirmation on November 19, 2021.

#Ohio #DOJ #USPol #Cincinnati

https://www.wlwt.com/article/kenneth-parker-termination-us-attorney-southern-ohio/63833276

DOJ statement

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdoh/pr/united-states-attorneys-office-announces-departure-kenneth-l-parker-us-attorney

Archive page should it disappear, https://archive.ph/y63oi

'It has become more potent' | Police caution
#Cincinnati, #Ohio Tri-State residents amid recent spike in overdose deaths

Police chief believes that shift is likely a result of a political push to shut down cartels and fentanyl. Because of that, he theorizes that dealers are mixing fentanyl with other substances in case part of their supply is cut off.

https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/cincinnati/it-has-become-more-potent-police-caution-tri-state-residents-amid-recent-spike-in-overdose-deaths

Welp! Thanks to Cincinnati's Black Community, Neo-Nazis Storming the Streets Messed Around and Found Out
#racism #civilrights #blackculture #blackcommunity #ohio #cincinnati
https://www.theroot.com/welp-thanks-to-cincinnatis-black-community-neo-nazis-1851762684?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=theroot_twitter

The Students Walk Out in #LosAngeles
A Report from the Streets

#CrimethInc, 2025-02-13

"In the opening weeks of Donald #Trump’s second presidency, some of the fiercest expressions of defiance have come from the communities that Trump is threatening to attack. In Los Angeles, students have engaged in weeks of walkouts and other protests against the mass deportations Trump promised. In #Cincinnati, the historically Black community #LincolnHeights responded to a #NeoNazi rally by chasing off the #WhiteSupremacists, burning their #swastika flags, and conducting an armed watch lest they attempt to return.

"Both of these communities draw on deep roots of resistance. The students in Los Angeles are walking out in the footsteps of previous student rebels, including those who participated in the historic protests of 2006 against the repression of the undocumented. People in Cincinnati rose in rebellion in 2001 against police violence, foreshadowing the movement that got underway in response to the murder of Oscar Grant in 2008 and arrived on the world stage in 2014 with the uprising in #Ferguson. In continuing these legacies, today’s protesters show how difficult it will be for Donald Trump, #ElonMusk, and other #racist #billionaires to control the population of this continent. They also point the way for others who are still trying to figure out how to defend themselves against the new regime.

"Here, participants in this month’s demonstrations in Los Angeles offer a short report from the streets."

Read more:
https://crimethinc.com/2025/02/13/the-students-walk-out-in-los-angeles-a-report-from-the-streets
#ResistFascism #Resistance #ResistRacism

#113 A poster by the French artist Jules Chéret showing samples of the printing inks manufactured by The Ault & Wiborg Co of Cincinnati, c.1910 #AultAndWiborg #JulesChéret #PrintingInks #Cincinnati #ArtNouveau #Art