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Greg Paeth is one of ten candidates for Covington City Commission. He is a journalist who worked for the Kentucky Post and is now President of the Old Seminary Square Neighborhood Association. Here is Paeth's campaign announcement:
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Greg Paeth, a long-time Covington resident who has been active as a volunteer in many Covington organizations for more than 20 years, filed today as a candidate for the Covington City Commission.|
“Like cities all over the country, Covington faces significant challenges in continuing to provide critical city services at a time when a weak economy has strangled business and job growth and left many people unemployed. Equally important is finding creative ways to grow the city, attracting new residents who can support businesses that might want to move into a vacant storefront in what was once Northern Kentucky’s most thriving business district,” said Paeth, who lives in the Old Seminary Square neighborhood.
“There are no simple answers to these complex problems. If there were, solutions would have been found decades ago,” he said. “I believe I can work together with other members of the commission and the city staff to develop a strategy that can help breathe some new life into Covington.”
Paeth is a former reporter and editor for The Kentucky Post and The Cincinnati Post, where he worked until the newspaper ceased publication at the end of 2007. Since the newspaper went out of business, he has written articles on a freelance basis for publications in Cincinnati and Lexington and Northern Kentucky University.
He is the current president of the Old Seminary Square Neighborhood Association and serves as its representative to the Covington Neighborhood Collaborative. He also is a member of the Westside Action Coalition and a member of the Covington Urban Partnership board that is working with the Covington Business Council on plans to create a Business Improvement District that would help attract both businesses and residents to the city. Paeth also is a member of the Downtown Center City Action Plan steering committee, the City of Covington’s Vacant Properties Review Commission and is a former member of the city’s Urban Design Review Board. He was one of the stewards who worked on the city-wide strategic plan that was put together several years ago under the leadership of former City Manager Jay Fossett.
Paeth is married to Beverly, an instructional coach with Covington Independent Schools. They have two grown sons, Christian and Joshua, who are married and have careers outside of Northern Kentucky. Greg and his wife also have four grandchildren: Jackson, Ella, Sophie and Xavier.
The River City News will publish campaign releases from each candidate as they come in.
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