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Council usually allocates funding directly to specific private projects as part of the carryover budget, based on requests from organizations to individual council members. This year, city administration wants to have those organizations go through a formal request for proposals, or RFP, process.

A lengthy debate in a council committee Tuesday resulted in a compromise over the Affordable Housing Trust Fund, but not one most advocates are pleased with.

The city of Cincinnati officially honored the school on what's known as "Purple Friday" at an event in Washington Park Friday afternoon.

The pocket veto is an unintended loophole of charter language that allows the mayor to indefinitely postpone legislation, effectively killing it without any discussion. It sounds simple, but it's a bit more nuanced than it seems on the surface.

The $100 million Smale Riverfront Park originally opened in 2012, but a decade later its once-sloping shoreline is falling into the Ohio River.

Meeks Owens is proposing significant changes to the way the city funds human services and other outside nonprofits. Although this funding is less than 4% of the city’s $474 million General Fund, it dominates public and council discussion during budget season.

Cincinnati City Council recently used its executive session powers for the first time. It should keep using this power to handle sensitive matters.

There’s no road map for successfully bringing back a struggling neighborhood. On the west side, these residents and nonprofit leaders are figuring it out as they go.

Should council meet in secret to discuss union wages?. Some of the nine council members are ready to do so.

Issue 11 on the November ballot would get rid of the "pocket veto" and ensure all proposed legislation gets a fair shake in front of City Council.