“It's awfully tough to beat Cincinnati at Nippert, especially late in the season. I see the Bearcats winning a great game.” - Adam Rittenberg
“There is a value to preserving the unique architecture of a community and a city, because it actually is part of our competitive advantage.” – Roxanne Qualls
"There's no question more (wins) put more fannies in the seats." – Phil Castellini, Red’s COO.
"Fountain Square is the only thing that's changed. I've worked down here for years and other than the square, it's the same." - Jonathan Carrico, Price Hill
"The city 'speaking apparatus' is again in session. The street railroads want to get rid of their contract to pay one cent for every passenger carried, into the City Treasury. This is about three thousand dollars a month from the railroads now in operation. This is worth fighting about, and there is a good deal of hubbub about it." - Rutherford B. Hayes in an entry in his Diary to his Uncle dated June 11, 1860. He was City Solicitor at the time. I thought it was funny.
Go ahead and read the whole thing if you haven't already. It is very positive about downtown in general.
"Assuming this goes out right before Thanksgiving, I'm thankful that construction is done on Fountain Square and the 'rolling opening' is done." - Bill Donabedian, managing director of Fountain Square, 3CDC
"… A large number of citizens would dispense with their bread rather than their beer."
". . . The more people who live in the city, the more property taxes that are generated and contributed to our coffers. The more money that people spend in the city, the more sales taxes generated for our city budget. The more money our city has to spend, the more services we can provide to all residents — in all neighborhoods not just downtown.It makes economic sense to focus investment downtown to generate dollars for investment in the inner suburbs and throughout the city." – Joan Kaup, Cincinnati City Council Candidate.
Did anyone read October 2007's Cincinnati Magazine? Their "We Love This Town" issue included, besides the 40 reason why we love this town, profiles of 40 "activists, captains of industry, sports figures, artists, and iconclasts" who helped build this city in the last 40 years. On Cincinnati Magazine's website, they have a "Quotable Notables" web feature. Basically quotes from those forty individuals that were not included in the print magazine. Click here to view them all, but my favorite of the bunch:
"Biggest initiative? I've often rejected that question. The thing I want to change the most is the self-image of the people who live in Cincinnati." - Mayor Mark Mallory.jpg)
