Yesterday my wife received visitors at our door indicating they were with Insight and were there to make an unscheduled visit to check our service. As you may have guessed this raised some red flags with my wife who asked for credentials before letting them in our home. Once in the house the visit seemed […]
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Fort Thomas Election Preview – Part 1
Over the past couple months I have made a few posts on the upcoming election with a primary focus on county races. This is largely because frankly that is where the action is this election cycle. Some of the races are hotly contested, there are important issues at stake, some candidates are vulnerable, and there […]
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Fort Thomas News – Week of August 30th
My day job has kept me busy the last couple weeks but a few random observations over the past couple weeks: Progress at the Newport Pavilion continues to roll along with the roof of Target nearly completed. I missed this little piece about a month ago from Scott Wertman but there were a couple nuggets […]
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Fort Thomas News – Week of August 9th
There are a few items of note for Fort Thomas that may not require their own posts but should be mentioned so here we go…. 1. Hearing on Noise Ordinance on Wednesday – I know I mentioned this last week but Council has determined to hear the ordinance in Committee on 6:15 on Wednesday the 11th […]
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Fort Thomas Trash Pickers & Craigslist Gold
Tonight I watched a team of 3 men descend upon my neighbor’s trash pile. Three prospectors panning for gold on the curb. They plucked a table, what must certainly be a broken grill, and any number of other things. Who needs Freecycle when you have the legacy that is the night before Fort Thomas trash […]
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Impact of Vacant Properties on Fort Thomas
The past two years has seen a plethora of headlines discussing the housing crisis and its impacts on local communities across the country. While this hasn’t been a major issue for Fort Thomas it is one that has created some problems in isolated cases across our community. A recent search of the Realty Trac database […]
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New Candy Store Opening in Fort Thomas
A new candy store is opening in Fort Thomas in the vacated space left behind by the Tracy Davis agency who recently moved next to the 915. The store will be called the Candy Cottage and current plans are for an opening on August 7th. The owners were in over the weekend and even put […]
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Fort Thomas Moving up the Cincy Magazine Rankings
I mentioned the “Rating the Burbs” issue of Cincy Magazine from last year and how disappointed I was by Fort Thomas falling outside the Top 20. The magazine just released their latest issue and in a major reversal Fort Thomas is now ranked 8th ahead of Montgomery, Blue Ash, Mariemont, and Mason. Beyond the surprising […]
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A Retailing Theme & Recruiting Succssful Businsses
I have been critical in the past of the cities efforts to create lasting, sustainable retail districts in Fort Thomas. I want to offer a little praise today and some encouragement on the two missing ingredients that can get Fort Thomas over the hump. Nearly a year ago to the day I wrote an article […]
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Traditional Media is Dead – Follow Fort Thomas Matters
I found this quote from a recent Motley Fool article about investing in traditional media: “The drill of chasing the week’s news to add a couple of hard-fought new details is not sustainable,” Meacham said when unveiling Newsweek‘s new strategy last year. He was right. Unfortunately, neither was the new model. And that’s a shame. […]