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MLK Jr. Coalition Cincinnati hosts 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington event Sunday

The next fire chief must create an environment and structure that embodies the new equity paradigm: a diverse, agile, culturally competent public safety force.

Ohio’s Hamilton County Clerk of Courts Aftab Pureval is heading to the November election after a promising showing in the May 4 Cincinnati mayoral primary election.

Voters in the city's nonpartisan primary were picking two finalists for mayor who will face off against each other in November. All but independent Najoli are Democrats.  The candidates fanned out across the city Tuesday, braving torrential downpours at times, in an effort to talk to voters.   The men are aiming for the city's top job, which pays $131,000 a year. This election comes in the wake of four council members over the last 14 months being arrested on corruption allegations. Term limits prevent Mayor John Cranley from running again, and of the council members elected in 2017 onl...

1:02 The mayor's race to come this fall will be a contest of contrasts – Pureval, the energetic 38-year-old who burst on the scene as a rock star candidate for clerk of courts and carried that charisma over into a losing campaign for Congress in 2018; versus Mann, an 81-year-old veteran of six decades in politics, a man who has been there and done that in nearly every aspect of city government. "You know, the city of Cincinnati is a tremendously complicated enterprise," Mann tells WVXU. "It's got over 6,000 employees, it spends $1.5 billion a year, we have 17 departments that provide an imp...