What Can 52 Do For You?Cincinnati City Council candidate Mike Moroski asks What Can 52 Do For You?
He proposes that the city allocate money to neighborhoods not equally as is now done but based on population of the neighborhood. Neighborhoods are now all given $2,500 apiece (down significantly from 10-15 years ago). My bistro math indicates payouts would look something like this:

• English Woods - $177
• Hyde Park - $5,536
• Mt Adams - $647
• Northside - $3,263
• Oakley - $4,557
• Over the Rhine - $2,645
• Pendleton - $393
• Queensgate - $62
• South Cumminsville - $350
• Westwood - $13,088

What these various neighborhoods need, what they can afford on their own & what they pay in taxes could all come into play as well. This might be a start, although I don't know why you would even write a check for Queensgate's $62…

The Power of VictimhoodIn a recent Fiswarp article by "Local Expert" Dan Hurley, the author issued some thoughts about stabilising & re-invigorating Cincinnati's neighborhoods. He said:

First, will upwardly mobile newcomers to Over-the-Rhine find creative ways to live with, not just beside, the poor who have lived there for more than a century?
Second, can West Side neighborhoods quit bemoaning the influx of displaced African-Americans and build mixed-income, mixed-race neighborhoods?
If successful, they can provide an instructive model for residents of Hyde Park, Avondale and all of us that diverse, inclusive communities are more interesting, exciting and culturally richer places to live than what existed in the past.

But did the westies appreciate him suggesting they take a leadership role in the city?
Not on your life!
Instead they just wailed & moaned and did everything Hurley had mentioned was their current unsuccessful MO. They ain't changing a thing, just wallowing in their own self pity.

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