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Come to the Purple People Bridge Oct. 5 at 5:30 to help paint the Path to the Taft. You can see all the great new purple benches and flower planters that citizens have sponsored too.

Leave your mark on Cincinnati and help beautify an important gateway by sponsoring a bench or flower planter for the Purple People Bridge.  The planter and benches will have plaques with the names of sponsors built into them.   Call me at 352-5303 to donate.  Here's the story in today's Enquirer:

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There was no such thing as an Iraqi female politician at the turn of this century, but everything changed after the fall of Sadaam Hussein in 2003. 

A group of female Iraqi parliament members met with me in my office this week. We asked questions of each other and shared a few stories. 

There was a story on CBS News tonight about a guy just freed after 30 years in prison with the help of the Innocent Project.  The Ohio Innocence Project is trying to free Dean Gillispie, a man from Fairborn who has served 20 years.

Governor Ted Strickland has the opportunity and

Council members including Laure Q, Roxanne, and Wendell Y went to Columbus on a bus with about 45 other Cincinnatians to see best practices for ending homelessness. National Church Registries, an organization based in Columbus, is doing fantastic housing.

Check out my trip photos in my gallery by clicking

Today pianos painted by students in the city summer art program "ArtWorks" are out and about in Cincinnati.  You can find two at Fountain Square and one at Music Hall.

Each piano has a "piano buddy" who is supposed to cover it with a tarp whenever it's about to rain.  Anyone

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By Jeremy Jackson, Intern to Council Member Quinlivan

Two wrongs don’t make a right is the newest message from Keep Cincinnati Beautiful. The non-profit organization was recently chosen from a national list of

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The feds came through today and awarded us $25 Million for our streetcar project.  We got the highest amount awarded, along with a few other cities.  I'm grateful to President Obama for creatiing a pot of money for cities serious about improved public transportation and economic development.

We are now 90%

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I'm thrilled to report my first big initiative, a pilot program for mobile food venidng, was passed by Council today.  The only person voting against was Leslie Ghiz, and for a moment there in Council, I think she thought I was on the witness stand.

Anyway, you will find the vendors

This was written by Jeremy Jackson, an NKU intern for Council Member Quinlivan.

Why demolish when we can deconstruct some of the city’s condemned buildings?

Council Member Laure Quinlivan wants

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