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Good Morning! Southerly flow will persist through the day today with increased moisture and continued warm temperatures. The chance for showers and some thunder will increase tonight night ahead of a cold front that will cross the area into early Monday. Expect another warm and dry day today with high temps back into the upper 80s. Shower and thunder chances ramp up somewhat overnight tonight into Monday. Monday will start with a few showers around the region, but high pressure will quickly build back into the Ohio valley with cooler afternoon high temps in the mid to upper 70s for both Monday and Tuesday. — Jeff Creighton

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(Drawings: Sept. 21) Pick 3 (early): 0 5 0 Pick 4 (early): 9 0 8 8 Pick 5 (early): 7 6 6 9 8

THE NATION w- weather: s- sunny, pc- partly cloudy, sh- showers, t- thunderstorms, r- rain, sf- snow flurries, sn- snow, i- ice.

Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day

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FULL Oct. 13

(Drawings: Sept. 20) Pick 3 (late): 8 3 1 Pick 4 (late): 0 2 7 5 Pick 5 (late): 1 7 6 1 2 Rolling Cash 5: 4 14 15 22 24 Classic Lotto: Saturday’s jackpot was an estimated $3.3 million.

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LAST Oct. 21

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KENTUCKY

(Drawings: Sept. 21) Pick 3 (early): 8 9 4 Pick 4 (early): 5 1 5 4 (Drawings: Sept. 20) Pick 3 (late): 2 8 2 Pick 4 (late): 4 9 5 4 Cash Ball: 11 27 30 33, 15

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Licking (Falmouth) Little Miami (Milford) Great Miami (Hamilton) Whitewater (Brookville)

12.0 12.0 12.0 12.0

ALMANAC From Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport through 5 p.m. yest.

TEMPERATURE High/low ........................... 89/67 Normal high/low ............... 76/55 Record high ................. 97 (1940) Record low .................. 35 (1962) HUMIDITY High .................................... 86% Low ..................................... 35% PRECIPITATION Last 24 hours ...................... 0.00” Month to date .................... 0.49” Normal month to date ........ 1.81” Year to date ...................... 42.30” Normal year to date ......... 31.60”

Rising

Flood Stage

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Falling

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AIR QUALITY Pollution...................58/Moderate Main pollutant .....................Ozone Mold............................. 3076/High Pollen .......................56/Moderate Main pollen ... ragweed, elm, grass

(Drawings: Sept. 21) Daily 3 (early): 5 2 6 (SB: 3) Daily 4 (early): 5 9 1 5 (SB: 3) (Drawings: Sept. 20) Daily 3 (late): 4 6 9 (SB: 9) Daily 4 (late): 2 0 2 8 (SB: 9) Cash 5: 9 10 22 31 33 Hoosier Lotto: Saturday’s jackpot was an estimated $3.5 million.

MEGA MILLIONS

(Drawings: Sept. 20) 23 24 42 48 53 Megaball: 22 Megaplier: 2 Tuesday’s jackpot is an estimated $227 million.

POWERBALL

Saturday’s jackpot was an an estimated $80 million.

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It appears Republican Chris Monzel will attempt a political comeback a year after suﬀ ering one of the region’s biggest upset losses in recent memory. The veteran politician from Glendale has pulled petitions to run for state House against freshman Rep. Jessica Miranda, D-Forest Park, in the competitive 28th House District in northern Hamilton County. Political newcomer and Democrat Stephanie Summerow Dumas stunned the political establishment last year when she unseated Monzel on the Hamilton County Board of Commissioners. Monzel was the last Republican county commissioner, serving on the board since 2011. Prior to that, Monzel was a Cincinnati city councilman for 10 years. Monzel didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment Friday. Miranda won by 56 votes after absentee ballots put her ahead of incumbent Republican Rep. Jonathan Dever. Miranda thinks she’ll be tougher to beat next year. Monzel will have a tough time getting the suburban women to vote for him, she said. The “heartbeat” bill outlawing most abortions after six weeks, which passed the Republican-controlled Ohio General As-

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Fractured Dems must be careful with Portune’s seat Politics Extra Jason Williams Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

The rumor mill has been churning since Hamilton County Commissioner Todd Portune announced last week that he’s not running for re-election in 2020. Eric Kearney, Brigid Kelly, Alicia Reece and Rob Richardson Jr. are the names I’ve heard as potential successors to Portune, who’s expected to step down before his term ends on Jan. 2, 2021. Among them, Reece is the only one who’s publicly shown interest in the seat. Reece, former state lawmaker and Cincinnati vice mayor, picked up petitions the day Portune announced his forthcoming retirement. “My phone has been ringing off the hook with people who want me to run,” Reece told Politics Extra this week. This is new territory for the Hamilton County Democratic Party. They’ve rarely had the opportunity to fi ll a high-profi le seat since the GOP had long controlled most countywide executive offi ces up until a few years ago. Botch this and the county could end up with Stephanie Dumas 2.0, someone who’s not fi t to be commissioner. Or a misstep could give Republicans a shot at regaining a seat on the board

of commissioners. A big question is whether Portune, who’s battling cancer, will remain in offi ce through the March primary. If he does, it would avoid his appointed successor having to go through a primary. Regardless, someone is going to be appointed at some point – and Democrats have to do a better job of vetting candidates now that they’re in control. A fractured party needs to somehow come together and rally around someone who is going to have the citizenry’s best interests in mind. One thing the party shouldn’t do is let Portune – or any one or two individuals – hand pick his successor. Portune told PX he would like to have a say about who succeeds him. He felt completely ignored the last time he vacated a public offi ce early. That was in 2000, when he left Cincinnati City Council to become commissioner. Portune had given party leaders the names of six potential successors. None of them were picked, and instead John Cranley was chosen to fi nish out Portune’s term. Cranley, now mayor, and Portune have been butting heads on policy and projects ever since. Party leaders should defi nitely listen to Portune, and take his suggestions into consideration. He’s earned the right to be heard. Portune wouldn’t say who he’d like to succeed him, but

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it’s widely believed North Avondale’s Kearney is the commissioner’s preferred choice. They are former law partners, and Kearney stood alongside Portune at his press conference on Sept. 12. Kearney declined comment to Politics Extra. Kearney, CEO of the region’s African-American Chamber and a former state senator, is highly respected for helping to ﬁ x the state retirement fund. He’s also regarded for his ability to work across the aisle. He very well could end up being Portune’s heir apparent. But that’s a decision party leaders collectively need to make – not Portune alone. Several Democrats felt like it wasn’t a total team eﬀ ort when it came time to choose a candidate to run for commissioner last year. Democratic insiders have said a small faction strong-armed party leaders into backing Mount Healthy Mayor James Wolf as the candidate to run against Republican Commissioner Chris Monzel. Wolf supporters say that’s just not true. Regardless, Wolf never actually got to face Monzel. Wolf seemed to overlook that he had a primary against Dumas, the former Forest Park mayor. He sat on $30,000 and squandered the party’s endorsement in an embarrassing loss. Dumas went on to beat Monzel in a big year for county Democrats. It’s led to Democrats blaming Dem-

ocrats for the county commission ending up with Dumas, whose history of personal tax problems and other issues have raised questions about whether she’s fi t for the offi ce. It would behoove Democrats to fi nd someone to replace Portune who’s willing to take a stand against all the county’s plans to increase taxes. But if Portune’s successor is tax happy, it could give Republicans hope of winning back a seat in November 2020. Either Vice Mayor Christopher Smitherman or Councilwoman Amy Murray would likely be the GOP’s best chance for winning the seat. Republican Andy Black, a former Mariemont councilman, has already fi led to run for Portune’s seat. Kearney, Reece, Kelly and Richardson would all be solid, qualifi ed candidates. Kelly is a two-term state lawmaker. Richardson is UC’s former board president and has run unsuccessfully for mayor and state treasurer. They may end up squaring off in a primary, and the county would be better for it. What Democrats don’t want is for their appointee to be such a disaster that it opens the door for an unqualifi ed outsider from either party to win the seat. The county can’t aff ord a repeat of what happened in the 2018 commissioner’s race. Email: jwilliams@enquirer.com

6A ❚ SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2019 ❚ THE ENQUIRER

3 meetings to weigh in on possible sales tax hike Scott Wartman

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As Hamilton County’s government struggles to pay its bills, the three county commissioners are considering a sales tax hike. You can have your say at three public meetings in October. The tax hike would take the form of continuing a 0.25% sales tax set to expire in April 2020. Voters approved the tax in 2014 to pay for the $230 million in renovations to Union Terminal with the idea it would expire in 2020 fi ve years after it went into eff ect. If the commissioners decide to keep the 0.25% sales tax, Hamilton County’s sales tax rate would remain at 7%. County offi cials project a $20 million budget shortfall for next year as a result of rising costs and decreased revenue from the state. To pay for that, county staff has proposed keeping the 0.25% tax on the rolls indefi nitely after April 2020. The Hamilton County Board of Commissioners will decide by the end of October whether to increase the tax as part of Hamilton County’s $276 million budget. The three public meetings the county commissioners will hold on the sales tax will be:

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COLUMBUS – For months, the advice has been passed along among Ohio’s medical marijuana patient community: Don’t buy marijuana vape pens off the street – stick to legal, tested products. It’s advice that has again cropped up amid a rash of mysterious lung disease that has struck at least 530 people and killed eight. But are vaping products sold through Ohio’s medical marijuana program safe? Public health offi cials are warning people to cease all vaping until a cause for the illness has been determined. Meanwhile, Ohio medical marijuana businesses are distancing themselves from unregulated products believed to be the culprit in these cases. In Ohio, 90% of the 17 confi rmed cases involve vaping illegal cannabis products, but nicotine products were also used in many cases, according to the Ohio Department of Health. None of the cases has been linked to product sold at an Ohio medical marijuana dispensary. More than 57,000 Ohioans have registered under 21 qualifying medical conditions including HIV and cancer. State regulators say they’re talking with state health offi cials and can notify patients quickly or initiate a product recall if an ingredient is found to be a problem. “Regardless if there’s a connection or or not, we just want to make sure we’re staying on on top of this,” Greg McIlvaine, medical marijuana policy chief for the Ohio Department of Commerce, told The Enquirer.

What we know The illness has been described by treating physicians as resembling acute lipoid pneumonia, caused when oil enters the lungs. Symptoms include shortness of breath, cough, chest pain, nausea, vomiting, fever and abdominal pain. The exact cause hasn’t been determined. But all reported cases had a history of vape or e-cigarette use and many involved bootleg cannabis vape pens – handheld devices that heat an oil or liquid heats a liquid to produce vapor that is then inhaled. Only one reported case, in Oregon state, has been linked to a legal cannabis product. New York oﬃ cials tested cannabis and nicotine vape cartridges from people with the illness. They found found large amounts of vitamin E acetate, an oil used as a thickener, in all of the THC vapes but not the nicotine products.

Counterfeit packaging for popular vape brands like Heavy Hitters can be seen in a display case in a store in downtown Los Angeles on Aug. 28. Bootleggers eager to proﬁ t off unsuspecting consumers are mimicking popular, legal vape brands with untested cannabis oil. MICHAEL R. BLOOD/AP

“We take seriously the trust placed in us, and we will continue to operate at the highest standards possible to produce top-quality cannabis options – our patients deserve nothing less,” Firelands Scientifi c spokeswoman Cassie Neiden said in an email. Neiden said that doesn’t mean the company is claiming vaporization cannabis oil is a safer or healthier alternative to other methods of administration. Cure Ohio’s vape oil contains botanical terpenes that do not come from cannabis, and company offi cials note they have passed state tests. “That does not happen in the black market. We’re incredibly clear about exactly what’s in our product,” Cure Ohio Chief Operating Offi cer Ryan Smith said. “We want patients to have pharmaceutical-grade medicine. That’s what we’re producing.” Ohio does not require the actual vape cartridges be tested for potential metal leakage, which was a problem in Michigan earlier this year. Several companies have voluntarily had empty cartridges tested at the state’s two operating testing labs.

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Vitamin E acetate is found in lotions and skincare products, but little is known about its eﬀ ects when inhaled. The additive was not found in nicotine vapes also used by the New York patients. The federal Food and Drug Administration has not identiﬁ ed a single ingredient in common among all the samples it has tested. The FDA is testing products from Ohio and other states for a range of chemicals: nicotine, THC and other marijuana compounds, cutting agents, additives, pesticides, opioids and toxins.

them. All medical marijuana products are tested at multiple stages for toxic metals, pesticides, bacteria, residual solvents from extraction methods and other harmful contaminants. The labs also test for the amount of active compounds, called cannabinoids, present, including tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD). Medical marijuana businesses say testing sets apart their products from those sold on the illicit market at half the price or less.

What’s in Ohio’s vape products?

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Ohio does not have a list of banned additives for medical marijuana vaping liquids and cartridges. But there are some restrictions. Non-marijuana ingredients must be nontoxic and safe for human consumption and can only come from licensed and regulated sources that comply with state and federal laws. Food grade glycerin and propylene glycol, used as base liquids for vaping oils, are allowed but none of the products currently on the market use

None of Ohio’s medical marijuana vape manufacturers uses vitamin E acetate or other cutting agents in their products, the companies told The Enquirer. Vaping oils and cartridges sold by Standard Wellness Company, Grow Ohio and Firelands Scientiﬁ c do not contain any non-cannabis additives. The companies make their oils by extracting cannabinoids as well as terpenes, compounds that add ﬂ avor and aroma.

Health offi cials and physicians have told consumers to avoid vaping marijuana or switch to other methods, including smoking. But in Ohio, state law prohibits patients from smoking medical marijuana. State lawmakers crafting the law said they couldn’t support the idea of someone “smoking their medicine.” Most Ohio patients who vape are vaporizing dried fl ower, or bud. That could change as cheaper vape oils and products such as disposable vape pens become more widely available. Dr. Amy Acton, director of the Ohio Department of Health, is mirroring the CDC’s advice and recommending patients stop vaping. “The illness is very, very severe and we just don’t know enough yet,” Acton said in an interview. “They’re looking into all possibilities from devices to what people are buying off the street to what people are buying off the shelf.” But Acton also understands that some patients can’t take an edible, which is absorbed through the digestive tract, or other form of marijuana to treat their symptoms. Acton said patients who are concerned should talk with their health care provider about the possible risks and benefi ts of continuing use. Medical marijuana patients can report adverse eff ects to the state’s tollfree help line 1-833-464-6627. Anyone experiencing symptoms of the illness should contact their doctor.

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When the rain fi nally stopped, Norbert Werner had $70,000 worth of damage in the basement of his Edgewood home. The washer and dryer were shot. So was a player piano he restored fi ve years earlier. This is how Werner remembers the July 15 storm. It was just one of the heavy rainfalls this summer that left Northern Kentucky residents with damaged homes and a lingering sewer stench. Werner was one of the 139 residents who fi led a fl ood-related claim for their damages this year with Sanitation District No. 1, the government entity responsible for 1,600 miles of sanitarysewer system pipeline that run beneath neighborhoods. Many fi led claims to avoid “fi nancial hardships,” as one homeowner put it. SD1’s insurance provider denied every fl ood-related claim, according to a review of SD1 insurance claims and denial letters The Enquirer obtained through a Kentucky Open Records Act request. The insurance provider, Collins and Company, wrote in its letters that the damages were linked to “capacity issues,” which they don’t cover. That’s not how it works across the river in Hamilton County. The Metropolitan Sewer District, which serves Hamilton County residents in Ohio, does specifi cally cover damages “caused by inadequate capacity or negligent maintenance,” according to its website. It doesn’t do it through insurance. Instead, that county sets aside about $1.1 million a year to settle about 180 damage claims related to its Sewer Backup program, said Metropolitan Sewer District Communications Manager Deb Leonard. The pipes in Northern Kentucky couldn’t handle the heavy storms. It’s up to homeowners to make sure they’re “properly” insured for such events, SD1 spokesman Chris Cole said. Werner tried to get fl ood insurance. He didn’t qualify. His home insurance didn’t cover his damages either. “One organization points their fi nger at the other one, and then (they) point it back,” Werner said. “It’s like they don’t care for the residents here at all.”

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Norbert Werner stands in flood waters and talks with his neighbor as he clears the area of logs to help the water drain faster. PROVIDED/NORBERT WERNER

same insurance claim denial letter that blamed “capacity issues,” which meant they were all out of luck. When the district grew it agreed to maintain the existing systems. It has “no obligation,” to increase pipe sizes or system capacity to meet “current regulatory standards,” said SD1’s Cole. “Capacity issues are the direct result of an inundation of water that our systems, for practical and economic reasons, are not designed to handle,” said Cole. “Floods, tornadoes, lightning, etc., are acts of God and should be properly insured by the property owner.”

This isn’t a new problem in Northern Kentucky Norbert Werner of Edgewood goes through documents Sept. 14 that were destroyed after his basement flooded. Werner was one of 139 residents who ﬁ led a claim for damages with Sanitation District No. 1. CARA OWSLEY/THE ENQUIRER

her basement. The damages will be less this time, she told herself. Nothing could be as devastating as losing the plaster footprints cast of her son, who died when he was 3 days old. After that ﬂ ood, Streutker spent hundreds of dollars raising the shelves to prevent future heartbreak. “I had a lot of his stuﬀ that I just, I just can’t get that back,” Streutker said. About two miles away Edgewood

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Randy Fitzwater looked at his yard in Covington and recalled each storm that fl ooded his property since the 1980s. The night of July 15 wasn’t any diff erent. “We all got fl ooded out that night. There was about 12 families that lost everything,” Fitzwater said. He fl ipped through the photo album labeled “fl ood pictures” and shook his head. The photos look like duplicates of his fence submerged in murky waters. The marked dates give clues that they’re diff erent: 1979, 1993, 2002. His wife was born in the house, he explained. They can’t leave. It’s their See FLOODS, Page 12A

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home. In 2007, the federal government noticed what was happening in Fitzwater’s yard and throughout Northern Kentucky. The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ordered the district to make at least $880 million of “extensive improvements” to its sewage systems to stop overfl ow of untreated sewage and to control overfl ows of sewage and stormwater, according to the 2007 settlement. In Ohio, Hamilton County’s Metropolitan Sewer District also faced a federal mandate in 2004 to reduce sewer overfl ows into local streams and rivers. Federal and state regulators approved a plan for $2 billion worth of storm and sewer projects for that agency to complete. First, SD1 had until 2025 to complete their mandate. It got an extension in February that gave it until 2040 to spend an estimated $1.3 billion to comply with the federal Clean Water Act of 1972. The delay made improvements more aff ordable for SD1 customers, said Executive Director Adam Chaney in a news release about the extension. He said it allowed SD1 to spread costs over a longer period to reduce the cost for customers. Those customers come together as neighbors on Fitzwater’s street after each fl ood subsides. They place twin

Pushed to consider leaving home Steutker thought about selling her Erlanger home. She said she feels it may be the only way out of the stress each fl ood brings. She’s already spent about $26,000 trying to fi x the issues. Werner has similar thoughts about leaving his Edgewood home. Memories keep his family there, he said. His wife grew up in the house and now his kids do the same. Fitzwater doesn’t think anyone would buy his house in Covington, but his sentiment to stay is the same as Werner’s. Fitzwater has seen families move in and quickly leave. Like that house over there, he pointed out. “No one told her it fl oods,” he said.

Randy Fitzwater sits on his porch in Covington and looks at photos of his flooded home dating back to the 1980s. JULIA FAIR/THE ENQUIRER

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Ex-Bengal: Assault accusation is extortion Kevin Grasha

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In competing lawsuits fi led Thursday, a woman accuses former Bengal Chinedum Ndukwe of sexually assaulting her, while Ndukwe says he is a victim of an extortion attempt. The sexual assault allegations were reported to Cincinnati police Aug. 24, a report shows, two days after the woman says Ndukwe groped and kissed her at a work meeting, then later forced his hand into her pants and touched her genitals. No charges have been fi led against Ndukwe, who owns a Cincinnatibased real estate and development fi rm, Kingsley and Company. Police records say an investigation is pending. But on Thursday, Ndukwe sued the woman, her husband and their Atlanta-based attorneys “proactively,” a statement said, to challenge false claims that “would harm my personal and professional reputation.” Ndukwe’s lawsuit said the woman’s attorneys demanded $10 million. It says they “made it clear that they would immediately fi le a civil complaint if (Ndukwe) did not meet their demands.” It says the woman’s claims are baseless and that he has passed a polygraph test.

Later Thursday, records show, the woman fi led a lawsuit outlining her allegations. Both were fi led in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court. One of the woman’s attorneys, James L. Walker Jr., told The Enquirer that the extortion claim is an attempt to intimidate the lawyer. He said that Ndukwe had given the woman $1,000 in $100 bills “in hopes of buying her off .” “He can try to twist this anyway he wants to, but Mr. Ndukwe knows he assaulted our client and thought that he could buy her silence,” Walker said. “His attempt to further coerce her by fi ling a frivolous lawsuit … further validates his desperation.” The allegations date to Aug. 22, a Thursday. The woman was working for Ndukwe’s company as a summer intern and attended a work meeting with him at his request, her lawsuit says. The meeting took place at a Hyde Park restaurant, and Ndukwe then drove her to a Clifton-area restaurant for another meeting. At that second meeting, the lawsuit says Ndukwe groped her, smacked her buttocks and kissed her, according to the lawsuit. She told him to stop, pushed him away and then told him to drive her to her car, which was Downtown, the lawsuit says. Ndukwe, however, insisted that she drive, it says, and he then told her

Chinedum Ndukwe during the ﬁ rst day of training camp with the Cincinnati Bengals in July 2009. ENQUIRER FILE

to stop at one of his construction sites, where it alleges Ndukwe tried to force the woman to have sex with him. It says that after she fought him oﬀ , Ndukwe then urinated on the concrete ﬂ oor in front of her. According to the lawsuit: The woman then drove Ndukwe’s car with him in the passenger seat to retrieve her car. During the drive, it says Ndukwe fondled, groped and kissed her as she drove. At one point, the lawsuit says, he forced his hand into her pants and touched her genitals. “For the entire trip, from the Defendant Ndukwe’s construction worksite

to Plaintiff Jane Doe’s car,” the lawsuit says, “Defendant Ndukwe continually committed sexual battery and assault against her until she arrived to her car and fl ed.” Ndukwe’s lawsuit describes a Sept. 13 call involving the woman, her husband, their attorneys and Ndukwe’s attorney. In that call, it says both Walker and the other attorney repeatedly threatened to sue Ndukwe if he did not “make a substantial payment.” Among other things, that lawsuit says they threatened to pursue criminal charges and contact the media to arrange “an infl ammatory press conference to humiliate, embarrass and damage” Ndukwe. Walker said the police investigation was already underway at that point. He also said he never demanded $10 million. He said he has pushed for money to pay for a lifetime of therapy and counseling for both the woman and her husband, an amount he said could be in the millions of dollars. Walker also said he wants Ndukwe to apologize to the woman and get therapy. In a statement, Ndukwe, who played for the Bengals from 2007 to 2010 and graduated from the University of Notre Dame, said he will “vigorously fi ght these false claims to prove my innocence.” His attorney, Scott Croswell, could not be reached for comment.

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Pork schnitzel sandwich from The Lubecker is photographed with Helmut and Connie Keintz at the opening day of Oktoberfest Zinzinnati in Downtown Cincinnati on Friday. PHOTOS BY JEFF DEAN/THE ENQUIRER

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Well, this was a new experience: trying out the Oktoberfest food in the middle of the day. For the fi rst time, Cincinnati’s favorite German festival started at 11 a.m. Friday. That gave me a chance to try some new and some standard dishes early and help you steer your way through the feast. Some things to try: Get to The Lubecker. Their pork schnitzel sandwich, which is built on bread from local artisan bakery Allez, is the best thing at the fest. Lightly crunchy and juicy pork cutlets, lettuce and tomato (about the only vegetables I came across) on the chewy ciabatta-style bread. I decided this year to make faceoff s between some dishes that had multiple examples. First up: sauerkraut balls. There are three or four versions to choose from. I liked the Mecklenburg Garden’s version, which seems diff erent – and better – than previous years,

but really my favorite were the ones from Hey Hey with added goetta. Not too hard-fried, with a moist, tangy ﬁ lling. Then, I matched up goulash: only two contenders there. Hey Hey’s is strongly paprika-spiced, as is traditional for a Hungarian goulash, and served over homemade noodles. Kinderhaus’ seemed sweeter, maybe tomatoey, over spaetzle that looked delicious, but were lost in the stew. And I tried three versions of bienenstich, the “bee sting” cake, with a creamy ﬁ lling and a topping made of almonds and honey. Elli’s Pastries versions is, I imagine, the more authentic version, but I liked the moister, more creamy piece from Goetta and Sweets (or Suessikeiten). And then, I tried the “bienenstich” from Busken’s Halo Donut truck. Very, very, loosely interpreted. Vanilla ice cream, with coconut and pecans and chocolate, inside a doughnut that’s lightly grilled. Other notables included the goetta Continued on next page

Goulash from Hey Hey is photographed at the opening day of Oktoberfest Zinzinnati in Downtown Cincinnati on Friday.

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UNITED NATIONS – Fresh off the climate strike that took hundreds of thousands of young people out of classrooms and into the streets globally, youth leaders gathered at the United Nations on Saturday to demand radical moves to fi ght climate change. “We showed that we are united and that we, young people, are unstoppable,” said 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg of Sweden, who started the climate strike movement with her lone protest in front of her country’s parliament about a year and a half ago. More than 700 mostly young activists attended the fi rst of its kind Youth Climate Summit, according to Luis Alfonso de Alba, the U.N. special climate summit envoy. Friday’s strike across six continents and Saturday’s youth conference presage a full-on climate conference this week at the U.N. General Assembly, which has placed climate change front and center as world leaders gather for the annual meeting. Activists at Saturday’s gathering demanded money to help poorer nations adapt to a warming world and provide greener energy. They also insisted that the world wean itself quickly from coal, oil and gas that cause climate change. “Stop the criminal contaminant behavior of big corporations,” said Argentine climate activist Bruno Rodriguez. “Enough is enough. We don’t want fossil fuels anymore.” Jayathma Wickramanayake, the U.N. Secretary-General’s youth envoy, called climate change “the defi ning issue of our time. Millions of young people all over the world are already being aff ected by it.”

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The Youth Climate Summit at the U.N. on Saturday brings together young activists who want action on global warming. JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

During Thunberg’s short lifetime, for example, the Earth has already warmed 0.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Fiji climate activist Komal Karishma Kumar said global warming is not just taking a toll on the planet but on her generation, especially people from vulnerable places like her Pacific island nation. “Young people from diﬀ erent parts of the world are living in constant fear and climate anxiety, fearing the future, the uncertainty of a healthy life or a life for their children at all,” Kumar said. She added: “I do not want our future generations to submerge with our sinking islands.” After listening to Thunberg and other youth climate activists, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres credited young people with transforming him from a pessimist to an optimist in the ﬁ ght against global warming. Guterres said he sees “a change in momentum” going into Monday’s Climate Action Summit and the U.N. General Assembly gathering of world

leaders that starts Tuesday, telling the youths, “You have started this movement.” “I encourage you to keep your initiative. Keep your mobilization and more and more to hold my generation accountable,” Guterres said. “My generation has largely failed until now to preserve both justice in the world and to preserve the planet.” Kumar told Guterres that “we will hold you accountable, and if you do not, remember we will mobilize to vote you out.” The youth activists brainstormed about what they could do to change the trajectory of an ever-warming planet and how they can help the world adapt to climate’s changes. There was talk of hashtags, entrepreneurial ideas and climate art and poetry. “Be that hummingbird that puts out the forest ﬁ re by fetching water with its small beak as all the other animals, including the elephant, told her it was impossible,” said Kenyan activist Wanjuhi Njroge.

BAGHDAD – The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Saturday for a minibus bombing in Iraq a day earlier that killed 12 people outside the Shiite holy city of Karbala. The brief claim was carried by the group’s Aamaq new agency. The charred minibus was still on the road near the city on Saturday morning. The bombing was one of the biggest attacks targeting civilians since the extremist group was declared defeated inside Iraq in 2017. The group’s sleeper cells continue to wage an insurgency and carry out sporadic attacks across the country. In the wake of the bombing, which also wounded ﬁ ve people, Iraqi forces have increased their presence and security measures around Karbala. Iraq’s prime minister, Adel AbdulMahdi, said security forces detained a man suspected of leaving the bomb on the bus. The statement gave no further details about the suspect. Speaker of Parliament Mohamad al-Halbousi expressed his frustration with the repeated “failures of intelligence agencies” to prevent such attacks. His statement added that security plans should be reviewed and intelligence-gathering intensiﬁ ed. On Saturday, security was tight on the roads entering Karbala, with added checkpoints searching cars.

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Judge weighs when to split families ACLU says separations being done over dubious allegations, minor transgressions Elliot Spagat

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SAN DIEGO – A federal judge said Friday that he was struggling with a request to defi ne more narrowly what behavior justifi es separating children from their parents at the border after complaints that the Trump administration has abused discretionary powers to split families under limited circumstances, like criminal history or questions about whether the adult is really the parent. The American Civil Liberties Union argued the government has been separating families over dubious allegations and minor transgressions such as traffi c off enses. In a court fi ling, it reported one parent was separated for having damaged property valued at $5, and a 1-yearold was taken away after an offi cial criticized her father for letting her sleep with a wet diaper. Justice Department attorney Scott Stewart acknowledged some mistakes but said the government has a good system in place. U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw called it a “thorny issue” and didn’t

A federal judge is considering a complaint from the ACLU that children are being separated from parents over trivial offenses. GREGORY BULL/AP FILE

rule immediately on the ACLU’s request to intervene during a two-hour hearing, which is unusually long for him. He said a parent convicted of assault with a deadly weapon may be “the most loving, protective parent” and present no danger to the child, but is probably unﬁ t to be held in a family immigration detention center. “It’s a unique context,” he said. The administration separated 955 children from their parents from

June 26, 2018, when Sabraw halted the practice except in limited circumstances, to July 20, 2019. The government noted that it accounted for a tiny percentage of the more than 500,000 arrests and detentions of people who crossed the Mexican border in families during that time, suggesting restraint. A two-page memo issued a day after Sabraw’s 2018 order by Kevin McAleenan, then Customs and Bor-

der Protection commissioner and now acting Homeland Security secretary, describes criteria for separating families, including a parent being convicted of a felony or “violent misdemeanors,” having a communicable disease or presenting “a danger to the child.” The Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley sector in Texas, the busiest corridor for illegal crossings, separates families if a parent has been convicted of crimes including assault, battery, burglary, resisting arrest, hit-and-run and disorderly conduct, Lloyd Easterling, who oversees processing and prosecutions in the sector, said in a court fi ling last week. “Simple thefts,” fraud, minor drug or traffi c off enses and driving while intoxicated without an aggravating factor generally do not result in separation. Allegations of criminal histories or gang affi liations in another country are more challenging to prove, but biometric checks and photographic comparisons usually provide answers, Easterling said. The two sides argued over how widely to use rapid DNA tests on adults suspected of lying that they are parents of a child. The government says expanding use of the tests, which deliver results in about 90 minutes and have been tested along the Mexican border, would pose fi nancial and logistical obstacles.

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BEAUMONT, Texas – The widespread damage brought to the Houston area by one of the wettest tropical cyclones in U.S. history came into broader view Saturday, as ﬂ oodwaters receded to reveal the exhausting cleanup eﬀ ort that lies ahead. Hundreds of homes and other buildings in the region, extending

eastward from Houston and across the Louisiana state line, were damaged by Imelda, as the one-time tropical storm dumped more than 40 inches of rain in some spots and was being blamed for at least ﬁ ve deaths. Authorities raised the storm’s death toll to ﬁ ve, saying it is believed to have killed a 52-year-old Florida man who was found dead Thursday in his stranded pickup along Interstate

10 near Beaumont. Jeff erson County spokeswoman Allison Getz said that although fl oodwaters seeped into Mark Dukaj’s truck, investigators don’t believe he drowned, though they do believe his death is storm-related. A section of the highway just east of Houston remained closed Saturday after at least two runaway barges struck two bridges carrying eastbound and westbound traffi c.

A truck drives on a southeast Texas highway flooded from the remnants of Tropical Storm Imelda on Friday. JON SHAPLEY/HOUSTON CHRONICLE VIA AP

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City to settle suit in Republican National Convention flag protest

Greek island refugee camp too crowded to house newcomers

Syria says it captured drone near Israeli-occupied Golan

BOSTON – U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III formally declared his candidacy for the U.S. Senate on Saturday, becoming the fi rst member of the Kennedy dynasty to run for the upper chamber of Congress from Massachusetts since Edward M. Kennedy. The Democrat held a kickoff in East Boston, where the Kennedy clan fi rst settled after arriving from Ireland well over a century ago. Joe Kennedy is a grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, who was attorney general in his own brother John F. Kennedy’s White House and was a senator in his own right.

CLEVELAND – An attorney for a protester arrested during the 2016 Republican National Convention says Cleveland will pay his client $50,000 to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit. Attorney Subodh Chandra said that in July 2016, Richard Newburger joined protesters preparing to burn an American fl ag when they were assaulted by police. The fl ag burning was led by Gregory Lee Johnson, whose arrest at the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas led to a U.S. Supreme Court decision invalidating state fl ag-burning laws.

ATHENS, Greece – A perpetually full refugee camp on the island of Lesbos can’t accommodate any more asylum-seekers after the number of people housed reached 400% of the camp’s intended capacity, authorities said Friday. Migrants who made it to Lesbos were sleeping in the open or in tents outside the Moria refugee camp, and the population inside has reached 12,000. The Moria camp was built to host 3,000 refugees. The island authorities said at least 410 migrants coming in boats from Turkey reached Lesbos on Friday.

DAMASCUS, Syria – Syrian authorities Saturday captured and dismantled a drone rigged with cluster bombs near the border with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, state news agency SANA said. SANA posted photos of the unmanned aerial vehicle. Israel conducts airstrikes and missile attacks in Syria but says it targets the bases of Iranian forces and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in Syria. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said it was not clear who downed the drone.

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Democratic chiefs allow Iowa ‘satellite’ caucuses need to elect Democrats up and down the ticket next November.” The state party tested the satellite program in 2016. Groups of people who “demonstrated a clear need” were able to petition the party to add nontraditional caucus locations. Four sites were approved: The Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown, a senior-living facility in Iowa City, and the behavioral health institutes in Woodward and Glenwood. Those caucuses were held at the same day and time as that year’s traditional caucuses. Price said Thursday that petitioners for the 2020 caucuses who show a demonstrable need may get approval to have their satellite caucuses at a diﬀ erent time. “It still has to take place on the same day, and we prefer it to take place as close to (7 p.m.) as possible,” he said. Price said he would convene a satellite caucus review committee made up of State Central Committee members who have pledged to remain neutral in the caucuses. Any Iowa Democrat would be able to petition that committee to host a satellite caucus location before Nov. 18. The sites could be in-state or out-of-state locations. The committee will approve those petitions by Dec. 16 and make the list public by Dec. 18, he said.

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DES MOINES, Iowa – Iowa Democrats will be able to petition the state party to host “satellite” caucuses at nursing homes, work sites, out-ofstate college campuses and even overseas in 2020. The plan was approved by the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee on Friday, just weeks after the same committee rejected Iowa’s plan to host telephone-based virtual caucuses. The Iowa Democratic Party proposed its virtual caucuses as a way to meet a DNC mandate that caucus states fi nd some way to allow people to participate without being physically present on caucus night in an eff ort to make the process more inclusive and accessible. But that plan was rejected earlier this month – less than fi ve months before the caucuses – because of unresolved cybersecurity concerns. The committee said there was no technology-based system that it would approve. Iowa Democrats scrambled to come up with a replacement plan that could still expand access, considering such things as absentee ballots and proxy votes. Though the plan approved Friday by the committee still will require

Gary Weaver leads caucusgoers through the process in his home in Rippey, Iowa, in 2016. MICHAEL ZAMORA/THE DES MOINES REGISTER

Iowans to be physically present at a caucus, committee members and Iowa Democrats said they were pleased it does something to expand access to people who may not be able to travel to a traditional precinct site. “This is a solid plan, and it allows us to meet the goals we have set as a party,” state party chairman Troy Price said Thursday as he described

the proposal on a call with Iowa’s State Central Committee. “More people will be able to participate. More people will have the tools they need to participate. We are making the largest investment that we have ever made to ensure the accessibility of our process. And we will be living up to our ultimate goal, which is to ensure that we have the foundation we

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday he plans to ban military-style assault riﬂ es if reelected. The announcement comes as he is dealing with backlash from recently uncovered instances of him wearing dark makeup years ago in forms of brown- or blackface. “We know you do not need a military-grade assault weapon, one designed to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time, to take down a deer,” he said while speaking in Toronto. Trudeau is running to keep his seat in Canada’s Oct. 21 election. A photo of Trudeau dressed as a character from “Aladdin” with his skin painted dark brown was published by Time magazine on Wednesday. Two more instances were revealed since then. After the bombshell photos came out, Trudeau’s Conservative Party opponent Andrew Scheer said Trudeau is “someone who is not ﬁ t to govern this country.” When he announced the new gun control plan, Trudeau was speaking

in Toronto’s Greektown neighborhood, which was the site of a shooting that left two people dead and injured 13 more last year. “Gun crime in Canada is on the rise. It’s a fact,” he said. “Frankly, I don’t understand how anyone could look at this alarming trend and conclude that we need less gun control. But that’s for the Conservative leaders to explain to Canadians.” The Canadian Liberal Party’s push comes at the same time the American Democratic Party is splintered over a similar proposal. Some progressive lawmakers have supported a mandatory buyback and ban of certain assault weapons, a notion spearheaded by former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, but those progressives are opposed by other Democrats and Republicans who say such a proposal makes it more diﬃ cult to reach bipartisan agreement on new gun control measures in the wake of recent mass shootings in the U.S. Trudeau said he would implement a buyback program for militarygrade weapons that were legally purchased.

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Area 51 party fails for lack of Earthlings Ken Ritter

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HIKO, Nev. – The promoter of an event set up for Earthlings to party around the “Storm Area 51” internet craze in the Nevada desert has pulled the plug due to low attendance, while the host of a festival for several thousand people in the tiny town of Rachel said Saturday her show will go on. “Area 51 Basecamp” organizer Keith Wright said that after drawing just 500 attendees at a Friday event planned for 5,000 at the Alien Research Center souvenir shop in Hiko, he had to pull the plug. “We put on a safe event for the people that showed up,” Wright said. “But we had to make the decision today because it costs tens of thousands of dollars to staff each day. It was a gamble fi nancially. We lost.” Several dozen campers still at the site can stay until Sunday, he added. In Rachel, Little A’Le’Inn owner Connie West said she was sad to hear the Hiko festival didn’t succeed. West, in a voice hoarse from stress and lack of sleep, said a noonto-midnight slate of “Alienstock” event musical entertainment will continue for the several thousand revelers camping on her property and nearby federal land. “This is the most fabulous time,” West said. “I’m just so grateful that people came. This is their event as much as it is mine.” Lincoln County Sheriff Kerry Lee called activities “pretty calm” early Saturday in Rachel and Hiko. In Nye County, Sheriff Sharon Wehrly reported that no one showed up at a main entrance and an auxiliary gate at the once-secret Area 51 U.S. Air Force facility.

English record producer and DJ Paul Oakenfold performs at the Alien Research Center during a party and gathering organized in Hiko, Nevada, on Friday night. ETIENNE LAURENT/EPA-EFE

Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks in Washington on Aug. 31. CLIFF OWEN/AP

Ginsburg hits the road, proves vitality, longevity Justice not letting bouts with cancer stop her Richard Wolf USA TODAY

WASHINGTON – Over her 861⁄ 2 years on earth, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been lauded as a women’s rights pioneer, a Supreme Court justice and a cultural icon. These days, she receives ovations just for staying on the job. To satisfy some liberal allies, she must do that for another 16 months. Fresh oﬀ three weeks of radiation treatment for her fourth bout with cancer, the woman fondly known as the “Notorious RBG” is traveling the nation giving speeches, staging conversations and accepting awards and honorary degrees. By demonstrating her vitality before adoring audiences, she hopes to tamp down concerns about her longevity. “As cancer survivors know, that dread disease is a challenge, and it helps to know that people are rooting for you. Now, it’s not universal,” she quipped Thursday night at the famed 92nd Street Y in New York City. She

vowed to stay on the job “as long as I’m healthy and mentally agile.” Ginsburg must remain on the nation’s highest court at least until January 2021 to avoid giving President Donald Trump and a Republicancontrolled Senate the opportunity to replace her. Now split 5-4 and with John Roberts in the chief justice’s chair, the Supreme Court has been less reliable than conservatives would like. With the help of Roberts or another conservative justice last term, the court’s four liberals held sway in as many 5-4 decisions as their counterparts. But add a sixth conservative justice and “it becomes so much more diffi cult,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of CaliforniaBerkeley School of Law, who caught fl ak in 2014 for suggesting Ginsburg should step down while President Barack Obama and a Senate Democratic majority could have replaced her. If Democrats eventually prevail in confi rming a liberal-leaning justice to their liking, Chemerinsky says, “This could be the swing vote down the road.” Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall faced a similar choice in 1991.

With his health declining as he approached his 83rd birthday, he retired during the third year of Republican George H.W. Bush’s presidency. The New York Times headline read: “Marshall retires from high court; blow to liberals.” The lone statement issued by the court after Ginsburg’s latest bout with pancreatic cancer was upbeat. “The tumor was treated defi nitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body,” it said. “No further treatment is needed at this time.” The statement was issued Aug. 23, and three days later Ginsburg was at the University of Buff alo to receive an honorary degree. If Ginsburg’s health holds out, next year’s presidential and Senate elections will decide whether Democrats or Republicans choose her successor. “It seems like for more than a decade, Supreme Court observers have been trying to guess Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s last day as a justice. It’s a hopeless eff ort,” said Elizabeth Wydra, president of the liberal Constitutional Accountability Center.

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BENEFITS AND BASHES

SUNDAY, SEPT. 22 Brews + Bulldogs: 3, noon, Braxton Brewing, 27 W. 7th St., Covington. Benefits Queen City Bulldog Rescue. eventbrite.com. Cincinnati Avant-Garde Art & Craft Show 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Oasis Golf Club & Conference Center, 902 LovelandMiamiville Road, Loveland. $3. Benefits Bake Me Home. concert:nova Tribute to Sallie Wadsworth 2 p.m., Carnegie Center of Columbia Tusculum, 3738 Eastern Ave., Columbia-Tusculum. $50. Benefits Wadsworth Future Fund. eventbrite.com. Golf Outing for Sickle Cell Research 1:30 p.m., Glenview Golf Course, 10965 Springfield Pike, Glendale. $75 per golfer, $300 per foursome. Benefits Sickle Cell Anemia research at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. eventbrite.com.

MONDAY, SEPT. 23 Talbert House Annual Luncheon Hyatt Regency Cincinnati, 151 W. 5th St., Downtown. Reservations: 513751-7747 ext 1095. Benefits Talbert House.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 24 Hoxworth Blood Center Golf Outing 10 a.m., Losantiville Country Club, 3097 Losantiville Ave., Pleasant Ridge. $225 per golfer. Benefits Hoxworth Blood Center’s Research & Regenerative Medicine Program. eventbrite.com.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 26 Diamonds & Diabetes 6 p.m., Richter & Phillips Jewelers, 601 Main St., Downtown. Benefits Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund Southwest Ohio. eventbrite.com. HopeFest 2019 5:30 p.m., Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, 3400 Vine St., Avondale. Benefits Boys Hope

Slice Night beneﬁ ting UC’s Cancer Institute occurs Thursday night. LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAL

Girls Hope eventbrite.com. Slice Night 5-9 p.m., Yeatman’s Cove, 705 E. Pete Rose Way, Downtown. $20, $15 advance. $5 ages 10-under. Benefits cancer research at the University of Cincinnati Cancer Institute. Sunrise with SOTENI Breakfast 7:30 a.m., Phoenix, The, 812 Race St., Downtown. Free. Benefits SOTENI. eventbrite.com.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 27 Night of Courage 6:30-9:30 p.m., The Phoenix, 812 Race St., Downtown. $75 VIP, $40. Benefits Dragonfly Foundation. cincinnatiusa.com/ events/night-courage. Silent Disco for the Cure 6:30 p.m., The Lofts at Shillito Place, 151 W. 7th St., Downtown. $20. Benefits Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. tinyurl.com/DTSilentDisco2019. The Heroes’ Fund Fun’d’ Raiser: Salute A Hero 5:30-8:30 p.m., Roosevelt Room, 7500 Bales St., Liberty Township. Benefits The Heroes’ Fund. caringlikeangelsandheroes.com.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 28 Ride for a Wish Charity Motorcycle Ride 11 a.m., Quaker Steak and Lube, 590 Chamber Drive, Milford. Benefits Make a Wish Foundation. eventbrite.com. NautiCrawl 3-11 p.m., Graydon on Main, 1421 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. $30. Benefits Lighthouse Youth Services. eventbrite.com. Adult Prom: 80’s Edition 7 p.m., Oxford Community Arts Center, 131 E High St., Oxford. Benefits McGuffey Montessori. eventbrite.com. Anderson Township Historical Society Country Store 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Sunday, Miller-Leuser Log House, 6550 Clough Pike, Anderson Township. Free. Benefits Miller-Leuser Log House. Sips in Sunflowers 5-8 p.m., Burwinkel Farms, 4359 Hamilton Cleves Road, Ross. Benefits Epidermolysis Bullosa Hope Foundation. Butler/Warren County HeartWalk 10 a.m.-noon, Atrium Medical Center, 1 Medical Center Drive, Franklin. Benefits American Heart Association. heart.org/butlerwarrencounty.

Cincinnati NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner 6:30 p.m., Duke Energy Convention Center, 525 Elm St., Downtown. Benefits Cincinnati NAACP. eventbrite.com. One Million Steps for the One Million Faces 9 a.m., Pine Hill Lakes Park, 211 Kings Mills Road, Mason. $10. Benefits Sustainable Med. eventbrite.com. Pulling for Hope: Sporting Clay Classic 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Sycamore Pheasant Club, 6254 Lower Lewis Road, Loveland. Benefits Cincinnati Therapeutic Riding and Horsemanship. ctrhequinetherapy.org/ pulling-for-hope. St. Jude Walk/Run Smale Riverfront Park, Downtown. Benefits St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. cincinnatievents.com.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 29 2019 Sophies Angel Run 1-4 p.m., Saint Jude Catholic Church, 5924 Bridgetown Road, Green Township. Benefits Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the Sophie Meinhardt Memorial Scholarship Fund. Benefit Golf Outing for Bladder Exstrophy 12:30 p.m., TopGolf, 9568 Water Front Drive, West Chester. $125 per golfer, $65 non-golfer. Benefits Association for the Bladder Exstrophy Community. eventbrite.com. Children’s inCHAARG noon, Ault Park, 5090 Observatory Ave., Mount Lookout. Benefits Cincinnati Children’s Oncology patients and families. eventbrite.com. JRJ Memorial Golf Outing 1:30 p.m., Glenview Golf Course, 10965 Springfield Pike, Glendale. $80. Honors memory of Joe Molter, Joe Bertram, and Ryan Jones. eventbrite.com. Guided Walking Tour of Historic Mount Adams 1-3 p.m., Mount Adams Bar and Grill, 938 Hatch St., Mount Adams. $10. Benefits Mount Adams Civic Association.

Biden, Warren attack Trump on Ukraine call ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON – Former Vice President Joe Biden on Friday decried reports that President Donald Trump urged the president of Ukraine to look into his son’s business dealings there. Biden said that if the reports are true, “Then there is truly no bottom to President Trump’s willingness to abuse his power and abase our country.” The 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful said Trump should release the transcript of a July phone conversation with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy “so that the American people can judge for themselves.” Biden released the statement after the media reported Trump had urged Zelenskiy to probe the activities of Biden’s son Hunter, who worked for a

Ukrainian gas company. The Democratic front-runner’s campaign later sent out a fundraising letter urging potential donors, “Don’t let the President get away with this gross abuse of power.” Trump said there was nothing inappropriate in his contacts with foreign leaders. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has resisted calls for impeachment from many members of her caucus, arguing such a step would be divisive and could backﬁ re against the party in 2020. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said that posture makes Congress complicit in Trump’s outreach to Ukraine. “A president is sitting in the Oval Oﬃ ce, right now, who continues to commit crimes,” Warren tweeted. “He

continues because he knows his Justice Department won’t act and believes Congress won’t either. Today’s news conﬁ rmed he thinks he’s above the law. If we do nothing, he’ll be right.” Julián Castro, the former housing secretary, said Trump “needs to be impeached. “I love these House Democrats – my brother is one of them,” he added. “But it’s time for them to do something. It’s time for them to act.” Castro’s brother Joaquin represents Texas in the House. New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker didn’t call for impeachment but said the allegations were “sobering and serious stuﬀ .” “I want to see this investigated,” he said. “What we know already, if it is true, constitutes at the very least serious misconduct.”

Joe Biden is slamming President Donald Trump over reports he urged Ukraine’s president to look into his son’s business dealings. CHARLIE NEIBERGALL/AP

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Was Afghanistan war worth it? Veterans question value of American involvement Marco della Cava USA TODAY

Isiah James was stationed in Afghanistan nearly a decade ago. But something the village elders would whisper haunts him to this day. “They’d look at us and say, ‘You may have the watches, but we have the time,’ ” says James, 32, a onetime Army infantryman. After 18 years of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, that waiting game continues, leaving some veterans questioning whether the confl ict – and the risks they took for their countrymen – were worth it. President Donald Trump, who has complained about wasted “blood and treasure” in Afghanistan and has vowed to pull all U.S. troops, now seems less sure of a full withdrawal. “Afghanistan is an unwinnable war, an empire killer,” says James, a Democrat who is running for a U.S. House seat in New York. “Ask Alexander the Great, ask the Russians. America is no diff erent.” The Trump administration appeared poised to wrap up a confl ict that began as a Special Operations campaign shortly after 9/11 and peaked a decade ago with a massive presence of 100,000 troops. It has cost the U.S. in excess of $2 trillion. Last October, U.S. diplomats opened up peace talks with Taliban representatives in Oman. But on Sept. 9, in response to a Taliban attack that killed a U.S. soldier and 11 others, Trump called that dialog “dead.” The violence has since escalated. Roughly 14,000 U.S. troops remain in Afghanistan. Some 2,400 U.S. soldiers have died in the war. “In scholarship circles, there are roughly two camps on this war: one crowd that says ‘This never would have worked, and we should have seen that,’ and the other that says ‘It could have, but we’ve done it all badly,’ ” says Aaron O’Connell, an associate professor of history at the University of Texas, Austin, who is a colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve and was special assistant to Gen. David Petraeus in Afghanistan. O’Connell says some of the mistakes made include the withdrawal of troops and aid when the U.S. decided to invade Iraq in 2003, which led then-President Hamid Karzai to “strike corrupt bargains with strongmen that delegitimized his government.” But perhaps the biggest problem was simply establishing a presence as “military occupiers” that fundamentally undermined nation-building eff orts, he says. Seth Jones, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., says launching the war was likely an error from the beginning. “Sticking kids over there without the right training for the job at hand wasn’t right,” says Jones, director of

U.S. soldiers deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan, pray before a Thanksgiving meal in 2012. Some still are conflicted about whether the mission has succeeded. AP

Army’s Chosen Company, which repelled a storied 2008 Taliban attack in the Battle of Wanat. “I’m glad we got in and I’m proud of what we did. But I can also understand that after almost two decades of open conﬂ ict, it’s a lot to ask of our military and the American people.”

Poll says war a mistake

Isiah James is proud of his service but does not support an endless war in Afghanistan. He says he is running for a congressional seat in New York to try and create policy changes. PROVIDED BY ISIAH JAMES

the center’s Transnational Threats Project and author of “In the Graveyard of Empires: America’s War in Afghanistan.” “It was a mistake to think we could use conventional forces for this mission.” For those who risked their lives while tasked with improving the quality of life in Afghanistan, questions about wrapping up the war have become more intense as the Trump administration has debated oﬃ cially ending the conﬂ ict. “It’d be great if Afghanistan were now like Switzerland, a beautiful, mountainous place that’s free and peaceful with no Taliban, but it’s not,” says Erik Haass, 43, a management consultant from Chicago and veteran of two Afghan tours as part of the

A Pew Research Center poll conducted this past spring suggests that the public and U.S. veterans agree things have not been handled well. It found that 58% of veterans and 59% of the public think that when considering cost versus benefi ts, the war has been “not worth fi ghting.” For some veterans, the death of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden should have spelled the end of operations in Afghanistan. When President George W. Bush initiated Operation Enduring Freedom on Oct. 7, 2001, the stated aim was killing bin Laden. On May 2, 2011, that mission fi nally was accomplished in a nighttime raid on bid Laden’s redoubt in neighboring Pakistan. Kyle Bibby, 33, of Jersey City, New Jersey, was a Marine stationed in Afghanistan on the day bin Laden died. “Right after that, my fi rst thought was, what the (expletive) are we still doing here?” says Bibby, now a lead organizer with Common Defense, a New York-based nonprofi t whose mission is to draw veterans to progressive causes. “When we didn’t leave, it seemed like we were suddenly OK with an endless war.” Ian Eads, 37, another Chosen Company veteran who did two tours in Afghanistan a decade ago, says he would “never trade the experience for anything and I’d never want to do it

again.” Eads, now a police offi cer in Newport, Kentucky, saw his service as a job, one that sometimes meant killing people and other times meant befriending them. “I remember one Afghan that had a little shop at our base,” he says. “I’d trust him with my kids.” But when he returned home, his survivor’s guilt sometimes had him contemplating suicide, he says. He has battled valiantly to fi nd purpose and meaning. “So many people were lost, it was so big a price to pay,” he says quietly. For many vets, another frustration stems from wondering whether they’re the only ones thinking about Afghanistan. Unlike the Vietnam War — which ended in 1975 after 20 years and claimed 57,000 American servicemen — the Afghanistan War is being fought with a volunteer force. “Because we don’t have a draft, the average American person isn’t impacted by these confl icts, but we need to look at how something like this 18year war impacts families who are involved,” says Brooklynne Mosley, 35, a Democratic political operative from Lawrence, Kansas. She fl ew 190 combat sorties mostly over Afghanistan, helping refuel Air Force jets from tankers. “The people in Afghanistan don’t know why we’re there, and most Americans don’t know why we’re there,” says Mosley, whose little brother was 9 months old during 9/11 and now is entering college. “We’re going to have a hard time recruiting for more forever wars. We need to get out of there. We should be focusing our resources here on America and our crumbling infrastructure.”

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Iran’s Guard declares readiness to do battle A member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard points out pieces of an American drone shot down by the Guard in the Strait of Hormuz in June.

Amir Vahdat

ASSOCIATED PRESS

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard is ready for combat and “any scenario,” its chief commander said Saturday, as the U.S. alleges that Iran was behind an attack on major oil sites in Saudi Arabia that shook global energy markets. Iran has denied involvement in the Sept. 14 attack that was claimed by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who is in New York for the U.N. meetings, has warned that any retaliatory strike on Iran by the U.S. or Saudi Arabia will result in “an all-out war.” On Saturday, Gen. Hossein Salami, at a ceremony displaying pieces of an American drone Iran shot down in June, said his forces have carried out “war exercises and are ready for any scenario.” He added: “If anyone crosses our borders, we will hit them.” Zarif claimed in a tweet that Saudi Arabia does not believe its own allegations that Iran was responsible for the attack on Saudi oil sites. “It is clear that even the Saudis themselves don’t believe the ﬁ ction of Iranian involvement,” Zarif said, pointing to what he described as a Saudi retaliatory attack on Houthi forces in southwestern Yemen. Saudi Arabia has been at war with the Houthi rebels since March 2015.

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The U.N., Gulf Arab nations and the U.S. accuse Iran of supplying arms to the Houthis, something Tehran denies. The Houthis announced Friday they are halting all drone and ballistic missile attacks on Saudi Arabia – a move welcomed Saturday by Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griﬃ ths. If

implemented in good faith, he said, a halt to hostile military acts against the Saudis “could send a powerful message of the will to end the war.” Analysts say the missiles used in the Sept. 14 assault wouldn’t have enough range to reach the oil sites in eastern Saudi Arabia from impoverished Yemen. The missiles and drones

used resembled Iranian-made weapons, although analysts say more study is needed to deﬁ nitively link them to Iran. On Friday the Pentagon said the U.S. will send additional troops and military equipment to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to boost security.

Charge against mechanic shows threat to planes David Koenig

ASSOCIATED PRESS

The arrest of an airline mechanic suspected of being sympathetic with terrorists and charged with sabotaging a jetliner has renewed fear about the “insider threat” to aviation security. Despite security upgrades since the hijacking terror attacks of 2001, breaches that include a gun-running operation at the nation’s biggest airport illustrate the possibility that a well-placed airline or airport employee could bring down a plane. “Should people be worried? Hell, yeah,” said Doron Pely, a former aviation security consultant in Israel. “This doesn’t require a suicide bomber. It requires access to an airframe, an aircraft and motivation.” Several experts interviewed said it would be diﬃ cult if not impossible to stop every determined criminal or terrorist. They said steps that might beef up defenses against an insider attack – such as requiring aviation workers to go through security checkpoints as passengers do – could add costs and slow down work that goes on at airports. While there have been several cases in recent years of insiders using their special access to board planes without going through security – in one case, even steal a plane – they

Despite security upgrades since 9/11, recent breaches illustrate how an airline or airport employee could bring down a plane. TERESA CRAWFORD/AP FILE

haven’t harmed passengers, and there has been no clamoring for tougher security. Under federal law, people applying to work in secure areas of an airport must pass a three-part vetting process run by the Transportation Security Administration: a criminal-records check, a “security threat assessment” that includes checking their names against a terrorism watch list, and proof that they are eligible to work in

the U.S. Abdul Alani, who was born in Iraq and became a U.S. citizen in 1992, passed that test and got a job repairing planes for American Airlines. Alaska Airlines ﬁ red him in 2008 for shoddy work – something that American apparently didn’t know – but there was no criminal history, no other outward signs of problems. On Sept. 5, Alani was arrested in Miami and charged with trying to dis-

able or damage an aircraft. According to an air marshal’s affi davit, Alani admitted that in July he used his access to the back side of the Miami airport terminal to drive up to a Boeing 737, open a compartment below the cockpit and glue a piece of foam inside navigation equipment in such a way that pilots wouldn’t be able to tell how fast or high they were fl ying. The pilots aborted the takeoff . Investigators have found that TSA reviews also fall short. In 2015, the inspector general of the Homeland Security Department, TSA’s parent, found that TSA failed to identify 73 aviation workers with security badges who should have triggered terrorismrelated red fl ags. The reason: TSA wasn’t authorized to get all terror-related information from other federal agencies. After an outcry, TSA got more access. The watchdog offi ce found that TSA’s checking of applicants’ crime history and legal status to work in the U.S. was worse. “Thousands of records” were unreliable because they were missing Social Security numbers or contained merely an initial instead of a fi rst name. TSA did not check records to see if aviation employees committed crimes after getting their badges – it counted on the workers reporting that themselves, the inspector general said.

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Obituaries Name Age Bailey, Judy Marie 52 *Barnaclo, Carey Michele 31 *Battershell, Mary Virginia 90 *Bell, James Ralph 77 *Binzer, Alfred 89 Boyd, Rontony 40 Brewster, Joyce 68 *Calme, Edward Emil 83 Carrico, Ronald “Ron” L. 74 Carter, Robert Neal 96 Coulter, Mickey A. 67 Davis, Donna L. 77 *Davis-Collins, Virginia Lehman Denniston, Paul 75 *Fister, Mary 91 *Godfrey, David H. Goins, Gregory Lee 62 *Green, Rita Darlene 58 *Guethlein, Gay H 86 *Gusweiler, Edwin Thomas 94 Harrington, Jr., Dante’ 17 *Harrison, Robert E. 87 *Hayes , Judy 78 *Heideman, Psy. D., John Thomas87 Herbert, Walter T. 72 *Higgs, Mary Esther 91 Irick, Todd Carlton 84 *Johnson, Robert 93 Jones, Rodger J. 65 *Kock, Lee Charles 89

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Town, State Death Date Arrangements Forest Park 15-Sep Preston Charles Funeral Home Cincinnati 10-Sep Gilligan ~ Woodburn Bellevue 20-Sep Dobbling, Muehlenkamp-Erschell Cincinnati 15-Sep TP White and Sons Funeral Home Colerain Twp. 19-Sep Frederick Cincinnati 14-Sep Walker Funeral Home Lincoln Heights 17-Sep Preston Charles Funeral Home Tyler 18-Sep Stewart Family Funeral Home Bellevue, KY 20-Sep Connley Brothers Funeral Home - Latonia, KY Interdependence 19-Sep Chambers and Grubbs Independence Hamilton 20-Sep Webster Funeral Home, Fairfield Milford 18-Sep Evans Funeral Home - Milford Taylor Mill 18-Sep Floral Hills Funeral Home Mt. Orab 15-Sep Cahall Funeral Home-Georgetown Cincinnati 31-Aug Don Catchen and Son Funeral Home Elsmere Blue Ash 16-Sep Strawser Funeral Home Milford 10-Sep Advantage Cremation Care Crittenden 11-Sep Serenity Funeral Care Western Hills 19-Sep Rebold Cincinnati 16-Sep Gilligan - Kenwood Seven Hills 13-Sep Preston Charles Funeral Home Green Township 17-Sep Meyer Funeral Home & Crematory Cincinnati 11-Sep Newcomer - West Side Cincinnati 19-Sep Newcomer Cremations, Funerals & Receptions Cincinnati 19-Sep Newcomer-West Side 13-Sep TP White and Sons Funeral Home Union 18-Sep Chambers & Grubbs, Florence Cincinnati 30-Aug Spring Grove Funeral Homes Elden Good Hamilton 20-Sep Webster Funeral Home, Fairfield West Chester 18-Sep Mueller Funeral Home

Name Age *McMillen, Audrey S. 90 *Mercer, Dorothy J. 91 *Morgan , Martin A. 81 *Nead, William E. 93 Padgett, Gladys 88 *Pape Jr., Billy G. 73 Patterson, Jr., Roosevelt 84 Phillips, Franklin D. 82 Pitts Sr., Douglas Norman 71 Pollard, MaeBelle (Polley) Verax 91 *Reckner, Helen Mary 98 *Roose, Joyce “Joy” 75 *Schneider, Joseph A. 71 *Sears, Stephen O. “Steve” 61 Shannon, Robert “Bob” 79 *Smith, Anna Marie 91 *Sontag, Diane L. 57 Steele Jr, Joseph 63 *Swoboda, Marilyn G. 81 *Thomas, Shirley 88 *Torbeck, Richard L. 97 *Tudor, Clara 84 Turner, Miriam Rose 70 Varner, Tammy 50 *Warfel, Eldon Raymond 76 Wedmore, Edith Lenora 73 *Wessel, Jean 91 *Whitley, Teresa “Terri” Lee (Leonhard)68 Whitt, Robert Dale 74 *Wilson, Joseph B. 70

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Town, State Death Date Arrangements Greenhills 13-Sep Vitt, Stermer & Anderson Cincinnati 17-Sep Vitt, Stermer & Anderson Hamilton 19-Sep Zettler Funeral Home Delhi 17-Sep Vitt, Stermer & Anderson Cincinnati 17-Sep Preston Charles Funeral Home Loveland 19-Sep Rose Hill Funeral Home Hamilton 11-Sep Preston Charles Funeral Home Cincinnati 18-Sep Walker Funeral Home Cincinnati 13-Sep Walker Funeral Home Stout,OH 19-Sep Wilson Home for Funerals Union 16-Sep Kindred Funeral Home Cincinnati 17-Sep Spring Grove Funeral Homes St. Bernard 19-Sep Hodapp - Carthage 20-Sep T P White & Sons Funeral Home Union Township 17-Sep Tufts Schildmeyer - Loveland Erlanger 17-Sep Serenity Funeral Care Harrison 20-Sep Neidhard-Minges Sardinia 18-Sep Meeker Funeral Home Colerain Township 19-Sep Webster Funeral Home Villa Hills 18-Sep Linnemann Funeral Home Erlanger Cincinnati 18-Sep Hodapp Funeral Home - College Hill Cincinnati 26-Aug Catchen Family Funeral Home, Cincinnati Loveland 12-Sep Tufts Schildmeyer - Loveland Colerain Township 19-Sep Newcomer Northwest Cincinnati 16-Sep Spring Grove Funeral Homes Bethel 18-Sep Advantage Cremation Care Cincinnati 18-Sep Dalbert, Woodruff & Isenogle Funeral Home Miamisburg 16-Sep Newcomer Centerville Chapel Waynesville 20-Sep Stubbs-Conner Funeral Home, Waynesvil e, OH West Chester 20-Sep Weigel Funeral Home

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Carey Michele Barnaclo CINCINNATI - Carey Michele Barnaclo, 31 years of age, passed away

suddenly September 10, 2019 in Cincinnati, OH. Although Carey often struggled throughout her short life, her wit and humor would light up a room. She will be dearly missed by all. She is survived by her beloved family: parents Laura Ryan and David Barnaclo, brothers Ross and John Barnaclo, grandparents Mary Ann Ryan, Harry and Reita Barnaclo, aunts and uncles Bill (Janet) Ryan, Patty (Wilhelm) Genn, Maria (David) Myron, Marty (Melissa) Ryan, Peggy (Mike) Akey, Annette Smith (Mike Hough), Doug (Becky) Barnaclo, and numerous cousins, other relatives, and friends. She was preceded in death by her grandfather, William R. Ryan. A private funeral service was held September 16, 2019 at St. Gertrude Church in Madeira. Internment was at Gate of Heaven Catholic Cemetery in Montgomery, OH. Memorials may be made to The Lindner Center for Hope, 1N5, One Mind or a charity of one’s choice. Condolences may be expressed at: GilliganFuneralHomes.com

Audrey S. McMillen GREENHILLS - (nee Seifert) beloved wife, for over 66 years, of William W.“Bill” McMillen, loving mother of William D. “Bill” (Teresa) McMillen and Sharon “Sherry” McMillen, cherished grandmother of Jennifer (Kurt) Gaertner, Suzanne (Thor) Waller and Christine McMillen, ecstatic and adoring great grandmother of Jameson Gaertner, sister of David (Shelia) Seifert, aunt to Robin Seifert LaPrete and Andrew Seifert. Audrey was an enthusiastic and much loved volunteer mentoring 1st and 2nd grade classes along with participating in the Ohio Reads program for elementary school students and assisting in the high school home economics sewing class. She also was active in delivering “meals on wheels” and was a wedding coordinator at her church. She passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family, Friday September 13, 2019 at age 90. Visitation Thursday, September 26, 6:30-8:30 PM at the Vitt, Stermer & Anderson Funeral Home 3425 Harrison Ave. (45211) and also Friday 12 PM until time of service at 1PM at Northminster Presbyterian Church 703 Compton Rd. (45231). Memorials may be made to Greenhills-Forest Park Kiwanis Foundation or Northminster Presbyterian Church. www.vittstermeranderson.com

James Ralph Bell CINCINNATI - James

Ralph Bell, age 77, passed away September 15, 2019. Beloved husband of Nell L ove t t - B e l l (nee Hinson). Son of the late Garnett H. and Stella (nee Lawless) Bell. Devoted father of Christa Wall Schmidt, Jason (Alison) Bell, Jordan (Stephanie) Bell and Angie (Drew Harris) Bell. Memorial Service at Mt. Washington Baptist Church, 2021 Sutton Ave. on Sat. Sept. 28, at 2 PM with a reception following the service. Memorials to Hospice of Cincinnati or Christ Hospital Heart Center. T P WHITE & SONS Funeral Home serving the family.

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Alfred Binzer COLERAIN TWP. - Alfred J. Binzer, beloved husband for 63 years of Rosemary (nee Herrmann) Binzer. Devoted father of Barb (John) Stehlin, Patty (Rick) Covey, Kathy (Sam) Guenther, David (Ann) Binzer, Carolyn (Ken) Peaslee and Michael (Lorinda) Binzer. Loving grandfather of 15 grandchildren and 9 great grandchildren. Dear brother of Raymond (Mary Carol) Binzer, Mary (late Charlie) Wenzel and Irene (late Bill) Heinzelman. Alfred passed away on Thursday, September 19, 2019 at the age of 89. Visitation at Frederick Funeral Home, 2553 Banning Rd. on Wednesday (Sept 25) from 9-10:30am, followed by Mass of Christian Burial at St. James Church (White Oak) at 11am. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Hospice of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 633597 Cincinnati, OH 45263-3597. Special condolences may be expressed at frederickfh.com

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Robert Johnson CINCINNATI - Robert Clarke Johnson, age 93, passed away August 30, 2019. Bob was born March 6, 1926 in Gary, Indiana to the late C. Elmer and Mabel (Anderson) Johnson. He graduated from Horace Mann High School in Gary in 1944, then served for two years in the US Navy as a sonar technician on the U.S.S. Nicholson in the Western Pacific during WWII. Bob graduated from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey in 1950 and married Lillian Anna Darwesh on August 20, 1950. Bob served as Minister of Music at First Presbyterian Church, Arkansas City, Kansas for three years prior to moving to Cincinnati where he served as Minister of Music at Knox Presbyterian church for 18 years. During this time, he received his Master’s of Music in Choral Conducting from CCM. Bob and Lillian moved to Kettering in 1972 where he served as Minister of Music at Fairmont Presbyterian Church. Making a career change in 1978 and relocating to Saint Louis, Bob became a district sales manager

Mary Fister CINCINNATI - Mary Jane Fister (1928-2019)

Mary Jane Osborn was born in Sandpoint, ID on July 11, 1928, the oldest of four siblings. She lived her early life across the West United States in mining and logging camps up to the Second World War. After the war, she moved with her mother and siblings to Pittsfield, MA, where she met Bertram Fister. They were married on August 11, 1953 and eventually settled in Cincinnati, OH. Mary was committed to her family and her faith; baptized and confirmed into the Catholic Faith. She was heavily involved in supporting her local Catholic Church parishes, where she was a tutor, a substitute teacher and volunteer. Mary loved her children, and she taught them to use their gifts and talents, supporting them in games, plays, and recitals. She was known for her beautiful gardens and her one of a kind embroidered gifts. Mary and Bert’s family includes their six children Mike (Teresa), Bill (Nancy), Teri (Joe), Ceil (Mike), Tom (Rhonda), Jim (Mary); 12 grandchildren, Allison (Don), Tom (Coral), Kasey (Aaron), Sara (Mason) John, Kate (Chris), Sam, Dan, James, Meg, Carly, and Erin and five great-grandchildren, Ruby, Tech, Mac, Georgia, and Blaise. Her passing has left an immense hole in our hearts, but her love is an eternal comfort for us and all she ever met. She was a loving, caring Wife, Mom and Gram and we are truly blessed to have had her in our lives. A celebration of Mary’s life will be held at St. Gabriel Church in Glendale, OH on Saturday, September 28 at 10:00. Memorials can be made to St. Elizabeth pastoral care department.

Edwin Thomas Gusweiler CINCINNATI - Edwin Thomas Gusweiler, age 94,

died peacefully in Howell Michigan with his five daughters by his side. Ed lived his life in Cincinnati, Ohio with wife of 63 years, Joan Kessen Gusweiler. He is survived by daughters, Jane Cooper (Steve), Joy Grembo (Stan), Jill Melton, Julie Slaughter (Howard) and Joanne Gusweiler (Richard Moseley), nine grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, brother, Earl Gusweiler and sister, Janet Reeder and numerous nieces and nephews. Ed was a joy and light to everyone he met, belting out Frank Sinatra day and night. As an avid athlete, Ed played baseball, golf and bowled most all his life. He spent his career days on the car lot at Gusweiler Pontiac and several other dealerships before retiring. His boyish sweetness will be missed by all. Funeral services will be held on Saturday September 28, 2019 at All Saints Church, 8939 Montgomery Rd. Viewing at 9am, followed by Mass at 10:30am. Condolences may be expressed at: GilliganFuneralHomes.com.

for Schulmerich Carillon and Handbells. Upon his retirement from Schulmerich in 1989 he and Lillian returned to Cincinnati to be closer to family and friends. Bob is survived by his beloved wife of 69 years, Lillian and four children, Marcy Johnson of Bellevue, KY, Claudia (Jack) Gruber of Cincinnati, David (Molly) Johnson of Charlotte, NC and Sara Skolnick of Cincinnati; seven grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren; his brother, Warren (Linda) Johnson of Salem, OR; and several loving nieces and nephews. In addition to his parents, Bob was predeceased by his brother, Richard Johnson and his wife Emma, and his sister Margaret Powell and her husband Robert. The Johnson family expresses gratitude and thanks to all the caregivers of Heartland Hospice. A celebration of life for Bob will take place September 27, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. at Knox Presbyterian Church at Michigan and Observatory Ave. Cin. OH 45208. A time to greet Bob’s family will be held immediately following the service in the church’s Social Hall. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be directed in Bob’s memory to Knox Presbyterian Church Youth Ministry. Spring Grove Funeral Homes Elden Good in charge of arrangements.

David H. Godfrey BLUE ASH - Died Monday, Sep-

tember 16, 2019. Visitation is tomorrow, Monday, 10:00 am., followed by funeral services at 11:00 am. at Strawser Funeral Home, Blue Ash. More info at www.strawserfuneralhome.com.

Gay H Guethlein WESTERN HILLS - Gay Havlin Guethlein, beloved wife of the late Albert H Guethlein, loving mother of Libby Guethlein, sister of the late Tom Havlin, sister–in-law of Mary Schneider, Jean Michaels and Edith Richardson, aunt of many nieces and nephews. Died, Thursday, September 19, 2019, age 86. Please join the family for the Funeral Mass, Tuesday, 10:30 AM, St Aloysius Gonzaga Church. Burial to follow in the church cemetery. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the charity of your choice. Arrangements entrusted to Rebold, Rosenacker & Sexton Funeral Home. Condolence may be shared and donations completed online at www.rebold.com

Robert E. Harrison GREEN TOWNSHIP - Beloved husband of the late Bobbie June Harrison (Nee Wilson). Loving father of Terri (Tim) McErlane, Robin Harrison and Bob (Sarah) Harrison. Devoted grandfather of Amy Seta, Matthew (Megan) Brown, Jim (Annie) Willson, Eric (Ellen) Harrison, Sara (Aaron) Carmack, Brian Harrison and great grandfather of many great grandchildren. Passed away on Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 87 years of age. Visitation at MEYER FUNERAL HOME, 5864 Bridgetown Rd., on FRIDAY from 10:00 AM until time of Catholic Service at 11:30 AM. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Hospice of Cincinnati, PO Box 633597, Cincinnati, OH 45263. www.bjmeyer.com

Judy Hayes CINCINNATI - Hayes, Judith Ann

age 78, of Cincinnati, Ohio passed away on Wednesday, September 11, 2019. She was born in Hamilton, Ohio on September 26, 1940 to LeRoy and Dorothy Thomas (nee Sunderhaus). She was preceded in death by her husband, Edward; son, Thomas (Sandy); parents, LeRoy and Dorothy; brothers, Robert (Nancy) and Donald (Gloria). Judith is survived by her sister, Nancy (Louis) and brothers, William (Judy), Daniel (Karen); dear friend, Dick ; and a host of other family members. A visitation will be held from 10:30 am to 11:00 am with Memorial Mass to immediately follow on Wednesday, October 2, 2019 at Saint Martin of Tours, 3720 St. Martin Place, Cincinnati, OH 45211.

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John Thomas Heideman, Psy. D. CINCINNATI - John

T h o m a s Heideman, Psy. D. was born July 27, 1932 and died Sept. 19, 2019 at the age of 87. He is survived by his ex-wife, Carol Heideman; daughters, Susanna Heideman and Anneliese Frazier; nephew, Hank Heideman and niece, Cathy Becker-Heideman. He was born in Dayton, Ohio then moved to Maryland for college. He taught at Sinclair College for a number of years and started out working for NCR. He received a Doctorate in Psychology and had his practice in Dayton, and then in Cincinnati. He attended both Unitarian Fellowships of Cincinnati and Dayton. John’s ashes will be scattered at David’s Cemetery in Kettering, Ohio by his family. To send a special message please visit www.NewcomerDayton.com.

Mary Esther Higgs - - Mary Esther Higgs, age 91 years, died Sept. 13, 2019. Daughter of the late Charles and Ruth Higgs, god-mother of Jacqueline Doll Carter (Phil), Jacqueline’s daughter and sister, Jennifer Carter and Julia Doll Sachs (Bob), also survived by many Higgs and Bogue cousins, especially Martha Ann Bogue, and many very dear and special friends at Mt. Washington Presbyterian Church, and organ, piano and yoga students who have been “family” throughout the years. Thank you all. Memorial Service at Mt. Washington Presbyterian Church, 6474 Beechmont Ave., on Thur. Sept. 26, at 4 PM. Memorials to the Mt. Washington Presbyterian Church Music Ministries or the Hunger Fund. T P WHITE & SONS Funeral Home serving the family.

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Lee Charles Kock

William E. Nead

Joseph A. Schneider

WEST CHESTER - 89, passed away peacefully Wednesday, September 18, 2019. Beloved husband of the late Margaret Marie (nee Delong) Kock; loving father of Karen L. Adams and Michael (Pamela) Kock; adoring grandfather of Clayton Adams, Lauren Kock, Cierra Scotton, Christopher Kock, and Dalton Scotton; great-grandfather of Evelyn and Idris Adams; brother-in-law of Grace Kock and Ann Kock; and brother of the late Bernard Kock and George ‘Bus’ Kock. Visitation will be held at Mueller Funeral Home, 6791 Tylersville Road, Mason, OH 45040 on Tuesday September 24, 2019 from 10:30 a.m. until time of Service at 12:00 noon. Please visit Muellerfunerals. com for complete obituary.

DELHI - Beloved husband of the late Betty Nead (nee Noren), visit www.vittstermeranderson.com for full obituary.

ST. BERNARD - SCHNEIDER, Joseph Aloysius, beloved father of Joseph A. Schneider Jr. Dear brother of Mary (Jack) Harnest, James (Patricia) Schneider and the late John Schneider. Son of the late Aloysius J. and Alberta Schneider. Also survived by nieces, nephews, and relatives. Passed away Thursday, September 19, 2019 at the age of 71. Visitation will be held at St. Clement Church, 4536 Vine St., St. Bernard, on Thursday, Sept. 26, from 10 AM until time of Mass of Christian Burial at 11 AM. Memorials may be directed to St. Clement Church. Condolences at HodappFuneralHome.com

Dorothy J. Mercer CINCINNATI - (nee

McClelland) b e l ove d wife of the late Charles Mercer, loving mother of Bonnie Hutchinson and Karin Kuhlmann, dear grandmother of 6 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, sister of the late Betty Wilson. Passed away Tuesday, September 17, 2019. Graveside service will be Tuesday, September 24th at 10:30AM at Crown Hill Memorial Park, 11825 Pippin Rd., Cincinnati, OH, 45231. In lieu of flowers: Donations would be made to JDRF through the Team Lily One Walk Team. Lily is Grandma Dot’s great-granddaughter. <https://www2.jdrf.org/site/ TR?fr_id=7962&pg=team&team_ id=294057&ref_px=11324776> www.vittstermeranderson.com

Joyce “Joy” Roose CINCINNATI - Joyce Roose, 75, of Cincinnati, OH passed away peacefully on September 17, 2019. Joy is survived by her children Thomas (Jennifer) Roose and Tanya (Doug) Cooper, grandchildren; Jacob Roose, Katie Cooper, Quinn Cooper and Makayla Roose; brother James (Myra) Albrecht, sister-inlaw Gloria Albrecht. Joy was preceded in death by her parents and brother Richard “Dick” Albrecht. Per Joy’s wishes, a private celebration of her life will be held in the near future. Memorial donations can be made in her name to TriState Honor Flight, address TriState Headquarters, 8627 Calumet Way, Cincinnati, OH 45249, or at https://www.honorflighttristate. org/donate Online condolences can be left at www.SpringGrove. org.

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Stephen O. “Steve” Sears - - Stephen O. “Steve” Sears loving husband of Robyn J. Sears (nee Haungs) married for 38 years, beloved father of Jason C. (Ashley) Sears, dear grandfather of Sebastian and Braxton, devoted brother of Jeff (Liz) Sears, Lynn (Mike) Norman, Terrie Sears, Harry (Debbie) Sears, and the late Brian (Tammy) Sears, son of the late Homer and Mary Ellen Sears, son-in-law of Patricia and the late Robert Haungs, also survived by many nieces and nephews. Sept. 20, 2019. Age 61 years. Residence Mt. Washington. Memorial Service at T P WHITE & SONS Funeral Home 2050 Beechmont Ave. Mt. Washington on Sun. Sept. 29, at 3:30 PM. Friends may visit on Sun. from 2-3:30 PM. Memorials to the Wounded Warrior Project.

Martin A. Morgan HAMILTON - Morgan, Martin A. age 81 of Hamilton passed away on Thursday, September 19, 2019, at Berkeley Square Retirement Community. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on June 22, 1938, the son of Martin and Marietta (Gannon) Morgan. On August 26, 1961, in St. Agnes Church he married Joan E. Leckinger. Martin was owner and operator of Martin Morgan Construction Company and later Morgan Concrete Products retiring in 2001. He was a member of Sacred Heart Church and volunteered for Meals on Wheels. Survivors include his wife, Joan; five children, Pamela (John) Hodge, Diane Abner, Martin (Tami) Morgan, Mary (Marshall) Merriss, and Anthony (Rhonda) Morgan; thirteen grandchildren, Andrew, Katherine, Alex and Michael Hodge, Zakari, Miranda, Joshua, Sara and Gabriel Abner, Nicholas, Noah, Taylor and Ryan Morgan. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Theresa Morgan and a son, Scott Morgan. Visitation will be from 6-8:00pm Wednesday, September 25, 2019, at Zettler Funeral Home, 2646 Pleasant Ave. Hamilton, Ohio. Prayers will be offered at 9:30 am Thursday, September 26, 2019, in the funeral home followed by Mass of Christian Burial at 10:00am Thursday in Sacred Heart Church, 400 Nilles Rd. Fairfield, Ohio, with Fr. Larry Tharp celebrant. Burial will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Fairfield Food Pantry or St. Vincent de Paul Society of Sacred Heart Church. Online condolences may be made at www.zettlerfuneralhome.com

Ohio

Diane L. Sontag

Clara Tudor

HARRISON - Sontag, Diane L.

CINCINNATI - Clara Dieckmann

(nee Martini) Passed away on September 20th at the age of 57. Visitation Thursday, September 26th from 4pm - 8pm at Neidhard-Minges Funeral Home, 10385 New Haven Rd Harrison, Ohio 45030. Funeral Mass on Friday, September 27th at 10:30am at St. John the Baptist Church, 10010 Carolina Trace Rd, Harrison, OH 45030. For a full obit visit www.neidhardminges.com

Tudor was born January 11, 1935 in Cincinnati, daughter of Irma Becky and Ferdinand H. Dieckmann and died August 26,2019 in Arizona. She was a native of Clifton and a 1953 graduate of Walnut Hills High School. In 1954, she married the late Col. Ronald Tudor. They had 5 children and lived thru out the world. She is survived by her 5 children who live in the western states; Richard Tudor, Susan Dallas, Elizabeth Wilson, Ken Tudor and Doug Tudor, also two granddaughters and her older sister, Emma Dieckmann Hartkemeier, Clifton. She was cremated and will be interned at Hillside Chapel - Catchen Family F.H., 525 M. L. K. Dr., Cincinnati, Ohio.

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- Marilyn G. Swoboda age 81 passed away Thursday September 19, 2019. She was born January 17, 1938 in Springdale, AR to the late Harold and Beth (nee Graham) Kendrick. On September 24, 1960 in Kansas City, KS she married Robert J. Swoboda. She is survived by her husband Robert Swoboda; children Michelle Swoboda, Mike (Cheryl) Swoboda, Melissa Wingham; grandchildren Kevin Swoboda, Andrew Wingam, Robbie Swoboda, Max Swoboda; and was also survived by brother Don (Cathy) Kendrick. Visitation at THE WEBSTER FUNERAL HOME 3080 Homeward Way at Rt 4 Fairfield Saturday September 28, 2019 from 10am until the time of the Memorial Service at 12NOON with Thomas Meyer officiating. www.websterfuneralhomes.com

Helen Mary Reckner UNION - Helen Mary Reckner, age 98 formerly of Union, passed away peacefully on September 16, 2019. Helen loved time with her family and was a proud military wife and traveled with her husband and five children throughout his service. Helen is survived by her children: Jo Ann (Frank) Luecke, Robert (Doris) Reckner, Judi (Alex) Kale, Michael (Kathy) Reckner, son-in-law: David Ault, 12 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, and 3 great-great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. She is preceded in death by her husband: Robert Reckner, grandson: Kristopher, daughter: Teri Ault, parents: William and Johanna Buerger, and siblings: Elizabeth Schmidt, Bernard Buerger, William Buerger. A Mass of Christian Burial will be said at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, September 24, 2019 at St. Christopher Catholic Church (435 E National Rd., Vandalia) with Fr. John Tonkin as celebrant. Interment will immediately follow at Medway Cemetery in Medway. The family will receive friends on Monday September 23, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Kindred Funeral Home (400 Union Blvd., Englewood). Memorial Contributions can be made to Helen’s care givers and last residence at C & G Cares Whispers. Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.KindredFuneralHome.com

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Teresa “Terri” Lee (Leonhard) Whitley

CINCINNATI - Jean Wes-

sel (nee Sieck). Beloved wife of the late Albert B. Wessel. Loving mother of Gail (Carl) Woolley, Stephanie (Richard) Patterson and the late James Wessel and Linda (Robert) Matre. Also survived by many grandchildren, great grandchildren and daughterin-law Karen Wessel. Wednesday September 18, 2019. Age 91 years. Visitation Wednesday September 25, 2019 at the Bayley Place Chapel from 12:30 PM to 1 PM, 990 Bayley Dr., 45233. Followed by a 1 PM Mass of Christian Burial. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Hospice Care of Middletown, 3909 Central Ave., Middletown, OH 45044. Dalbert, Woodruff & Isenogle Funeral Home serving the family. www.dwifuneralhome.com

MIAMISBURG - Whitley, Teresa “Terri” Lee (Leonhard), age 68, of Miamisburg, went home to be with the Lord on Monday, September 16, 2019. Terri was born November 13, 1950 in Green Bay, WI to the late Robert & Ruth Leonhard. Terri was a caring nurse and an active member within her church. She is survived by her loving husband of 15 years, Russ Whitley; sons, Sean Bush, Patrick Bush and Kevin Bush; siblings, Barb Cason, Patt & her husband Quent Hepola, Scott Leonhard, Tim & his wife Teri Leonhard and Marty & his wife Treena Leonhard. Arrangements entrusted to Newcomer Centerville Chapel.

Joseph B. Wilson WEST CHESTER - Age 70, of West Chester, passed away Friday, September 20, 2019. Visitation will be held Thursday, September 26, 2019 at 9:30 AM, followed by a Funeral Mass at 10:30 AM at Saint John, the Evangelist Church, 9080 Cincinnati-Dayton Road, West Chester, Ohio. see full obituary at www. weigelfuneralhome.com

Richard L. Torbeck CINCINNATI - Richard “Dick”, 97, died Wednesday, September 18th, 2019. Loving father to Carol (Bruce) Yeazell, Rich (Jan) Torbeck, Lynn (Spike) Makia, Beth (Bill) Schnell, Bill (Ellen) Torbeck, Sally (Jim) Rechel, Larry (Theresa) Torbeck and Steve (Lynne) Torbeck. Dear brother of Mary Lou Busam and father-in-law of Dennis Behler. Preceded in death by his daughter Suzanne Behler, grandson Michael C. Torbeck, brother Frank Torbeck and sisters Jane Schmidt and Betty Ann Fehring. Also survived by 29 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. Visitation is Friday, September 27th 5-8pm at Hodapp Funeral Home, 6041 Hamilton Ave., 45224. Mass of Christian Burial is Saturday, September 28 at 10:00am at Bellarmine Chapel (Xavier University campus). In lieu of flowers, gifts may be made out to Hospice of Cincinnati. Condolences may be expressed at www.hodappfuneralhome.com

Eldon Raymond Warfel CINCINNATI - Eldon Raymond Warfel (Ray) passed away on September 16, 2019, age 76 years. Ray was a devoted husband to Linda Hanners Warfel for 39 years, a caring son-in-law to Kazuko Hanners, and a thoughtful brother-in-law to Edward T. Hanners. Ray was a dedicated son to Benton and Lois Warfel, a loyal brother to Clark and Michael Warfel, and a cherished family member to many relatives. After an international financial career, he enjoyed his retirement in Missouri and Ohio. Ray’s friendly and humorous personality will be dearly missed by his family, friends, neighbors and professionals contacts. A private family visitation will be held on September 25, 2019 at the Spring Grove Funeral Home, 4521 Spring Grove Ave, Cincinnati, Ohio 45232. Following the visitation, a burial will be held Sept 25, 2019 at the Spring Grove Cemetery, a National Historic Landmark. Online condolences may be given at www.springgrove.org

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This radio station could be Cincinnati’s new WNKU Digital station Inhailer enjoys new digs in OTR

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Many people worry about running out of money in retirement. That’s understandable, since we don’t know how long we’ll live, what your future costs might be and what kind of returns we can expect on our savings. There are several ways, however, to boost the odds that your money will last as long as you need it. Among them:

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Inhailer Radio has been around for two years working to fi ll the void that WNKU left. Their most recent development was moving into a new space. It’s smaller than their old studio. But it’s defi nitely cooler. To get to their offi ce, you have to walk through Herzog Music store – through the old records, the shiny new guitars and stacks of music books. As you walk up the stairs, you can hear muffl ed riff s from whichever band is rehearsing in the old King Records studio just above. It truly is a music hub. Inside their offi ce, framed posters on the fl oor lean against the wall. They aren’t exactly settled yet, but that’s okay. A lot of their DJs work from home, anyway. They can do that, since everything is digital. Radio – like newspapers, magazines and other media – is changing. But the demand for music isn’t going anywhere. And neither is Inhailer’s passion to provide just that.

How to make money last in retirement

Reduce ‘must have’ expenses Lowering your fi xed expenses – shelter, food, transportation, insurance, utilities and minimum loan payments – can help you withdraw less from your savings. One powerful way to reduce expenses is to downsize to a smaller home if you can reduce or eliminate your mortgage payment and shrink other costs such as property taxes, utilities and insurance. Getting rid of a car could save you nearly $9,000 a year, which is the average cost of car ownership according to AAA. Eliminating debt before you retire is often a good way to reduce expenses, but consult a fee-only fi nancial planner before withdrawing retirement funds to pay off a mortgage.

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Inhailer Radio and music director Nils Illokken just moved into a new space above Herzog Music in Over-the-Rhine. PROVIDED/INHAILER

Inhailer music director and Friday daytime DJ Nils Illokken still gets into his car and turns the dial on occasion. “That’s how most people know radio stations,” he said. Inhailer is diﬀ erent. Listeners can tune in from their phones and laptops at www.inhailer.com, or stream live from an app available for iPhone and Android. Illokken insists that while Inhailer isn’t “on the air” in the traditional sense, they still operate with the same format as a traditional radio station. And both Illokken and Kaitlyn Peace, content director for Inhailer’s blog and Monday morning/Thursday

evening DJ, think running an onlineonly radio has its own perks. For starters, Inhailer DJs have much more freedom than corporate radio DJs do. At corporate stations, Illokken said that DJs are mostly personalities and are told what to play, as opposed to picking out tracks themselves. At Inhailer, DJs can upload music they want to share with listeners, or choose from a long list they’ve been growing on a cloud-based system. You’ll rarely hear the same song twice in a day. “There’s a person behind it, not an algorithm,” said Peace.

Getting you home in time for what matters.

For listeners, Illokken said the added pressure of ﬁ nding that perfect playlist doesn’t exist with Inhailer. “There can be some anxiety to it, like, I don’t know what I want to listen to – there’s so much to choose from,” said Illokken. “Do I want to listen to something new? Do I want to listen to an old album? And when it’s all sitting there in your phone ... With us, you’re able to have someone else curate that for you.” Another way Inhailer stands out from corporate stations is the education and context that the DJs can See INHAILER, Page 3D

Keep earning A study for the National Bureau of Economic Research found that delaying the start of retirement from age 62 to age 66 could raise someone’s annual, sustainable standard of living by 33%. Even if you can’t continue working full time, income from a part-time job or side business could help you withdraw less from your savings.

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No laughing matter for young Sheldon show Strictly Legal Jack Greiner Guest columnist

The Federal Communications Commission recently released a “Notice of Apparent Liability” to the CBS Television Network based on an April, 2018 episode of the comedy “Young Sheldon.” The episode featured a simulation of the Emergency Alert System. Under FCC rules, that is a prohibited act. I confess I was not aware of that rule, but lesson learned. According to the FCC, the EAS is “a national public warning system that requires broadcasters, cable television operators, wireless cable operators, wireline video service providers, satellite digital audio radio service providers, and direct broadcast satellite providers to supply communications capability to the President of the United States to address the American public during a national emergency.” In more practical terms, it’s that jarring signal you hear on TV and radio when there’s an announcement of severe weather. Section 47 11.45 of the Code of Fed-

eral Regulations says that “[n]o person may transmit or cause to transmit the EAS codes or Attention Signal, or a recording or simulation thereof, in any circumstance other than in an actual National, State or Local Area emergency or authorized test of the EAS.” The FCC notes there are several reasons for this regulation. Section 11.45 protects the integrity of the EAS by helping to avoid: (1) immediate confusion in the event of a public threat or emergency; (2) public alert fatigue over time; and (3) false triggering of the EAS. A critical piece of the regulation is the fact that it prohibits a simulation of the EAS. This provision was an important part of the CBS proceedings. “Young Sheldon” is a prequel to “The Big Bang Theory.” It follows the exploits of Sheldon Cooper growing up in a small Texas town. In an April 2018 episode, titled “When the Storm Comes to Sheldon,” there is a scene in Sheldon’s home depicting his sister watching a Bugs Bunny cartoon as a tornado alert comes across the screen. CBS apparently downloaded an EAS alert from YouTube and modiﬁ ed it so that it would be partially obscured by the Bugs Bunny dialogue.

In the FCC’s view, the facts equated to an admission of liability by CBS. The network presented an unauthorized simulation of the EAS signal. Case closed. CBS argued, however, that no reasonable viewer would have mistaken the modifi ed signal for the real thing. But the FCC was unmoved, noting that CBS got tangled up in its own argument. In defending its use of the simulated signal, CBS argued that it was a “dramatic portrayal” intended to realistically portray a tornado warning. As the FCC noted, “[i]t is illogical … for CBS to contend that its use of the EAS Tones was designed to ‘accurately portray[]’ an emergency ... while also maintaining that no reasonable person could be confused by this ‘portrayal.’” The FCC considered this argument an admission that CBS “appropriated the meaning of the EAS Tones for nonemergency dramatic purposes.” And it noted that “[t]he rule, however, prohibits such appropriation because non-emergency uses of the EAS Tones actually dilute their real meaning over time.” And the proposed punishment isn’t insignifi cant. In assessing a fi ne, the

FCC considered that CBS functions as a broadcast network and a licensee for affi liate stations it owns. In its role as a network, CBS broadcast the episode twice – once for its East Coast affi liates and once for its West Coast affi liates. Given the base amount of the fi ne was $8000, that translated to a total of $16,000. And in its role as a licensee, CBS owns 15 affi liate stations – that’s $120,000. The FCC didn’t stop there. Using its discretion to make an upward adjustment to the fi ne, the FCC noted that CBS has an additional 200 affi liated stations that it doesn’t own, but who nonetheless broadcast CBS programming. The coast to coast reach of the CBS signal, in the FCC’s view, increased the extent and gravity of the violation. Accordingly, the FCC doubled the fi ne to $272,000. CBS has 30 days to either pay up or fi le a written statement seeking reduction or cancellation of the proposed fi ne. No word yet on what it plans to do. So the storm may rage on. Jack Greiner is managing partner of Graydon law fi rm in Cincinnati. He represents Enquirer Media in First Amendment and media issues.

How to save for retirement without a 401(k) Simply Money Amy Wagner & Nathan Bachrach Guest columnists

Question: Molly in Cincinnati: I don’t have a 401(k) through work. How can I still save for retirement? A: According to the Stanford Center on Longevity, about half of all U.S. households don’t have access to a 401(k), like yourself. The good news? You do have other options. Consider saving in a traditional IRA and/or a Roth IRA. Like a 401(k), a traditional IRA will grow tax-deferred over time, meaning you get a tax break now but pay income taxes on withdrawals in retirement. A Roth IRA is the opposite: you make contributions with money you’ve already paid taxes on, then withdrawals on earnings come out tax free once you’re 59 1⁄ 2 and have held the account for longer than ﬁ ve years (contributions can come out anytime tax free). For 2019, if you’re younger than age 50, you can contribute up to $6,000 into a traditional IRA and/or Roth IRA (this is a combined limit). Here’s another idea: if you have a high-deductible healthcare plan, con-

sider saving in a Health Savings Account (HSA). This type of account offers triple tax benefi ts (pre-tax contributions, tax-free growth, and tax-free withdrawals on qualifi ed medical expenses). But the important part here is to not touch this money until retirement. Retirement healthcare costs continue to rise, so this HSA will provide you with tax-free money specifi cally earmarked for these expenses. And even better? Once you turn age 65, the penalty is dropped for withdrawals on non-qualifi ed expenses, meaning you only have to pay income tax. This essentially turns your HSA into a de facto 401(k). For 2019, someone who’s single can contribute up to $3,500; a family can contribute up to $7,000. You can also save in a taxable investment account, such as a mutual fund you buy through a brokerage fi rm or directly through the fund. There are no contribution limits, income limits, nor age restrictions. If you hold the assets within the account for longer than a year, withdrawals will be subject to long-term capital gains taxes – which have historically been lower than ordinary income tax rates. Here’s The Simply Money Point: We’re glad you’re not using your lack of a 401(k) as an excuse not to save for retirement. While you’re at a slight disadvantage compared to those with a 401(k), it’s not a lost cause. No matter

which route you take, make your contributions automatic. This is the easiest way to ensure consistent saving. Q. Corey from Edgewood: My mom and dad are in their mid-60s. Is it too late for them to buy a long-term care policy? A. First, the question is do your parents even need long-term care insurance? Some retirees, depending on their level of savings, may be able to ‘self-fund’ long-term care needs – most typically defi ned as nursing home stays – making the need for a policy moot. If your parents don’t believe they’ll be able to self-fund, the decision then comes down to whether or not the premium is aff ordable. Unfortunately, over the last decade or so, policies have become more expensive while the benefi ts covered in those polices have been reduced – in just the past year alone, long-term care coverage has climbed nine percent according to Kiplinger. If your parents can’t aff ord the premium, it’s probably not a fi nancially prudent move to make. Now, we get to the question of age. Generally speaking, premiums jump in price the older someone gets. The sweet spot for buying a long-term care policy is usually in the early-to-mid 50s. This doesn’t mean someone in their mid-60s can’t (or shouldn’t) buy a policy – but it’s important to know it will be more expensive.

The Simply Money Point is that this is a conversation that should be had with a fi duciary fi nancial advisor, someone who’s legally obligated to make recommendations based on their clients’ best interests. Every week, Allworth Financial’s Nathan Bachrach and Amy Wagner answer your questions in their Simply Money column. If you, a friend, or someone in your family has a money issue or problem, feel free to send those questions to yourmoney@enquirer.com. Responses are for informational purposes only and individuals should consider whether any general recommendation in these responses are suitable for their particular circumstances based on investment objectives, fi nancial situation and needs. To the extent that a reader has any questions regarding the applicability of any specific issue discussed above to his/her individual situation, he/she is encouraged to consult with the professional adviser of his/her choosing, including a tax adviser and/or attorney. Retirement planning services off ered through Allworth Financial, an SEC Registered Investment Advisor. Securities off ered through AW Securities, a Registered Broker/Dealer, member FINRA/SIPC. Call 513- 469-7500 or visit allworthfi nancial.com.

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Business Inhailer

The name “Inhailer” comes from the word “hail,” which Stetter said is deﬁ ned as “to cheer enthusiastically.” The phonetic spelling of the word, inhaler, refers to the medical device. Stetter said he chose this name because he knew a lot of people had anxiety about losing WNKU. “We want to be that medicine that people can use to catch their breath,” he said.

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provide with their sets. Their shows aren’t pre-packaged like iHeart or Kiss FM; since the DJs choose their own music, they also know about what they’re playing, and then share that information with listeners. “I can’t do this anywhere else in the city,” Illokken said.

Rebuilding Cincinnati’s music community

Following a pipe dream Peace enjoys the freedom for another reason: she’s a fi rst-timer, and Inhailer’s free form style takes the pressure off . “I was driving to work every day, listening to the radio, and I was like, ‘man, I could do this. I could be a DJ,’ ” she said. She didn’t know how to follow that pipe dream. She thought she had missed her calling. But when Peace found Inhailer through the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards in January, everything changed. Suddenly, Peace was in charge of her own destiny – and her own sets. “I’ve always worked for somebody, and I’ve always been somebody’s assistant, or whatever,” she said. “And just to have somebody have a little faith in me and to be a part of the creative process ...” Peace went on, her eyes bright with excitement and her hands bouncing around as she explained what it was like to run her fi rst show. She’s only been DJ-ing for about eight months now, but she said she really feels like she’s found her place. Peace isn’t the only one that had a pipe dream come true. Coran Stetter, founder of Inhailer, said the station itself was founded through Facebook messaging. Stetter had just started getting heavily involved in the music scene

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checks they bypass in the meantime. More importantly, though, bigger Social Security checks serve as a kind of longevity insurance. The longer you live, the greater the chances you’ll burn your savings and depend on Social Security for most if not all of your income. It’s particularly important for the higher earner in a couple to delay as long as possible to maximize the survivor beneﬁ t that one of them will get after the ﬁ rst spouse dies.

Consider buying guaranteed income Many retirement experts say it’s a

Inhailer will host its ﬁ rst beneﬁ t concert on Friday, Oct. 25, at Southgate House Revival. PROVIDED/INHAILER RADIO

that WNKU provided with his own band just about a year before the university cut the cord on the station. “The rug got pulled out from underneath us,” Stetter said. He started posting to Facebook asking for contributions to “save the station.” Instead, he found people reaching out oﬀ ering services to start

a new station; people who knew graphic design, or the business side, or who wanted to DJ. Stetter and program director Taylor Fox launched Inhailer in June 2017. Illokken found out about them on Christmas Day. Two years later, and now the station has about 15 DJs and streams content 24/7

good idea to have enough guaranteed income to cover your basic, must-have expenses. If those expenses exceed what you expect to get from Social Security and traditional pensions, consider buying additional guaranteed income by purchasing an immediate annuity. Unlike other types of annuities that can be complicated and expensive, an immediate annuity can provide a stream of income for life in exchange for a single lump-sum payment upfront.

more than 4% of their nest egg in the fi rst year of retirement, increasing the withdrawal by the infl ation rate in subsequent years. That means a retiree with $200,000 in retirement savings could withdraw $8,000 in the fi rst year. If infl ation is 3%, the retiree would add $240 (3% of $8,000) and withdraw $8,240 the second year, and so on. People who retire early or who want to be more conservative might start at 3% rather than 4%, or skip infl ation adjustments in years when markets are bad.

Choose a sustainable withdrawal rate Big withdrawals or bad markets at the start of your retirement can dramatically increase the risk you’ll run out of money. Financial planners typically recommend that people take no

Get good tax advice Get good tax advice: Your tax situation can become more complicated in retirement, especially if you were a good saver. You could be thrown into a higher tax bracket by required mini-

When WNKU left, so did Cincinnati on the map of some traveling artists. Stetter explained that when artists book concerts for tours, they need to make sure that their investment is worthwhile. When a city doesn’t have a true local station, it’s hard to tell if there will be an audience. This domino eff ect impacts medium-sized venues like the Woodward in Over-the-Rhine and Madison Theater in Covington. In their absence, Cincinnati would just see local bar-sized concerts or stadium tours coming to town. The mid-level artists would likely drive through Cincinnati from Columbus to Louisville, Stetter said. “At the end of the day, it’s really just a music community,” he said. The ecosystem must be balanced, and that is what Inhailer plans to do. Part of that plan is their fi rst benefi t concert, entitled INspired 2019, scheduled for Friday, Oct. 25 in Newport at Southgate House Revival. The concert will feature 20 local bands on three stages. The music will begin at 5 p.m. and general admission tickets are available online for $12. Local indie rock band Physco will headline the concert. A full lineup can be viewed on Inhailer’s website. Inhailer is hoping to grow its sustaining member list in the next month leading up to the concert. You can donate to Inhailer Radio at inhailer.com/donate.

mum distributions from retirement funds that typically must start at age 701⁄ 2. The higher income also can cause more of your Social Security to be taxable and raise your Medicare premiums. Sometimes it can make sense to start distributions earlier or to do Roth conversions to reduce future taxes.

Protect your health Many chronic health conditions are associated with higher medical costs in retirement, including diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, arthritis and heart disease, according to a study by Vanguard and Mercer Health and Beneﬁ ts. Some health risks are beyond our control, but regular screenings, proper medical care and a healthy lifestyle may help you reduce some of those costs.

4D ❚ SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2019 ❚ THE ENQUIRER

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Test scores not only predictor of students’ future potential Your Turn Michael J. Graham Guest columnist

Recently, Xavier University decided to make optional the inclusion of standardized test scores from the SAT and ACT in the student application process (for all but a handful of programs, usually where licensure requirements still stipulate them). In doing so, Xavier joins a growing list of now more than 1,000 colleges and universities which have decided to allow students to choose whether to submit test scores, including Wake Forest, George Washington, the University of Chicago, and about half of the 27 American Jesuit Colleges and Universities. To provide some context for the decision, I want to clarify that it was reached after much consideration of our Jesuit Catholic mission as a liberal arts university, our growing national footprint (60% of our undergraduates now come from beyond Ohio), and careful data analysis. We determined that standardized test scores are not the only predictor of a student’s potential to succeed and thrive at Xavier, because of increasing national evidence that such test scores can be socially, culturally, economically and racially biased. Like a growing number of schools, we prefer to focus on the totality of a student’s high school accomplishments – their GPA, the types of courses they are taking, the activities they are involved in, their job and volunteer service experiences in the community, etc. We want a picture of the “whole” student, which ties into our Jesuit mission of educating the “whole” person. We call it cura personalis – the care of the person – and it’s at the heart of what Jesuit schools do, here at Xavier and elsewhere. It seems to be working. For several years now, 98% of our graduates have been either employed, in graduate school or the military or in a full-time service or volunteer position within six months of graduation. Another data point: this past year, 92% of Xavier students who applied to medical school were accepted, against a nationally reported 41% acceptance rate into M.D. programs. (Law school acceptance rates are likewise robust.) Xavier’s goal, however, is not just

More colleges have decided to allow students to choose whether to submit test scores. NICK OZA/THE REPUBLIC

to prepare students for a job (which we do very well), but to prepare them for life, which means our graduates not only go on to fulﬁ lling careers but also to rewarding lives that involve contributing to the greater good through service to others. The students who choose Xavier are looking for this kind of university experience. They want the chance to learn, to serve and to achieve in a community of educators and learners who are told on Day One that we expect them to support one another toward the goal of graduation. We believe everyone who wants an education should have the same opportunity to be selected based on their high school achievements and community participation, and not be excluded because of standardized

test scores. Of course, anyone who wants to submit their scores to supplement their high school record may do so, and their scores will be considered. I suspect that most will continue to do so. But those who don’t will not be penalized. We believe our approach will attract some very bright applicants who might not otherwise have considered Xavier, but who are looking for the kind of exceptional, holistic educational experience we oﬀ er. That has been a clear message in the early feedback we’ve received. It will also allow us to deepen our commitment to educate a diverse, inclusive and academically talented student body, which is currently about 20% ﬁ rst-generation and 21%

students of color. We believe that diversity and inclusion of all kinds – economic, geographic, racial, ethnic, religious and much more – are essential to the learning process, and Xavier is poised to provide the education students need and want to become leaders who leave Xavier inspired to make the world a better place and have the skills to do so. Our world is constantly changing. And we will make sure that Xavier will be there for future generations as one of the top Midwestern Comprehensive Universities (as we have been for 25 years), and ever more focused on our Jesuit Catholic mission of forming men and women for and with others. The Rev. Michael J. Graham is president of Xavier University.

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Forum LETTERS TO THE EDITOR those kids who were denied access to those elite colleges, they may change their mind quickly. Felicity Huff man’s 14day prison sentence was a gift to her. Although she is a fi rst-time off ender, the 30-day recommended sentence by the prosecution was more than just, and the judge should not have split the diff erence. Hopefully, the 250 hours of community service will be diffi cult time, yet benefi cial to the community. I do applaud her for taking responsibility immediately and for those who have refused, I hope the punishment is much more severe. The wealthy are not entitled to better schools or to run through life playing by their own rules. The little guy deserves respect and fairness.

Felicity Huffman and her husband, William H. Macy, leave the federal courthouse in Boston following her Sept. 13 sentencing. CJ GUNTHER/EPA-EFE

Felicity Huﬀ man’s sentence a gift The college admission’s scandal may not be a serious matter to some, but to those kids who worked hard to qualify for admission to those elite schools, only to be turned down, while parents bought their child’s admission into

those schools, were hurt. The right college can make or break a career. For the probation department, in their letter to the judge asserting no one was harmed by greedy school personnel and those nefarious parents need to speak to

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Ohio AG should probe archdiocese The Vatican investigation into the Cincinnati Archdiocese leadership is long overdue, but not the only option that should be considered for this matter. The current issue at hand is the archdiocese’s handling of allegations of inappropriate and abusive behaviors. The archdiocese and church hierarchy in general have not been honest, transparent or accountable to its membership in the past, so it is hard to trust that they would be now. One cannot help but wonder if an investigation by the Ohio attorney general may not be a better and more pertinent process. Kathy Weyer, Loveland

US can’t solve climate change alone Pray tell me why our country should be doing more for climate change when we are about 4% of the Earth’s population? If we closed down all fossil fuel use and cut carbon emissions 100%, what good would it do? The other 96% aren’t doing anything to help! Robert Dollenmeyer, Milford

Bus tax would hurt retirees I agree that our bus system is a mess. Buses don’t go where needed and are usually “near empty” where they do go. And it is certainly not fair for the city to have to pay for the entire county. But our City Council is saying that if the earnings tax is repealed, it will be a wash. Do they not realize or care that retirees without income do not pay the earnings tax and that this sales tax levy will be an increased burden on us? When I pointed this out to one of our famous council members, his reply was insulting: “You can always get a job.” Maybe they just don’t care for retirees. Jim Bodmer, College Hill

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6D ❚ SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2019 ❚ THE ENQUIRER

The Liberal View

Striking workers remind us they saved GM E.J. Dionne Columnist

During the debate over whether the federal government should save the American auto industry in late 2008, a driver rammed into my old Saturn in a late-night accident while it was parked in front of my house. Fortunately, no one was hurt, but I needed a new car. I strongly supported the rescue effort, so I felt an obligation to look to a Detroit-based car company organized by the United Auto Workers union for a replacement. I got a Chevy Malibu – my kids called it “Dad’s Boo” – and remain happy that I did. In organizing what critics called the “bailout” of GM and Chrysler, President Barack Obama was defying popular sentiment. Yet what was in many ways the most radical step he took to revive an American economy in free fall turned out to be one of his most politically beneﬁ cial initiatives. The eﬀ ort was far closer to what could be called “socialism” than anything in Obama’s health care plan, although he was, in fact, trying to keep the auto companies under private

ownership. But socialism or not, the rescue was key to his success in 2012 in carrying Michigan and Ohio, states that would elude Hillary Clinton in 2016. And it worked – witness GM’s $35 billion in North American profi ts over the last three years. The taxpayers got most of their money back and, by certain measures, even turned a modest profi t off the government’s investment. Either way, a catastrophe was averted. It wasn’t just two big companies that were saved. So were suppliers whose collapse would have devastated the Midwest. My support for the bailout was rooted in practical economic concerns: Our economy was teetering and could not aff ord the damage an auto-sector implosion would infl ict. But my passion for it came from a concern for the lives of the workers involved and a lifelong respect for the UAW. Unions get knocked for being unconcerned about the health of the companies they organize. The UAW showed how untrue this is. It made sweeping concessions to management to persuade federal offi cials to undertake the investment of public money – and to keep the companies

alive. Among other gripes is the tiered wage system that Neal Boudette described well in The New York Times: “Workers hired before 2007 make about $31 an hour, and can retire with a lifelong pension. Those hired after them (now more than a third of the work force) start at about $17 an hour and can work their way up to about $29 an hour over eight years. They also have to rely on 401(k) retirement accounts instead of pensions. In addition, GM uses temporary workers (about 7 of the staff ) who earn about $15 an hour, and do not have vision or dental benefi ts.” The rank-and-fi le don’t like the idea of people doing the same labor at radically diff erent pay levels. And then there are the plant closures that have slashed 14,000 North American jobs, as well as the announcement that the Chevy Blazer would be built in Mexico. Symbolically and substantively, the closure earlier this year of the legendary GM plant in Lordstown, Ohio, that had produced Chevy Cruzes was an especially heavy blow – and it fl ew in the face of President Trump’s promise in a 2017 speech in nearby Youngstown that factory jobs are “all coming back. They’re all coming

back.” So confi dent was Trump that he told his supporters not to sell their homes. The bottom line is that the strikers are fi ghting not only for greater fairness and a larger share of the company’s success, but also for work itself. Too late to avert the strike, GM fi nally put an off er on the table to begin addressing some of these issues. But the rank-and-fi le are restive for more, and for good reason. Those of us who supported keeping GM alive a decade ago – and put our wallets where our mouths, pens and votes were – didn’t do so to make it easier for management to outsource jobs or hold down pay and benefi ts forever. Every Democratic candidate for president should be joining the UAW’s picket lines to drive that point home. The cliché is singularly appropriate in this case: The struggle for employment, pay and benefi ts in the auto industry is where the rubber meets the road in our too often very abstract discussion of the challenges facing American wage earners in an economy undergoing rapid transformation. The battle at GM is a fi ght that unions and workers cannot aff ord to lose. Follow E.J. Dionne on Twitter: @EJDionne.

More ‘Game of Thrones’ instead of ‘West Wing’ Eugene Robinson Columnist

WASHINGTON – I want to hear the Democratic presidential candidates explain, convincingly, how they’re going to beat Donald Trump. Then I want to hear how they propose to repair the devastating damage Trump has done to all three branches of government – and to our trust in our institutions. First, Trump has to be sent packing. I shudder to think of what four more years of this chaos and decay would do to the nation. Trump is so unpopular, and has so neglected making any attempt to broaden his base, that the agenda of the eventual Democratic nominee is clear: motivate loyal Democratic constituencies to turn out in large numbers; win back at least some of the Rust Belt voters who chose Barack Obama in 2008 and Trump in 2016; and invite independents and antiTrump Republicans along for the ride. None of these tasks are mutually exclusive, and none involve rocket science. With just a couple of exceptions, I can see any of the Democrats on

stage last Thursday getting the job done. But then would come the hard part. Perhaps the most straightforward and least complicated undertaking, since it would be entirely within the next president’s purview, is rebuilding the executive branch from the corrupted ruin Trump will leave behind. One of the most underreported stories about the Trump administration is its basic incompetence. Perhaps Trump’s biggest con of all was convincing his supporters that he was some sort of business wizard with a genius for management. In truth, the Trump Organization was a mom-and-pop family business that he repeatedly micromanaged to the brink of collapse. He is doing exactly the same with the government of the United States. The White House itself is less like “The West Wing” than like “Game of Thrones.” Courtiers vie for the favor of the Mad King, unable or unwilling to perform normal duties for fear of risking Trump’s ire. Usually, the White House is a place where information from outside sources is synthesized and digested so the president can make the best possible decisions.

Under Trump, the fl ow is reversed – his whims, however ill-informed or contradictory or just plain loopy, are tweeted out and must be made into policy. Agencies vital to our national security – including the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency – lumber along, month after month, without permanent leadership. “It’s easier to make moves when they’re acting,” Trump has said, but really the situation refl ects his own insecurity. By keeping his underlings weak and beholden only to him, he limits their power – and thus hamstrings the departments they nominally lead. So the fi rst job of the next president will be to restock the executive branch with the kind of competent, dedicated professionals who have served both Democratic and Republican administrations in the past. This will be a big endeavor, but it’s relatively straightforward. More diffi cult is fi guring out how to address the damage Trump has done to the legislative branch. With the help of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Trump has rendered Congress all but impotent. Even measures with upward of 90%

public support, such as universal background checks for gun purchases, cannot even get an up-or-down vote because Senate Republicans are so terrifi ed of Trump’s displeasure. Hardest of all will be fi xing what Trump has done to the judicial branch. Trump and McConnell have confi rmed more than 150 new federal judges, most of them far-right ideologues. Their impact on jurisprudence in the coming decades will be bad; their impact on public perception of the judiciary is already worse. We need to be able to believe that justice is blind, that our judges are fair and impartial – including those who serve on the ultimate tribunal, the Supreme Court. Trump’s brazen court-packing threatens to shatter that belief, and I don’t know if anything but probity and time can restore that faith. Benjamin Franklin famously said that the Constitutional Convention produced “a republic, if you can keep it.” Trump will leave behind a banana republic, and his successor is going to have to fi x it. Contact Eugene Robinson at eugenerobinson@washpost.com.

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The Conservative View

Hong Kong across from nasty regime George Will Columnist

HONG KONG – Lee Cheuk-yan, unlike most Americans, remembers and reveres Lane Kirkland, a hero of the fi rst Cold War. During 16 years as leader of the AFL-CIO, 1979-95, Kirkland gave crucial support, both material and moral, to Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement in Poland, where it was an early tremor in the political earthquake that ended European communism. Here, in this island city at the other end of the Eurasian land mass, a city that has become a fl ashpoint in Cold War 2.0, Lee is lending support to a fl uid, shapeshifting protest movement that has no Lech Walesa. This lack is a strength and a weakness. The movement has no leader with whom the local government, which is an appendage of Beijing and hence of the Chinese Communist Party, might negotiate. Fortunately, however, a movement without a head cannot be easily decapitated, which otherwise probably would be Beijing’s default position. This thought experiment became the premise of a 2018 novel (Chloe

Benjamin’s “The Immortalists”): If you knew when you were going to die, how would this change how you choose to live? Hong Kong’s young people, from whom come most of the demonstrations’ participants and energy, know that the clock is ticking for their city. It is 22 years into what was supposed to be a 50-year grace period. In 1997, Britain ended 156 years of responsibility for Hong Kong, transferring it to China. So, just eight years after the Tiananmen massacre, there began what was supposed to be half a century of Hong Kong’s exceptionalism preserved, after which the city might be gracefully melded with a mellowed mainland. Just 22 years later, this hope has been as refuted as the 1989 hope that the massacre would be followed by a less authoritarian, because more secure, Beijing regime. Lee was in a hotel overlooking Tiananmen Square when the tanks rolled in. He later organized Hong Kong’s memorial museum, which is overseen by the same organization that facilitates commemorations every June 4. As a human bridge between the ﬁ rst Cold War and the next one, he knows that this city today is not like East Berlin in 1953, or Budapest in 1956, or Prague in 1968. In those places, people who were in despotism’s ﬁ rm grip rebelled and

quickly learned how fi rm the grip was. Hong Kong is spectacularly vibrant and prosperous because it perennially – since 1970 – holds the top position in the Economic Freedom of the World rankings. When demonstrators here have waved colonial-era fl ags and shouted “Reclaim Hong Kong,” they were not nostalgic for colonial restoration. Rather, this was largely a cry for the status quo. Largely, until now. Now, however, less and less. As a young Hong Kong woman studying in Boston recently wrote in her college newspaper, “I am from a city owned by a country that I don’t belong to.” Residents of this city, especially young residents, are decreasingly likely to think of themselves as Chinese rather than as Hong Kongers. In 1997, 47% of residents were “proud to be a citizen of China.” Now only 38% are. Among those 18 to 29 years old, 55% have a negative opinion of the Beijing regime, which has sown discord and is reaping disaff ection. The 1992 United States-Hong Kong Policy Act commits America, as the State Department notes, to “promote Hong Kong’s prosperity, autonomy, and way of life.” Its “way of life” is a multifaceted condition that rests on freedom and universal suff rage. A re-

cent Hong Kong demonstration called for passage by the U.S. Congress of legislation that would impose sanctions on mainland Chinese or Hong Kong ofﬁ cials who abridge the city’s freedoms, and it would require annual review of the special economic privileges Hong Kong gets from America. This would make U.S. relations with Hong Kong more like those with Taiwan, which receives substantial U.S. military and other assistance to buttress its independence, even as U.S. policy adheres to the prudential ﬁ ction that Taiwan is something it will not soon, if ever, be – part of “one China.” But Hong Kong could become yet another casualty of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, which made many Americans comprehensively skeptical of U.S. attempts, in the words of President John Kennedy’s inaugural address, “to assure the survival and the success of liberty” around the world. Hong Kong, however, unlike Iraq, has a vibrant democratic culture and civil society. What is required of U.S. policy is not “nation building” but sustaining the reality of a polity that, without claiming or seeking nationhood, simply refuses to be absorbed into the domain of an increasingly nasty regime. Contact George Will at georgewill@washpost.com.

Smearing of Justice Brett Kavanaugh continues Marc A. Thiessen Columnist

WASHINGTON – A Columbia Journalism Review poll released this year found that half of all Americans have “hardly any confi dence at all” in the media, which beat out even Congress as the institution for which the public has the lowest confi dence. It’s not hard to see why. Last week, CNN reported that the CIA was forced to pull a highly placed source inside the Kremlin because of concerns that President Trump might burn him – when it turns out the decision to extract the source was made before Trump took offi ce because of leaks from senior Obama administration offi cials. Now, The New York Times has published an adapted excerpt from a new book by Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly in which they breathlessly describe a “previously unreported story” about how Max Stier, a college classmate of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, notifi ed senators and the FBI that he saw Kavanaugh expose himself to a girl at a Yale party and that “friends pushed his

penis into the hand of a female student.” One small problem: In the book, Pogrebin and Kelly write that the female student in question “refused to discuss the incident” and that “several of her friends said she does not recall it.” That calls the entire allegation into question. Yet the Times did not include this vital information in the excerpt it published. Pogrebin and Kelly conveniently blamed their editors. Why didn’t they insist it be included when they reviewed the story before publication? And how then do they explain the fact that they also failed to mention it in an interview with NPR? When asked by Terry Gross the specific question “Are there other women who have come forward?” (emphasis added), they repeat their uncorroborated accusation without mentioning that this “other woman” not only did not come forward but also does not recall the incident. The Times was later shamed into appending an editors’ note to the story saying “the book reports that the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident. That information has been added to the article.” Too little, too late. If prosecutors in a court

of law were to do what the Times did – fail to disclose evidence that goes toward negating a defendant’s guilt – they could have their case thrown out and face potential disbarment for prosecutorial misconduct. But in the court of public opinion, anything goes. That’s not all. In their article, the reporters innocuously describe Stier as someone “who runs a nonprofi t organization in Washington.” They fail to share with readers in the story the fact that Stier was a member of Bill Clinton’s legal team at the same time that Kavanaugh was working for independent counsel Kenneth Starr on the other side of the Monica Lewinsky investigation. That seems relevant information that could call his motives into question. Amazingly, the Times story leaves out the one truly newsworthy revelation in the book. During the Kavanaugh hearings, Leland Keyser – whom Christine Blasey Ford named as a witness to her alleged assault – never testifi ed, but her lawyer wrote the Senate Judiciary Committee that while she “has no recollection of the incident in question … she believes Dr. Ford’s account.” In their excellent book, “Justice on Trial,” Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino fi rst broke the news

that Keyser told friends she did not in fact believe Ford. But Pogrebin and Kelly got Keyser to speak on the record for the fi rst time. “It would be impossible for me to be the only girl at a get-together with three guys, have her leave, and then not fi gure out how she’s getting home” she told them, adding “I just really didn’t have confi dence in the story.” She said she was pressured by many who “wanted me to remember something diff erent” and threatened “behind the scenes that certain things could be spread about me if I didn’t comply.” For some reason, the Times did not fi nd this news fi t to print – perhaps because it strengthens the case that Kavanaugh was smeared. The only thing more shameful than the Times’s irresponsible reporting was news of all the Democratic presidential candidates who seized on the Times story to call for Kavanaugh’s impeachment. In light of Keyser’s comments, they should be apologizing to Kavanaugh instead. And if the media wants to understand why it has surpassed Congress as the least-trusted institution in the country, here is a textbook example. Follow Marc A. Thiessen on Twitter: @marcthiessen.

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A construction worker walks along a stretch of Vine Street that’s undergoing major redevelopment in Over-the-Rhine. New businesses have opened and incomes have increased in the past decade, but some former residents say they could no longer afford to live there. PHOTOS BY JEFF DEAN/THE ENQUIRER

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THE LONG, HARD ROAD PART 3

A view of the University of Cincinnati campus and surrounding neighborhoods that are undergoing constant change. PHIL DIDION, ALBERT CESARE/THE ENQUIRER

Our yearlong series putting faces on the faceless statistics Beryl Love Editor The Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

If you’ve been following The Long, Hard Road, The Enquirer’s yearlong eff ort to tell the story of fi nancial hardship in our region, you’ve already met 28 individuals or families whose struggles shed light on what it means to be poor in our towns and neighborhoods. In Part 1, we started our journey near Middletown and headed south on Route 4 through Cincinnati’s northern suburbs. Here, we encountered the so-called new poor, people who once lived comfortably but have yet to recover from the Great Recession. A machinist forced to drive a truck for less pay after his factory job was eliminated. An asthma suff erer who delays medical treatment for fear of missing work and losing his job. A family living under the ominous cloud of a mortgage they now can barely aff ord.

In Part 2, the road took us inside the I-275 loop, where a common thread stitched together the stories we found: When you are poor, everything costs more, in relative terms. We introduced you to a mother stretching her cash by searching for clothes for her children at the Goodwill Store in Woodlawn. We found refugees from Bhutan growing food for their families in a community garden established by St. Clare Convent in Springfi eld Township. In Part 3, the road passes through our urban core, where generational poverty shapes the 11 stories we share today. It’s a world where payday loans siphon away hard-earned dollars and minor criminal off enses – the likes of which people with fi nancial means can mitigate with a good lawyer – trap the working poor in low-paying jobs that don’t require background checks. The issue of poverty can be diffi cult to grasp. It’s usually framed with faceless statistics such as income levels and unemployment rates. Too often, news reports on income disparity fall

short of connecting with us on an emotional level. Our purpose with The Long, Hard Road is to, pardon the pun, take the road less traveled. Since January, more than 22 Enquirer journalists have been out on the road – an 80-mile stretch that cuts through dozens of communities in our region – searching for people who can give us a more intimate understanding of what poverty means in Southwest Ohio and Northern Kentucky. Their stories have been both gutwrenching and inspirational, oﬀ ering hope but leaving us with the grim reminder that despite our collective efforts, the gap between the haves and have-nots continues to widen. The stories from the Long, Hard Road deserve to be told. They are our stories. Thank you for taking this journey with us. lll The Long, Hard Road is the centerpiece of a project called Prosperity Disparity, a series of special reports that look at how ﬁ nancial hardship af-

fects our region. I’d like to thank the Kroger Co. for underwriting Prosperity Disparity and encourage you to learn about their eﬀ orts to reduce hunger across the nation through their Zero Hunger | Zero Waste initiative. I’d also like to invite you to a Prosperity Disparity public forum The Enquirer is holding in partnership with Xavier University on Oct. 23 that will look at new and innovative ways to help individuals break the grip of poverty in our community. Details can be found in today’s special print section and online at Cincinnati.com/ prosperitydisparity Beryl Love is the executive editor of The Enquirer. Email him with comments about Prosperity Disparity at blove@enquirer.com

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The series Part 1 (Middletown and northern suburbs): Dreams Detoured – For some, the Great Recession never ended. Part 2 (First suburbs and Mill Creek Valley): The Heavy Toll of Having Less – Barely Making it in America Part 3 (The region’s urban core): Why The Poor Stay Poor Part 4 (Suburban and rural Kentucky): Coming in December

The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge over the Ohio River is a little more than 1,000 feet long, but it sometimes feels to residents in Cincinnati and Covington that the two are worlds apart. The truth, though, is that each side has plenty in common with the other. And that includes the struggles of the poor. Cincinnati’s poverty rate is 28.7%, while Covington’s is 24.7%. Median income is $36,400 in Cincinnati and $38,300 in Covington. About 15% of people on both sides of the river don’t have a high school diploma. And the share without health insurance is 13% in Covington and 11% in Cincinnati. ALBERT CESARE, PHIL DIDION/THE ENQUIRER

THE MYTHOLOGY AROUND MONEY A mericans tell a story about poverty that goes something like this: If the poor work hard enough, they won’t be poor anymore.

❚ There is truth in this, of course. America is a nation built on hard

work. History teems with tales of self-made men and women, of entrepreneurs and astronauts and presidents who started with little and achieved their dreams. ❚ But there’s mythology in that story, too. Tens of millions of poor Americans spend lifetimes working hard, only to ﬁ nd it isn’t enough. ❚ Kids who grow up in poverty are as much as 75 times more likely to be poor in adulthood than those who don’t. And workers struggling to overcome those odds are rewarded less for their labor than they used to be. The productivity of American workers has increased 70% since 1979, but their average hourly pay has gone up less than 12%. Wages aren’t the only problem. Predatory lending can trap poor families in a costly cycle of debt. Gentriﬁ cation can transform neighborhoods for the better while pricing the poor out of their homes. And institutional barriers, from discriminatory housing policies to job restrictions on peo-

ple who’ve committed minor crimes, can stand in the way. Hard work is important. That part of the American story is still true. But for millions living in poverty, the rest of the tale often feels more like ﬁ ction. Today, The Enquirer begins Part 3 of its yearlong series, The Long, Hard Road, telling the stories of people who live, work and struggle along 80 miles in the heart of Greater Cincinnati.

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THE LONG, HARD ROAD PART 3

CHANGE COMES WITH A COST

Jerome Manigan, 72, lived in the house behind him on Larona Avenue in Avondale for 68 years. His parents bought it in 1940. He sold it in 2015 because he feared he would otherwise be displaced by corporate expansion into the neighborhood. He now lives in Northern Kentucky. PHOTOS BY SAM GREENE/THE ENQURER

erome Manigan stands in front of his Avondale home, where he’s lived for 68 of his 72 years, and remembers the families who lived here. Once, they owned homes in Cincinnati’s bedrock black community. Today, they are mostly gone. The family names come easily as Manigan speaks. McIntosh. Williams. Bowen. Hargrove. Rev. Conners. Educators, pianists, politicians, chefs, nurses. “Great people, good people, helping-hands people, kind people,” he says. “An aspiring neighborhood, a solid middle-class black neighborhood.” He hasn’t been back to the Avenue District neighborhood of Avondale since he sold his two-story, 2,900square-foot brick house in 2015. Over the years, he’s seen his neighborhood

give way to a Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden parking lot, a later zoo expansion and, most recently, to the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. The hospital bought dozens of houses and eventually tore many of them down to make room for an eightstory, $550 million expansion across Erkenbrecher Avenue. All cities evolve, but most do so by sweeping aside properties that are deemed less valuable than what will replace them. The burden of that loss is not always shared equally. In Cincinnati, black neighborhoods often have lost the most, from the razing of the black-majority neighborhood of Kenyon-Barr in the 1950s to the homes lost to the hospital expansion here on Manigan’s old street. Those left behind continue to pay a price. A Brookings Institute study in 2018 found that similar homes in majority black neighborhoods in Cincinnati are worth almost 9% less ($10,262 per home on average) than those in white Cincinnati neighborhoods. Still, Manigan begins with this disclaimer: “I am happy that these sick children are being taken care of. That

The eight-story, $550 million expansion of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center marks its entry into the Avenue District of Avondale.

shows compassion and love. That shows the desire to heal. What disappoints me and many others is that the same expressions of compassion, love and goodwill were not shown to the people of this neighborhood.” Besides the stable community that has been lost, says Manigan, many black families lost the wealth provided by generations of home ownership. They could never get this much house for the money anywhere else. Manigan remembers that, as a child

in the ‘50s, he walked uphill on Rockdale Avenue to Rockdale Academy. Over here, he says, lived the owner of the biggest black mortician business. Over there is the house where former world heavyweight boxing champion Ezzard Charles lived. Up ahead, near the steel-and-glass framework of Children’s Hospital, Manigan points to the spot where the St. James and AME Church once stood. Looking around, he sees the childhood home of former Cincinnati Public Schools Superintendent Rosa Blackwell and the home of retired Cincinnati Public Schools teacher Joel McCray. There’s a story for almost every house and every vacant lot and stretch of land. Ending the tour, Manigan is back in front of the house his parents bought in 1940. He’s having a diﬃ cult time leaving. “We had a beautiful patch of blackeyed Susans right there,” he says, again pointing. He always thought he’d die in Avondale. He lives in Northern Kentucky now. – By Mark Curnutte

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IN MEDICAL SCHOOL, SLOW GAINS

In the ﬁ rst-year class at the University of Cincinnati Medical School, 23% of the 185 new students are people of color, the most ever. While gender equality has been achieved in medical education, economic diversity lags. To apply at UC, the fees total $400, though waivers are available. Still, getting in means shouldering close to $200,000 on average in student-loan debt. Economic diversity matters. Because in many ways it plays itself out in how people of color have access to medical care. In Cincinnati, the life expectancy in largely white neighborhoods, for example, is 20 years longer than in black neighborhoods. First-year med student Adam Butler, left, says, “In addition to being the best physician possible, I want to represent the kids who have the dreams of being a doctor but haven’t really seen one who looks like them.” Halimat Olamiyan, right, says she can’t wait to someday,” tell a sickle-cell patient, I have been here, and I know what you’re going through.” Fernando Blank, center, who is bilingual, says, “When I was at Ohio State, people would arrive from other places, like Cuba, and I was able to greet them in their language, and I could see the weight was lifted.”

Austin Thompson receives his white coat during the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine white coat ceremony for incoming medical students in early August. PHOTOS BY ALBERT CESARE/THE ENQUIRER

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NOT ENOUGH ROOM FOR EVERYONE

Willa Jones has lived at Parkway Towers in Over-the-Rhine for seven years after being homeless for ﬁ ve. She is being forced to search for affordable housing as the owners are pushing tenants out for renovations. PHOTOS BY JEFF DEAN/THE ENQUIRER

illa Jones walks through the parking lot toward her apartment at Parkway Towers in Over-the-Rhine. She’s lived here for the past seven years after being homeless for ﬁ ve, after her husband died. It’s the ﬁ rst place she found after living on the streets, when she had nothing. Now, she’s being forced to move. She passes the building maintenance man. “Why’s you putting me out?” she asks. He looks at her then walks away, leaving unanswered the question Jones and so many of her neighbors are asking. As Jones walks toward her building, she greets almost everyone she sees. “Hi, Miss Willa,” one man says as he

Willa Jones is well known at the Parkway Towers in Over-the-Rhine where she has lived for for seven years.

passes. These are her neighbors or people who work at Findlay Market where she sells Streetvibes, a newspaper of-

fered through the Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition. The coalition helped her get a lawyer three years ago when the battle to delay displacement of those in her apartment house began. The lawyer held them off for a year, but again, the owners of the building tried to force Jones and her neighbors to move. Jones was told that the apartment house owners wanted to widen the hallways and make the units bigger, turning 100 apartments into 49. Jones tried to convince them to move everyone to one side of the building and renovate in sections. They told her that would cost too much money. Finally, they off ered the 62-yearold woman a stipend attached to moving expenses, and she said she would take it. Now, because of Jones’ success, everyone in the building can choose to have the owners help them move, or they’ll get $800 to cover the costs. This kind of shifting of populations to establish new housing and new businesses in a languishing neighborhood is referred to as gentrifi cation.

It’s been happening in small pockets in most of the nation’s largest cities but, in Cincinnati, most noticeably along Vine Street in Over-the-Rhine. The upside is a sparkling new part of town, ﬁ lled with trendy shops, hot restaurants and hopeful entrepreneurs. The downside is that people who live there are priced out of housing, forced to move. Jones now must ﬁ nd a new apartment. She needs to stay near Findlay Market, where she sells her newspapers. She also needs to stay close to the soup kitchens and food banks where she gets most of her food, especially since her food stamp money has been reduced from $200 to $15. The food bank where Jones used to lunch every day is now open only on weekends. There’s not enough demand now because so many of those in need have moved. The medical clinic she used to frequent has been shuttered, too, and she is unsure where she’ll get help now when she needs it. Even the homeless shelter on the block has been relocated in the name of progress. - By Rachel Berry

cincinnati.com ❚ SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2019 ❚ 7G

THE BALLAD OF REGINALD STROUD

Reginald Stroud greets customers from behind the counter of Anybody’s Dream, his convenience store in Northside. Stroud’s store and home used to be on Walnut Street in Over-the-Rhine, but he had to move when developers bought his building. AMANDA ROSSMANN/THE ENQUIRER

eginald Stroud hears the music and wishes he had never left. Leaving wasn’t his choice. Everyone knows that. He raised his kids here on Walnut Street, opened a martial arts studio and sold candies for 2 cents apiece at his convenience store. The rainbow-colored sign out front said, “Anybody’s Dream Variety Store by Reginald.” It was perfect, as far as Stroud was concerned. He never wanted to leave. Five years later, though, here he is. A stranger in his own neighborhood. It’s early August, and Stroud is making his way through the crowd around Washington Park, moving closer to the choir and the song he came to hear. “Anybody’s Dream Variety Store. Anything you need, anything and more.” Stroud ﬁ nds a spot to listen near

the choir. The song is about him, about his store, which should be surprising but isn’t. Anybody’s Dream was the kind of place people visited every day, part convenience store, part community center. Need a bag of chips? A nail clipper? Anybody’s Dream had it. Need advice or a kind word? Stroud had that, too. He also had jars and jars of 2-cent candy, watermelon and strawberry and cherry, the same kind he used to buy when he was little. The kids loved the stuff , and Stroud loved having them around. The Army veteran talked about martial arts and discipline, about chasing dreams. He was chasing his, he’d say. Right here on Walnut Street. “You don’t have to be a millionaire, but you need a dream to walk in there.” Stroud awoke one day to fi nd a letter taped to his front door. The building had been sold to a developer, and Stroud and his family had to go. Over-the-Rhine had been changing for more than a decade and now change had come to Anybody’s Dream Variety Store. Investors were buying old row houses and storefronts, fi xing them up and charging higher rents. This was, in many ways, a good

Gentriﬁcation brings beneﬁts to cities, but not for everyone Development in urban areas is accelerating and rents are rising, leaving less affordable housing for the poor. Here’s the percentage of low-income neighborhoods that have seen large increases in rent in recent decades in U.S. cities.

24%

10% 1990 to 2000

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Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development The Enquirer/Dan Horn and Michael Nyerges

thing. But not in all ways. Instead of being part of the renaissance, some people, like Stroud, were being pushed out.

Median income today is $52,000 in the part of Over-the-Rhine that Stroud used to call home – twice what it was in 2010. And African-Americans, who made up more than half the population then, now account for about one-third. “Heard he had to get a new address … Heard he had to get a new address.” It’s been months since the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra called to tell Stroud it was commissioning a song about him for an event celebrating the community. He wasn’t sure what to expect, but as he stands in the crowd today, taking it all in, he decides it’s a good song. When the Cincinnati Men’s Chorus ﬁ nishes the performance, Stroud makes his way out of the crowd and heads home, which is now in Northside. Starting over is expensive and hard, but that’s what he’s doing. His kids are in new schools and he’s teaching martial arts out of his house. He has a store there, too, with a rainbow-colored sign out front and jars ﬁ lled with 2-cent candy by the counter. He calls the place Anybody’s Dream. – By Dan Horn

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OVERWHELMED

Football motivated Da’Quan Smith to do well in school after outside forces once threatened to knock him off course. Smith plays football at Taft High School. PHOTOS BY JEFF DEAN/THE ENQUIRER

a’Quan Smith scrolls through his phone, searching for his grades. His mentor sits across from him in a conference room at Taft Information Technology High School, less than a mile from Vine Street. The junior earned all As so far this year. His GPA is soaring, two points higher than its lowest point when he was a freshman. Two years ago, Da’Quan witnessed his uncle’s slaying, and afterward the avid football player avoided going outside. His grades plummeted, bottoming out around a 1.50 GPA. His father was in prison then, and

Da’Quan Smith, right, kneels during football practice at Taft High School.

still is today, and his grandmother died not long before he lost his uncle. Da’Quan’s mother, Keva Gray,

feared losing her son, too. “He acted like he didn’t have anything to live for. Life was overwhelming.”

Da’Quan and millions of other kids suff er daily from what experts call “adverse childhood experiences,” such as violence, hunger, divorce, neglect, drug abuse and poverty. One study found that those who experience them are about 1.5 times more likely to not graduate high school and about 2.5 times more likely to be unemployed, compared to those who don’t. Da’Quan hopes to do better. He maintains his grades in part to continue playing as a safety and receiver on the high school football team. He’s hoping for a college scholarship. An after-school study hall helps to keep the grades up, providing the quiet atmosphere he prefers. Taft lost its fi rst game this year, but Da’Quan is confi dent his team will bounce back. “I feel like you can’t give up,” he says. “You can’t give up on anything.” – By Max Londberg

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THE PRICE OF BEAUTY (SCHOOL) Criminal records stifle wages and job opportunities

n March 2007, police caught Shaunae Jackson smoking marijuana, holding an amount that has since been decriminalized in Cincinnati. The misdemeanor conviction resulted in a $150 ﬁ ne, but the true punishment came later. The blemish on her record made it nearly impossible to leave a “dead end” job at a sandwich shop. She nearly landed a job at a local hospital but was turned down after a background check. So she did one of the few things she could: enrolled at Cincinnati’s Empire Beauty School. Tuition wasn’t cheap. She received a $7,000 grant and covered the remaining $11,000 with a loan. She hustled for the next year and a half, attending night classes to allow time for her side job and her two

Governments impose almost 20,000 restrictions nationwide on employment for people convicted of felonies and misdemeanors. These can bar applicants from a wide range of jobs and limit their ability to earn a living wage. Locked out of the labor market Annual earnings because of criminal convictions for men at age 45 $39,100 $23,500 1 in 4 Americans Source: U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

young children. She graduated in 2013 and found work as a stylist. But the 33-year-old College Hill resident remains thousands of dollars in beauty school debt. “When you try to go the straight and narrow,” Jackson said, “it’s kind of like all these obstacles that you have to try to ﬁ ght through.”

Has not been incarcerated

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The Enquirer/Dan Horn and Michael Nyerges

The cost is so high because, in most states, it takes 12 times as many educational hours to get a cosmetology license as it takes to become certiﬁ ed as an emergency medical technician. According to the Institute of Justice, aspiring cosmetologists need 1,500 hours to graduate and be licensed in Ohio while EMTs need 150.

In addition to the cost, Jackson had to make sure her misdemeanor record wouldn’t run afoul of Ohio’s cosmetology licensing rules, which, like those in many states, can consider “moral character” before approving applicants. In her case, it wasn’t an issue. But not everyone is so lucky. Nationwide, nearly 20,000 rules and regulations restrict employment opportunities for people with criminal records. Jackson, her hair streaked with pink dye, took time away from work on a recent weekday to try to ﬁ nally remove the decade-old misdemeanor from her record. At a free Hamilton County clinic, about a block from Vine Street, she learned she may qualify. She’s awaiting a date to make her case before a judge. Her children are older now, preteens, and the family is starting to feel cramped in their current home. Though she’s saved enough to move, landlords are rejecting her applications. One told her she didn’t pass a background check. – By Max Londberg

LIVING IN ‘UNBANKED’ COMMUNITIES About 9 million households in the United States don’t have a checking or savings account. Surveys show many “unbanked” or “underbanked” people don’t trust banks or believe they don’t earn enough to bother setting up an account. But others say they stay away from banks because of high fees or lack of access. While banks have been closing branches everywhere, the losses have been greater in low income neighborhoods, according to S&P Global. The costs of living without a bank account are high. A University of Pennsylvania Wharton School public policy initiative found that using alternative ﬁ nancial resources, such as payday lenders, costs households an additional $108 a month. Sources: FDIC, The Wharton School and Bloomberg

PHOTOS BY JEFF DEAN/THE ENQUIRER

10G ❚ SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2019 ❚ THE ENQUIRER

THE LONG, HARD ROAD PART 3

THE LONG WALK

Neil Nicks walks uphill on Vine Street. Nicks, 47, is coming home from a job placement center. Google Maps says the trip should take 12 minutes, but Nicks has cerebral palsy and walks with a cane. It takes him more than an hour. He does it nearly every day. PHOTOS BY CARA OWSLEY/THE ENQUIRER

Neil Nicks walks on his toes, shuﬄ ing forward with knees pointed inward. His heels almost stick out the back of his shoes, which don’t have laces but Velcro straps. Nicks has cerebral palsy, a disability that can aﬀ ect one’s mobility. He uses a cane. He is leaving a job placement facility and walking home in 92 degree heat. Google Maps says Nicks’ walk should take 12 minutes. It takes him more than an hour. Nicks receives public assistance but wishes he didn’t need to. He’d rather be working. But like the majority of people with disabilities in America, he’s not. According to a study done by the University of New Hampshire, only about 36% of working-age Americans with disabilities have jobs.

People with disabilities earn less and are more likely to be poor The obstacles facing people with disabilities go beyond physical limitations. Here’s a comparison between median earnings and poverty rates in the U.S. for those with and without disabilities.

Median earnings $32,479

Poverty rate

$22,047

With disabilities

Nicks crosses Vine and McMillan streets near the University of Cincinnati.

21% 13%

Without disabilities

Source: Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire

With disabilities

Without disabilities The Enquirer/Dan Horn and Michael Nyerges

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HELL TO PAY

Legal Aid Society’s Nick DiNardo reviews the ﬁ le of one of his clients, who spent more than $3,000 in fees on a payday loan. JEFF DEAN/THE ENQUIRER

ick DiNardo looks over the stack of folders next to his desk and plucks out the one for the single mother he met this spring. He remembers her walking into his offi ce at the Legal Aid Society in downtown Cincinnati with a grocery bag fi lled with papers and a story he’d heard at least a hundred times. DiNardo opens the fi le and shakes his head, looking over the numbers. “I hate these guys,” he says. The “guys” he’s talking about are payday lenders, though DiNardo often just refers to them as “fraudsters.” They’re the guys who set up shop in strip malls and old convenience stores with neon signs promising FAST CASH and EZ MONEY. Most payday loan customers are poor, earning about $30,000 a year. Most pay exorbitant fees and interest rates that have run as high as 590%. And most don’t read the fi ne print,

which can be unforgiving. DiNardo, a lawyer who has fought payday lenders for years, fl ips through the pages of the single mom’s fi le. He’d spent hours organizing the receipts and documents she’d carried into his offi ce that fi rst day in the grocery bag. He found the trouble started when she’d gone to a payday lender in April 2018 for an $800 loan. She was working but needed the money to cover some surprise expenses. The lender handed her a contract and a pen. On its face, the deal didn’t sound so bad. For $800, she’d make monthly payments of $222 for four months. She used her car, which she owned free and clear, as collateral. But there was a catch: At the end of those four months, she found out she owed a lump sum payment of $1,037 in fees. She couldn’t aff ord to pay. The lender told her not to worry and handed her another contract. This time, she received a new loan to cover the fees from the fi rst loan. After paying $230 for 11 months, she thought she was done. But she wasn’t. The lender said she owed another lump sum of $1,045 in fees. The lender handed her another contract. She paid $230 a month for

two more months before everything fell apart. She was going broke. She couldn’t aﬀ ord to pay the rent and utilities. She couldn’t buy her kid clothes for school. But she was afraid to stop paying the loan because they might seize her car, which she needed for work. By this time, she’d paid $3,878 for that original $800 loan. DiNardo called the lender and said he’d sue if they didn’t stop taking her money. After some haggling, they settled for what she’d already paid. DiNardo slips the single mom’s folder back into the stack next to his desk. She got to keep her car, he says, but she lost about $3,000 she couldn’t aﬀ ord to lose. She was barely making it. The loan almost wiped her out. DiNardo hopes a new Ohio law regulating the loans will mean fewer cases like hers in the future, but he’s not sure. While mortgage rates go for 3.5% and car loans hover around 5%, poor people without access to credit will still turn to payday lenders. And when they do, even under the new law, they’ll pay interest rates and fees as high as 60%. In DiNardo’s world, this is progress. – By Dan Horn

The poor use expensive payday loans more than anyone else People who earn less than $40,000 a year are three times more likely to use payday loans, which charge signiﬁcantly higher annual interest rates.

Annual percentage interest rates: Mortgage loan 3.35% Car loan 5.23% Credit card loan 17% Payday loan

391% Source: Pew Charitable Trusts, Bankrate.com, creditcards.com The Enquirer/Dan Horn and Michael Nyerges

12G ❚ SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2019 ❚ THE ENQUIRER

THE LONG, HARD ROAD PART 3

THE WAY OUT

Brian Gregg, top left, applauds as the adoption is ﬁ nalized for the Durel sisters, Mariah, 10, and Aubree, 7. The girls were part of the Back to School Adoption Day at the Hamilton County Probate Court in August. PHOTOS BY MEG VOGEL/THE ENQUIRER

rian Gregg steps out of the elevator and into a lobby overfl owing with children, dozens and dozens of them, so many he can barely see the white tile fl oor beneath all the tiny feet. “Oh, wow,” he says. It’s an early August morning, adoption day in Hamilton County Probate Court, and Gregg is here to help manage media coverage. As communications director for Job and Family Services, this is one of his favorite days. Unlike many kids in his agency’s care, the boys and girls here aren’t sleeping on blue cots with worn stuff ed animals, waiting for a social worker to fi nd them a foster home. They aren’t hungry, impoverished or neglected. They may have started out that way, as thousands do every year in Hamilton County. But today, they’re here in lace dresses and buttoneddown shirts, ready to trade old lives for new ones. Gregg smiles as he makes his way through the sea of children. He doesn't know these kids, but he knows their stories. A lifetime ago, his story wasn’t so diff erent from theirs. Gregg wasn’t adopted, but he un-

Gregg, Hamilton County Job & Family Services communications director, joins a meeting with the executive board of JFS.

derstands what it takes to change the course of a life that begins in poverty. Almost half of children who experience extreme poverty end up poor as adults, compared to just 1% of those who don’t grow up poor. Those are lousy odds. And Gregg knows how hard it is for anyone, child or adult, to beat them without catching a break. For the kids here today, that break is getting adopted into stable families. For others, it might be a college scholarship or a good job with health insur-

ance. Gregg's mom, a teenager when he was born, made $2.42 an hour taking care of patients at a state mental institution. His step-father, who stuck around a few years longer than his dad, got a job at a roller bearing mill. They worked nights and weekends, leaving Gregg at home to make dinner for his younger siblings. He was still in grade school, but he ﬁ gured it out. When the pantry was empty, Gregg walked to the grocery store with food stamps and hunted for bargains. Twofor-one hot dog packs. Mac-n-cheese. Hamburger Helper. Once, the kids ate leftover birthday cake for breakfast every day for a week. His family moved a lot. The rent would go up or an eviction notice would appear on the door, and his mom would tell everyone to pack. At 13, Gregg took a summer job going door-to-door selling products made by blind people. Lint brushes. Ironing board covers. No item cost more than $6.95. Gregg got $1 per sale. A guy in a van picked him up at 7 a.m. and brought him home at 9 p.m. He worked every day but Sunday. Gregg was a friendly kid and a good talker. Some weeks, he brought home as much as $200. When his mom asked him to help with the rent, she called it a loan. But they both knew better. Because there was no phone in the house, Gregg gave his high school girlfriend the number to a payphone. “Call me at 10 p.m.,” he’d tell her. Then he’d walk to the booth in the dark and wait for the phone to ring.

Gregg worked hard in school and was a good student, but he didn’t see a future outside his hometown of Massillon, Ohio. He told his mom he was going to be a salesman. “You’re going to college,” she told him. Gregg thought she was crazy. They couldn’t aff ord it, he told her. But once she put the idea in his head, he couldn’t shake it. His mom had taught him, maybe without knowing it, that being poor meant living day-to-day. It meant working to survive, not necessarily to get ahead. To get out, to really change his life, he needed to make the right choice when it was staring him in the face. This was his break, he decided. Another might never come. So Gregg applied for every scholarship and loan he could fi nd. He got a Pell Grant. He got three jobs. And he got into college. It was a choice that would, years later, lead him to a wife and two kids, to a house in Cincinnati’s suburbs, and to a job with an agency that serves about 200,000 poor families whose stories he knows better than most. Gregg takes a seat in the back of the courtroom for the adoption proceedings, which are about to begin. He watches as parents sign paperwork and kids fi dget in chairs that are too big for them, tugging at skirts and shirt collars. After a few minutes, the judge walks into the room and says some of the truest words Gregg has ever heard. “This is a special day.” – By Dan Horn

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THE NARROW BRIDGE

As she looks into her future, Nakia Colbert, 33, has more modest goals than she did 20 years ago. MEG VOGEL/THE ENQUIRER

Children raised in poverty are far more likely to stay poor as adults Digging out of poverty is hard. Kids who spend at least half their childhoods in poverty have a signiﬁcantly greater chance of remaining poor into adulthood, compared with kids who don’t grow up poor.

akia Colbert wanted to be a lawyer when she grew up. She’s not. But she is learning a lot about the law these days. She’s a single mother living in poverty and ﬁ lled with fear. The oldest of her four children and her only son, 15, is charged with robbery and aggravated murder in the shooting death of his 15-year-old friend, even though he didn’t pull the trigger. He stands accused of the boy’s murder because he was involved in the crime that left him dead. His mother, in ways small and now terrifyingly large, has learned the hard lesson that it’s a narrow bridge out of poverty. Jennifer Colbert, Nakia’s mother, had done everything she could to keep the ravages of poverty away from her children. At 31, she completed the Cincinnati Housing Authority’s Kaleidoscope job readiness program. She

Percentage who were never poor in childhood and are poor as adults

0.6%

Source: National Center for Children in Poverty

landed a full-time job, kicked a threeyear cocaine and marijuana addiction. As Jennifer turned her life around, the behavior and school performance of her ﬁ ve children improved, too. Nakia was all smiles in a January 1999 Enquirer front page photo. The self-conﬁ dent 13-year-old didn’t want to “sit on the couch and wait for the mailman to bring the government check.” Jennifer had pulled her out of Porter Middle School near the family’s Lin-

Percentage who were poor at least half of childhood and are poor as adults

45.3%

The Enquirer/Dan Horn and Michael Nyerges

coln Court apartment and placed her in the Jacob’s Center magnet school in Winton Place. Jennifer wanted Nakia to focus on learning. Nakia went on to Withrow High School. That’s when the trouble started. “When I thought I knew more than my mom did,” Nakia says. “I wanted to be on the streets.” She dropped out, getting pregnant at 18. With just a GED, she began a series of food-service jobs.

Colbert and her mother, Jennifer Colbert, were featured in a 1999 Enquirer project, Everybody’s Children. THE ENQUIRER FILE

“I had my chance,” Nakia says. Nakia, 33, works full-time as a cook in a downtown restaurant. She makes $3 more an hour than she did at a fastfood place in Northside. Yet she and her family still live in public housing and qualify to receive government food and medical assistance. Her dreams are less ambitious than they were when she was 13. Within a decade, she says, she’d like to see her family out of public housing. – By Mark Curnutte

14G ❚ SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2019 ❚ THE ENQUIRER

THE LONG, HARD ROAD PART 3

SCRIMPING

The nonproﬁ t Cancer Justice Network sends “navigators” to events such as the weekly meal at Christ Church in Downtown to help poor adults.

o treat her diabetes, Martice Weaver injects insulin, which requires precise dosage on a schedule to keep her blood sugar level. Without that precision, her health is in jeopardy. But because the price of the medicine has soared, Weaver rations her insulin. Without her doctor’s guidance, she is using less than she needs. She knows the practice isn’t smart. On a Tuesday night in early August, Weaver stops into Christ Church downtown for a free dinner and, to her surprise, she is oﬀ ered some medical help. Sitting with Patricia Youngblood at one table, Weaver describes her dilemma. Youngblood jots notes. The weekly dinner is an outreach of

Martice Weaver was surprised to ﬁ nd help for her medical problems at Christ Church Cathedral. PHOTOS BY JEFF DEAN/THE ENQUIRER

the Cancer Justice Network, a nonprofi t group of paid “navigators” who forge connections to medical care for people without homes or with low incomes. Steve Sunderland created the Cancer Justice Network four years ago after his wife went through cancer treatment. He remembers the bewilderment, the fear, the confusion even though the couple had resources. Sunderland soon realized that many people need help for simple, basic care: getting new glasses or teeth fi xed. Weaver, a cook at an Avondale nursing home, explains to Youngblood that she can’t aff ord her medication. Youngblood says she will work to get Weaver into the clinic at St. Vincent de Paul, which is staff ed by medical students at the University of Cincinnati. “And if there’s a way that they can help you,” says Youngblood, “they will.” Weaver is grateful. Maybe she can feel better soon. – By Anne Saker

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FEW OPTIONS

Tiesha Brown lost her IRS job when the agency wanted to relocate her out of state without moving costs. The mother of four daughters knows she can get a part-time job at Kroger and hopes that she can go back to school. KAREEM ELGAZZAR/THE ENQUIRER

iesha Brown knows her days at the IRS center are limited. She sits at her desk, talks with her remaining coworkers and thinks about her future. They’ve known since March that the Covington IRS processing center, which employs 1,800 people, would close in September. Some of her coworkers will relocate to nearby cities like Florence and Cincinnati. Brown contemplates the oﬀ er she got: Move to Utah or Missouri for a job with the IRS – without moving expenses. That might be an option for employees with more resources, but not for her. Brown has four daughters. She helps her 19-year-old go to school at Northern Kentucky University. She listens to her 11-year-old daughter talk about her new school. Once every

three months, she sees her twin 5year-olds who no longer live with her. She has decided to stay in the Greater Cincinnati area and step away from the government job that once brought security to her life. She’s entitled to a severance package that’s worth about $4,000. But that won’t come until six weeks after her last day. She tells herself she’ll draw from her savings account until then, that everything will be fi ne. Throughout her fi ve years at the center, she went to work even during the toughest moments. She had to take time off once, for a month, to care for an ailing aunt in Georgia. That set her behind on rent, which sent her and her 11-year-old to a homeless shelter for some time. Brown continued working, though, and moved out of the shelter and into a Section 8 townhouse. The offi ce is pretty empty now. She does busy work and talks quietly with her coworkers about their plans. Brown plans to leave the center before the fi nal closing day. She knows she can get a part-time job at Kroger. – By Julia Fair

The IRS center in Covington, Ky., will close for good on Sept. 28. PHIL DIDION, ALBERT CESARE/THE ENQUIRER

16G ❚ SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2019 ❚ THE ENQUIRER

THE LONG, HARD ROAD PART 3

Shannon Glover is raising her son, Sidney, 8, in Covington, where she grew up in an impoverished family. She is going to Northern Kentucky University and living in the Lincoln Grant Scholar House to help “break those chains” of poverty. PHOTOS BY MEG VOGEL/THE ENQUIRER

THE LIGHT IS ON Energy costs hit poor harder and force tough choices Low-income families struggle more to pay utility bills and more often forgo food, medicine or other needs to pay those bills. The level of energy insecurity increases as income decreases.

idney wakes up to his alarm at 6:30 a.m. He opens his eyes to the light above his fi sh tank that he insists on leaving on at all times, “because the fi sh might get lonely or scared at night.” Before leaving for Holy Cross Elementary School in Latonia at 7:20 a.m., the 8-year-old will have done a lot of brushing, washing, cleaning, as well as feeding his fi sh and his turtle. Sidney is a someday scientist, a solid listener and an independent little boy. Shannon Glover, 47, of Covington, has spent most of her adult life trying to make sure he struggles less than she did. Her own mother could not always be there to guide her. Delores Glover

Percent experiencing energy insecurity by income 11.4%

11% 6.3% 3.9% 1.8%

$0-$20K

$20K-$40K

$40K-$60K $60K-$80K $80K-$100K

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration

struggled to keep bills paid. Shannon did not always wake to a light in their Covington home. When the lights failed to turn on, the neighbors paid a couple of dollars for meals her mother made on the outdoor grill,

1% $100K+

The Enquirer/Dan Horn and Michael Nyerges

anything to pay the bills. Shannon wants a diﬀ erent life for her son. But that’s why she’s here at the Lincoln Grant Scholar House in Covington. It is an apartment speciﬁ cally designed for single parents pur-

suing higher education. It off ers guided activities for children and a study area with computers for adults. It provides all kinds of help to keep its tenants free of burdensome costs, including funding for a broken down car. Shannon had a brief encounter with college once before but didn’t fi nish. She got pregnant at 19 and moved to Dallas to pursue a dream of culinary school. Fast-forward several years and add Sidney who was born on Dec. 15, 2010. Shannon moved back to Covington with the baby, promising herself that this child would grow up without experiencing even a trace of poverty. “I tell him, ‘We don’t live a rapper’s lifestyle. Life is not defi ned by how many chains you have. What kind of car you have. Do you have a car? Does it get you where you’re going? Then you are blessed.’ ” On one recent Friday evening in August, Sidney watched his mother, who is now back in school, up close. He sways from side to side, eyeing

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Sidney Glover looks out the window of his room at the Scholar House in Covington before school.

Shannon Glover displays her graduation tassel in her car as a reminder to her son that he can achieve anything he sets his mind to.

his mom preparing dinners at Lil’s Bagels in Covington. Huge, aluminum pans ﬁ ll with pounds of chicken, and trays are lined with shrimp and veggie skewers. “What am I doing?” she asks him. “Working,” Sidney says. Only this cooking extravaganza isn’t an emergency meal-making venture to get money for the electric bill. This time, the lights are already on. – By Terry DeMio

Sidney Glover washes his face before school at his mom’s apartment at the Scholar House.

18G ❚ SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2019 ❚ THE ENQUIRER

THE LONG, HARD ROAD PART 3

MORE RENTERS THAN OWNERS

A woman walks along Vine Street in front of the VA Hospital in Cincinnati. JEFF DEAN/THE ENQUIRER

Cincinnati is a city of renters, with about 62% of housing units occupied by renters as opposed to home owners. That’s one of the highest rental housing rates among major cities in the region. In Columbus, 55% of housing units are rentals. In Louisville, Lexington and Indianapolis, more own homes than rent. Renting isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but the trend toward more rentals in Cincinnati matters because home ownership is one of the most reliable paths to accumulate wealth. Homes are investments. Over time, they should grow in value and help communities retain residents and families. Source: The U.S. Census

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Some of the reasons why the

POOR STAY POOR Data analysis by Dan Horn • Graphics by Michael Nyerges

MORE WORK, MODEST REWARD Thanks at least in part to technological advances, American workers are signiﬁcantly more efﬁcient and productive than they were just a few decades ago. But wages haven’t kept up with that growth. Here is a comparison of the cumulative percent growth in worker productivity and worker pay since 1948.

300% 250% 200%

252.9%

Productivity Wages

150%

115.6%

100% 50% 0

1958

1948

1968

1978

RACE AND HOMEOWNERSHIP

2018

annual percentage interest 391% Average rate on a payday loan

-$48,000

-$10,262

-$23,181

-$18,200

-$27,912

U.S.

Cincinnati

Columbus

Indianapolis

Louisville

Average earnings of a typical

$30K payday loan borrower

Share of borrowers who use the loans

70% for basic expenses like rent and utilities

-8.7%

fees paid by borrowers $9B Total on payday loans in 2016

-10%

-17.6%

-15% -20%

2008

Payday loans are a stopgap for millions of Americans, most of them poor people with limited access to credit. Annual percentage interest rates are signiﬁcantly higher than for other loans and many borrowers become stuck in a cycle of debt.

DIFFERENCE IN VALUE OF HOME IN BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD

-5%

1998

THE POOR AND PAYDAY LOANS

Owning a home is one of the best ways to build wealth, but it’s harder for African Americans. The chart below shows how homes of similar quality in black neighborhoods are valued lower than those in white neighborhoods.

1988

Percent more likely it is for renters to take

57% out a payday loan than homeowners

-21.1%

-23%

-27.1%

-25%

amount of interest $520 Average paid on a $375 loan

-30%

LEFT BEHIND BY DEVELOPMENT Gentriﬁcation can transform neighborhoods, bringing in new businesses, homeowners and taxes. But when prosperity moves in, the poor don’t always beneﬁt. The map below shows how development in census tracts south of Liberty Street in Over-the-Rhine has changed that part of the neighborhood, compared with tracts north of Liberty.

OvertheRhine

ne Vi

Highest

Percentage increase in median income by census tract, 2010* to 2017

TRACT A 2010

OvertheRhine

207 225

2017

Median income by census tract in 2010* and 2017

TRACT A

Lowest

Number of white residents by census tract

2010

Percentage change in white population by census tract, 2010 to 2017

ne Vi

Highest

2017

A Liberty St.

+9%

2010

+299%

Pky. Central

Downtown

267 Liberty St.

TRACT C

TRACT D

2017

847

2017 2010

+100%

65 1,152

Sources: Brookings Institution; Economic Policy Institute; Pew Charitable Trusts; Enquirer analysis of U.S. Census estimates

$11,302*

2017

$15,052

TRACT C

+75% +96% *Adjusted for inflation to 2017 numbers

2010

+33%

251

2010

+1,672% +238%

Mt. Auburn

West End

2017

$16,641

TRACT B

TRACT B Mt. Auburn

West End

$8,343*

2010

$26,728*

2017

$52,386

TRACT D ky.

P Central

Downtown

2010 2017

$18,744* $32,841

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Watering is key to a healthy lawn In the Garden Denny McKeown Guest columnist

The seasons are changing and fall begins tomorrow. Throughout the last couple of weeks it has been very apparent that Mother Nature does not want to let go of summer. Some of the hottest, most humid days have been in the last couple of weeks in September. During this time most of us have had little, if any, rainfall. The high temperatures and lack of rainfall is having an impact on how we proceed with our fall landscape projects. During early summer we were getting too much rain. Through June we had already received over a foot of rain more than what we average for a year. The problem is, unless you have a storage tank or a lake on your property, all of that rain is long gone as far as the soil goes. Lawns are showing signs of stress. To maintain a healthy lawn the grass should receive the equivalent of one inch of rain per week. This can be measured with a rain gauge or a simple straight-sided cup. It is best if you are able to give the grass this water by using a sprinkler two to three times a

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week for a longer period of time. Watering for a longer period of time allows the water to penetrate the soil to deeper levels. This is much better for the roots of the grass. Watering the grass every day for short periods can actually be harmful to the grass because you don’t get the deep penetration and the roots of the grass will stay at the surface. This will leave them more exposed and vulnerable to drying out even quicker. Many of you may have been plan-

ning to plant some grass seed this fall. You might be holding back because of the lack of rain. There is a limited amount of time that seeding can be done eﬀ ectively in the fall and the calendar is moving. The latest you should seed is Oct. 15 if you want to have enough time for the grass to become established before winter. Waiting that long has risks and you should start seeding now for the best results If you are planning to plant any grass seed this fall it is very important

to make sure there is suffi cient moisture in the soil before you plant. This is because before planting the seed you need to do some soil preparation. The soil needs to be loosened with a hard rake. You might also be using a powered over-seeding machine. The raking or the machine will not accomplish anything but stirring up dust unless there is moisture in the soil. The moisture is necessary for holding the soil together so the seed has a nice bed to lay make good contact with the soil. This is necessary for maximum germination. Besides the lawn it is very important to make sure that the plants in your landscape are receiving suffi cient moisture, too. As the weather eventually starts to get colder the plants start to go into dormancy. As this is happening they are trying to take in nutrients to store so they can survive through the winter. Along with nutrients, plants need moisture. Keep an eye on the weather as we go through fall. If this pattern of dry weather continues, give the plants in your beds suffi cient water to make sure they are not going into winter surrounded by dry soil. In the past when I have written similar articles they always have a way of stirring up some rainfall. Let’s hope this one does too.

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Editor’s Note: The column is being written this week by Gloria’s mother, Dorcas Raber, who gives us insight into Amish funeral traditions. After battling cancer courageously for six years, my 74-year-old Uncle Paul passed away. Paul and his wife, Naomi, held a special place in my heart. Way back when I was 17 years old, I had been their maud (maid) when one of their babies was born. Every morning for six weeks, I hopped on my bike and went to their home. I washed milker buckets and dishes, washed clothes with a Maytag wringer washer and cleaned their house. Best of all, I observed a happy home and built a relationship with them. Now we are faced with the startling reality once more that life on earth is very temporal. We traveled 400 miles to the viewing and funeral for Uncle Paul. Everything was held at the “home place” where Paul was born and had lived all his life. The only time he had moved was when he and Naomi moved from the big farmhouse to the Dawdy (grandpa) house. We arrived at 4 p.m. to attend the viewing and there was a line. The

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viewing, which was in its second day, was held in a shop with rows of benches and chairs set up for family and friends. Next to the casket was Naomi, her six children and their partners. How they loved and appreciated their husband and father. The night prior to his death, all six children had been there. At such a time family ties become all the more sweet and strong. After we went through the line, we sat down for supper served to 175 people by the local church. It was delicious: hobo stacks, brownies and ice cream. One of the most memorable parts of the evening was when a group

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of 30 youth gathered and sang songs. The next morning the funeral services were held in a large machinery shed. It seemed fi tting to have a dairy odor drifting into the shed because Uncle Paul had been a dairy farmer all his life. Hundreds of people fi led in and the shed overfl owed, so more benches were set up outside. Rows and rows of women were in front of me. Rows of black dresses and white head coverings. Close to the middle of the shed was the casket with the immediate family next to it. Three ministers each took a turn to comfort, exhort and encourage us.

After the sermons, the obituary was read. Paul and Naomi had been married for 49 years. Next, we all fi led past the casket for one fi nal viewing while friends gathered and sang songs. To me, the loveliest one was the German version of “How Beautiful Heaven Must Be.” Then the immediate family gathered together around the casket and four young men from the local church carried it out to the horse-drawn hearse. At the graveyard the minister shared thoughts and more songs were sung. The fi rst one was “Goodnight, My Beloved.” This song is sung at most every Amish gravesite funeral. Next, the family sang “That Will Be My Last Long Move I’ll Have To Make,” and many others joined in. Slowly, the casket was lowered and then many hands helped cover the grave. At the very last there was complete silence as everyone quietly prayed and said the Lord‘s prayer Lunch was served for everyone, consisting of cold ham and cheese sandwiches, a large stockpot of noodles, big bowls of potato salad and mixed fruit and cupcakes. I did want to share the recipe for Hobo Delight that was served after the viewing.

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Emmy awards 8-11 p.m., Fox. The bad news is that there’s no host this year; Fox says it wants to spend more time on tributes to departing shows, including “Game of Thrones” (leading with 32 nominations), “Veep” and “The Big Bang Theory.” The good news is that lots of fun people will be presenters.

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“Bob (hearts) Abishola” debut 8:30 p.m., CBS. The season’s ﬁ rst new show is a low-key charmer. Billy Gardell (“Mike & Molly”) plays a businessman, specializing in socks; Folake Olowofoyeku plays his cardiac nurse. They have nothing in common, but he’s smitten and determined.

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“Mixed-ish” debut 9 p.m., ABC. For ﬁ ve “Black-ish” seasons, we’ve known Rainbow (Tracee Ellis Ross) as a brainy doctor with biracial roots. Now she narrates her girlhood stories.

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“Stumptown” debut 10 p.m., ABC. Dex (Cobie Smulders of “How I Met Your Mother”) is ex-military, scraping by as a detective. She has a good heart – as shown when she’s with her brother, who has Down syndrome – but she won’t let many people see it.

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“Perfect Harmony” debut 8:30 p.m., NBC. Widowed and weary, Arthur Cochran (Bradley Whitford) is ready to end it all. A former Princeton professor, he’s moping in small-town Kentucky. Then choral music flows from a little church. It’s bad enough to give him something to insult and to rescue.

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“Great Performances” 9 p.m., PBS. For any classical musician, this would be a dream moment. Scott Yoo was in a German pub with his wife, his violin and a friend. The violin was a borrowed Stradivarius ... the wife (Alice Dade) is an acclaimed flutist ... and the pub was one of Bach’s favorites

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“Saturday Night Live” season-opener 11:29 p.m., NBC. The 45th season begins with almost everyone back. Leslie Jones surprised by leaving the show, but Kate McKinnon, after wavering, returned; so did Kenan Thompson (for his record 17th season) and others. “SNL” added Chloe Fineman, Bowen Yang and Shane Gillis.Woody Harrlson hosts the opener, with Billie Eilish, 17, as the music guest.

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idea when he is coming back. I am often left to make camp/school lunches, get kids ready, etc. He will sometimes take them in the mornings if he is back in time. It is the same on weekends. I just want to do a 25-minute exercise tape, but he says I should be doing that while I have a babysitter. We have a babysitter for when I am at work. I need that time to commute to my oﬃ ce and work. I am also still pumping twice a day, so time is stretched. I often have to work at night after kids are asleep, and I don’t love working out at night. My job is incredibly stressful as well. Do you have any suggestions? He isn’t going to change, so I need to change myself. How can I change myself to stop having this deep resentment toward him? I welcome any tips. – Frustrated Well wait a second. It sounds like his you-need-to-get-over-it-ism has wormed its way into your soul. “How can I change myself to stop

having this deep resentment”? Wha? That’s just … no. No, no, no. What our inability to change others means is that we’re all choosing from a set of options limited to what we control – but they are options nonetheless. You can, for example, please, give yourself the love, care, support and respect your husband has failed to. Talk to your doctor, fi nd a compassionate therapist, take your postpartum symptoms seriously. You can also state your case plainly to your husband. If his MO is to dismiss your feelings, then make him dismiss your facts. You can stop saying you have a sitter for when “I am” at work, and make that an unfl inching, “we are.” You can wean, if you’re ready. You can reach out to people you trust to care about you. You can look into your fi nances and rethink this stressful job. You can talk to an attorney. You have agency. Use it.

to the rank of ﬁ ve-star general, joining an elite group that included Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, George C. Marshall and Henry H. “Hap” Arnold. 1961: The Interstate Commerce Commission issued rules prohibiting racial discrimination on interstate buses. 1975: Sara Jane Moore attempted to shoot President Gerald R. Ford outside a San Francisco hotel, but missed. 1980: The Persian Gulf conflict be-

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