News Stories for September 2011
Stories for Sunday, September 25
Police at OSU paid more than $1M in overtime
Two Ohio State University police officers worked so many extra shifts in 2010 that their overtime pay was thousands more than their base salaries, pushing their total compensation over $165,000 each, a Dayton Daily News investigation found. An analysis of university payroll records found overtime shifts are so plentiful that ...
Stories for Saturday, September 24
Ohio district maps rewrite borders
By Ken McCall and Lynn HulseyStaff WritersThe Republican-dominated Ohio Apportionment Board unveiled its proposed Ohio House and Senate district maps on Friday to mixed reactions.The 33 Senate and 99 House districts are redrawn every 10 years, following rules in the Ohio Constitution. The board will hold hearings on the new ...
Cincinnati State faculty on strike
By Kareem ElgazzarStaff WriterCINCINNATI — On the day Cincinnati State’s fifth president was officially inaugurated, a teacher’s strike began — the first in the institution’s history.Approximately 200 full-time faculty went on strike Friday after negotiations between the American Association of University Professors and top-level college officials fell through late Thursday ...
Stories for Friday, September 23
Food pantries discuss budget cuts
By Rick McCrabbStaff WriterLIBERTY TWP. — The weather matched the discussion inside the Miami University Voice of America Learning Center.With Congress making drastic budget cuts, at a time when the economy is still sluggish and the need for food assistance is skyrocketing, Tina Osso, executive director of Shared Harvest Foodbank, ...
Stories for Thursday, September 22
President Obama pushes Boehner to pass jobs bill
CINCINNATI — President Barack Obama implored Republicans to get on board with his jobs bill before thousands at a concrete mixing facility in Cincinnati on Thursday. The American Jobs Act, a $447 billion jobs bill, would set aside money for infrastructure projects like replacing the almost half-century old Brent Spence ...
Market batters AK, First Financial
By Chelsey LevingstonStaff WriterLocal publicly traded companies continued to see their stocks reach their lowest prices in a year Thursday as the Dow Jones dropped 391 points to 10,734.The Dow, a stock index of 30 large, publicly owned companies based in the United States, plummeted more than 500 points before ...
Bridge project won’t start until 2015
By Kareem ElgazzarStaff WriterCINCINNATI — Faced with an uphill battle to secure the necessary $2.4 billion in funds, national, state and local officials will need to figure out a way to pay for construction of a new Brent Spence Bridge.The 48-year-old, dilapidated bridge has been labeled “functionally obsolete,” and President ...
Stories for Monday, September 19
Miami will need more donations for student center
OXFORD — Miami University will look to donors for an additional $3.1 million for the future Armstrong Student Center because of a gap between the estimated and actual cost of the project.Miami estimated construction on the first phase of the center would cost $30.8 million – but bids came back ...
Stories for Tuesday, September 13
Help set record for most people dancing the ‘Cupid Shuffle’
MIDDLETOWN — You are invited to “down, down, do your dance, do your dance” Friday at the Land of Illusion.The haunted theme park now open for the Halloween season will host singer Cupid for an event that will include a world-record attempt at the largest dance of the “Cupid Shuffle,” ...
Stories for Sunday, September 11
Brewery marks 20 years of beer
TRENTON — MillerCoors brewery outside of Trenton celebrates 20 years of producing beer this year. The brewery, one of the largest employers in Butler County, employs 550 people and has a payroll worth $68 million, said interim Plant Manager Jon Hussey. Last year, employees produced close to 9.4 million barrels ...
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