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by Michael Monks
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COVINGTON RANKS POORLY IN STATE CRIME REPORT
Our City is close to the top in several categories of crime across the state, including burglary, robbery, prostitution, arson, and more. (Thank goodness for Lexington!) A full breakdown of a year in crime in Covington and Kentucky -- at the link.Full story: The River City News
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MORE CITIES TO JOIN MERGED KENTON CO DISPATCH CENTER
Three more cities will join Covington in the new, consolidated Kenton County 911 Emergency Dispatch Center:
Kenton County Judge-executive Steve Arlinghaus said that the cities of Fort Wright, Bromley and Park Hills have told him they want in on the county’s dispatch services.Full story: Cincinnati Enquirer/Libby Cunningham
“Several others have expressed an interest but have not drafted any resolution in support,” he said. “We needed the commitment from them that their intentions are to join the county.”
It costs the county $4.9 million annually to run three emergency dispatch centers, and combining services would reduce costs to $4.1 million, Arlinghaus said.
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The Kenton County Fiscal Court will take up the issue of $6 fees on utility bills at Tuesday night's meeting. For the agenda, click here (PDF).
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DUKE ENERGY COULD BE FORCED TO REHIRE OUSTED CEO
After the merger of Duke Energy and Progress Energy earlier this month, the CEO was only on the job for a day before being removed (and walking away with a $44 million payout), but that could change:
The N.C. Utilities Commission’s chairman suggested Friday that state regulators could order Duke Energy Corp. to reinstate ousted CEO Bill Johnson as a condition of letting the Duke-Progress Energy merger stand, the Charlotte Business Journal reported.That could affect the predicted savings for customers.
Full story: Business Courier
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COMPANY THAT ABANDONED COVINGTON IN COURT OVER NEW BUILDING
Things are off to a rocky start for The Nielsen Company, which along with Omnicare created a huge vacancy in Covington office space when both companies moved across the river to Cincinnati, but it's not all puppies and rainbows to the north:
“I saw a flatbed and it had these big letters on it for a sign,” Joseph said.Full story: Cincinnati Enquirer/Kimball Perry
He was shocked, he said, because Columbia knew nothing about the Nielsen sign being placed on the building and hadn’t given permission for it. Nielsen, a consumer insights company best known for analysis of viewing behavior and demographics that helps determine TV ratings, brought its 500 jobs from Covington last year to the 29-story Cincinnati office building.
Lawsuits filed in Ohio and federal courts by Columbia accuse the city of Cincinnati of “hastily and surreptitiously” working for months with NNN TiC, which claims it owns the building, to circumvent zoning laws that prevented the sign’s erection.
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HOW KY'S HEALTH CARE EXCHANGE WILL LIKELY WORK
Kentucky's implementation of a key part of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, lovingly dubbed Obamacare, looks like good news for individuals, low-income folks, and small businesses in the Commonwealth:
Small businesses—those with fewer than 100 employees—will be able to visit insurance exchanges, too. Like individuals, small businesses will be able to gauge different plans and purchase one that's right for their workforce.More details on how the plan could work in Kentucky: WFPL
The Kaiser Foundation people say there are two options many businesses will likely have. First, they can choose a plan, either modest or generous, and offer it to all employees. Or, the business can choose a level of a plan (the Kaiser people compared them to “bronze, silver or gold”) and allow individuals to choose their insurer from within a specific range of options.
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QUICKIES
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Task force to study teacher retention in Kentucky WFPL
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Conservative Kentucky Club for Growth ranks state representatives and senators on fiscal issues State House & State Senate
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Governor Beshear discusses Kentucky gun laws in wake of Aurora, Colorado deadly movie theater shooting cn|2
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Investigation leads to another bust for child porn in Kentucky press release
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Did excess parking add $4 million to the development cost of Cincinnati's Mercer Commons? Urban Cincy
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Six die on Kentucky roadways last week press release
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Lexington's newspaper, the Herald-Leader, makes another round of deep cuts to staffing Herald-Leader
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American Idol auditions to make stop in Bowling Green next season Herald-Leader
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Sorry, UK football fans, Penn State's penalty does not mean the Wildcats won the 1999 Outback Bowl Courier-Journal
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DON'T MISS MONDAY MORNING'S NEWS!
A quick look back at a piece of history on one Covington corner; Covington's loss of businesses is Cincinnati's gain; Nostalgic road signs are one way to "cool-up" a strip of state highway; Plus, some adorable furry faces ready to be adopted. Click it.
The RC News: Monday Morning Round-Up
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KY TEEN WHO TWEETED ATTACKERS NAMES WON'T FACE CHARGES
This story about a girl who was attacked by two boys and then identified them on Twitter went viral, and maybe that's why she no longer faces a contempt charge:
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COVINGTON CAR DAMAGED DURING STORM LAST WEEK FOR SALE ONLINE
This vehicle popped up on Craiglist today:
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MORE PHOTOS OF STORM DAMAGE IN COVINGTON: The River City News
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WHEN THE COVINGTON STARS CHALLENGED THE CINCINNATI REDS
We come across this article from the August 12, 1875 edition of The Ticket, a short-lived Covington newspaper, by way of the March/April 2005 newsletter of the Kenton County Historical Society:
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JUST SAYIN'
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NKY CONGRESSMAN TOUTS HIGHWAY BILL'S BENEFITS FOR REGION
From US Representative Geoff Davis:
MAP-21 will provide $112 billion in surface transportation funding to States between fiscal years (FY) 2012 and 2014. Of that amount, $1.93 billion will go to Kentucky. Those funds, determined by formula, are passed to each State and territory. The General Assembly in Frankfort is responsible for making decisions about which projects to fund. This State control of federal dollars gives Kentucky the authority to advance projects like the Brent Spence Bridge replacement.Full column: Geoff Davis
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KY TEEN WHO TWEETED ATTACKERS NAMES WON'T FACE CHARGES
This story about a girl who was attacked by two boys and then identified them on Twitter went viral, and maybe that's why she no longer faces a contempt charge:
David Mejia, an attorney for one of the accused boys, says the motion to hold 17-year-old Savannah Dietrich of Louisville in contempt was withdrawn Monday.WPSD
Mejia says the decision had nothing to do with public sentiment in the case, although an online petition campaign had garnered more than 62,000 signatures. He said there's no need for the motion now that Dietrich spread word about the case over the Internet.
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COVINGTON CAR DAMAGED DURING STORM LAST WEEK FOR SALE ONLINE
This vehicle popped up on Craiglist today:
Here's the seller's description:
A tree fell on the car. It did not fall on the hood, the engine still runs fine. You must tow it away.The 1999 Honda Accord can be yours for $550. Check out the listing and another photo: Craigslist
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MORE PHOTOS OF STORM DAMAGE IN COVINGTON: The River City News
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WHEN THE COVINGTON STARS CHALLENGED THE CINCINNATI REDS
We come across this article from the August 12, 1875 edition of The Ticket, a short-lived Covington newspaper, by way of the March/April 2005 newsletter of the Kenton County Historical Society:
"The new Cincinnati Reds may be a very brilliant and beautiful club and worthy of occupying an immense amount of space in the Cincinnati papers, but it is strangeCheck out the 2005 newsletter by clicking here (PDF)
that they should start out to win glory by beating such little clubs as the Milfords and the Louisville Setting Hens-Eagles when they can get a game with the [Covington] Stars any day. The Stars challenged them two weeks since, and it looks a little as though the great club was alarmed."
Those of our readers who know the history of the original Red Stockings, know they were virtually unbeatable in the fust few seasons of their history. Begun in 1869 as the first professional base ball team (and the word was separated atthe time); the story goes that they played any and all comers. However, according to this article
they shied away fkom our own Covington Stars. The Stars established a field near 15" and Madison Avenue, and their field appears on the 1877 Covington Atlas. Their reputation was somewhat illustrious in that decade, but their story is somewhat incomplete. This one article seems to contim their better-than-average abilities.
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JUST SAYIN'
More here: NKU Memes
