Patricia Gallagher Newberry

2 days ago | yahoo.com | Scott Wartman |Patricia Gallagher Newberry |Erin Glynn

This story has been updated with new information Hamilton County and the Bengals have reached an agreement to reach an agreement. The county announced on April 22 a memorandum of understanding to make $184 million in improvements to Paycor Stadium in the next year and reach a long-term agreement by June 30 of this year. The team would pay $120 million, and the county would pay $64.5 million. Under the deal the Bengals would renovate club lounges and suites as well as improve concessions.

Jan 24, 2025 | cincinnati.com | Patricia Gallagher Newberry

A Monday executive order from the Trump administration is raising questions about whether federal funding for the $3.6 billion Brent Spence Bridge Corridor Project is in jeopardy. President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order titled “Unleashing American Energy” that told federal agencies to “immediately pause disbursement of funds” allocated by the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and Inflation Reduction Act.

Jan 23, 2025 | yahoo.com | Patricia Gallagher Newberry

The Brent Spence Bridge Corridor Project will pollute the Ohio River and put more than a dozen plants and animals considered endangered or threatened at risk, according to a local nonprofit group that has raised objections to the bridge in two earlier legal actions. With its new effort, the Greater Cincinnati Coalition for Transit and Sustainable Development wants the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to shut down the project by denying what’s called a Water Quality Certification.

Jan 21, 2025 | cincinnati.com | Patricia Gallagher Newberry

Metro’s top executive will retire June 1 after 19 years with the transit agency.  Darryl Haley, 65, has been CEO and general manager of Metro since 2019. His five-year contract, which provided a salary of close to $332,000 last year, was set to expire in June. “Leading Metro has been the privilege of a lifetime,” he said in a press release.

Jan 21, 2025 | cincinnati.com | Patricia Gallagher Newberry |Quinlan Bentley

A Ku Klux Klan group – advertising a Maysville, Kentucky, "national office" and chapters in Ohio, Kentucky and three other states – is distributing election-themed literature in Northern Kentucky. The Ludlow Police Department posted a copy of a flyer on its Facebook page on Monday afternoon, with the headline "Leave Now. Avoid Deportation.""We are aware and have already taken one report for this disturbing and disgusting propaganda that is being passed around our community," the police post reads.