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NKY COVID-19 complaints: maskless police, crowded warehouses Julia Fair Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
In August, a maskless police offi cer pulled over a pregnant woman in Boone County for expired tags. “I'm pregnant and high risk, and he was maskless and well within six feet of me,” the woman wrote. “He needlessly put my safety and the health of my pregnancy at risk.” The woman is one of the thousands of Northern Kentucky residents who submitted a complaint to the state about COVID-19 concerns in the region. State workers sifted through complaints about maskless police offi cers, crowded stores and warehouses, restaurants that defi ed physical distancing and mask mandates, backyard parties, and more. The Enquirer obtained the complaints and orders that closed businesses through Kentucky Open Records Act requests with the Kentucky Labor Cabinet and the Kentucky Public Protection Cabinet. See COMPLAINTS, Page 2A
Hundreds of people walk along the Roebling Suspension Bridge, as lights entitled, "Rumble" are projected on the bridge for Blink 2019 Thursday, October 10, 2019. PHOTOS BY CARA OWSLEY/THE ENQUIRER
Everything we miss about
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t’s been a year since we last Blinked. Or at least, it’s been a year since Greater Cincinnatians got to enjoy the weekend-long art, light and culture event
that last spanned two cities and 30 city blocks and had over one million guests. From Findlay Market to Covington, the event lasted four nights and gave us all a reason to stop and look up. In the year of the pandemic, one million guests would have been impossible, but we can look back on how much we had in 2019. Here are the fi ve things we miss the most about Blink: Sarah Fields, a current Amazon employee, protests the working conditions at the Amazon Fulfi llment Center on Friday, May 1, 2020 in Hebron, Kentucky. Fields said, "People are losing their lives and we are not being protected." MEG VOGEL/ THE ENQUIRER
CORRECTION: In a story that ran Oct. 8 (“Amy McGrath was a NKY tomboy who dreamed of flying. Now she’s aiming for Mitch McConnell”), the school Amy McGrath transferred to in seventh grade has been corrected. In seventh grade, she transferred to St. Pius X in Edgewood, not Notre Dame in Park Hills.
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1) Crowds Do you remember when we were allowed to be in groups of more than 10 in public? Blink was one of the last large scale events to take over the Cincinnati streets before the pandemic struck. There were people everywhere, walking in the middle of the street, crowding sidewalks and even overloading the Roebling Bridge at one point. At around 8:30 p.m. on the opening Thursday night of Blink in 2019, the Roebling Suspension Bridge was so packed that people were shoulder-to-shoulder as they made their way across. This was actually not supposed to happen. People were not supposed to be on the deck of the bridge (the part you normally drive on), which is also closed to vehicular traffi c for the festival. Nevertheless, thousands of people fi lled the deck, packed like sardines, some heading to Covington, others to The Banks.
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A building on Madison Avenue in Covington is projected with "I Spy with my Little Eye" by Brave Berlin Thursday, Oct 10, 2019.
The journey across the bridge took over 20 minutes and many said they experienced vertigo and nauseousness as the bridge shook.
2) The World’s Largest Disco Ball, y’all It wasn’t actually the world’s largest disco ball, it was the world’s largest mobile disco ball, but that didn’t stop us from gawking. Remember dancing? It was something we could do pre-pandemic, too. The disco ball was the centerpiece of a pop-up party in the middle of an empty parking lot. There was a fog machine, lights illuminating the whole street and of course, absolutely no social distancing. See BLINK, Page 2A
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