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🌱 City To Cover Worker's Abortion Travel Costs + Award For Sculpture
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Good morning, everybody! It's me, Carla Varner, your host of the Cincinnati Daily. Here's all the local news you need to know right now.
First, today's weather:
Mostly sunny and nice. High: 80 Low: 54.
Here are the top three stories in Cincinnati today:
- Cincinnati leaders plan to reimburse city workers for the cost of traveling to get an abortion and help make abortion more accessible. Hours after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, Ohio's six-week abortion ban took effect. "This is about helping to make sure our city employees have access to any eligible medical care that isn't available here, regardless of future statewide laws," said Mayor Aftab Pureval Pureval. (WVXU)
- Kroger, headquartered in Cincinnati, is one of the dozens of major U.S. companies now offering assistance for travel to get an abortion. Three hundred of Kroger's 2,750 retail stores are located in Ohio and Kentucky, where abortion is now either banned or mostly banned. Late last week, following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Kroger announced it will help employees pay up to $4,000 for out-of-state travel if abortion is needed. (WCPO 9 Cincinnati)
- Cincinnati Councilmember Jeff Cramerding is proposing a reward of $50,000 for the return of the historic bronze sculpture, The Capitoline Wolf, that was stolen from Eden Park on Jun. 16. The sculpture is a depiction of the infants Romulus and Remus with a mother wolf and is a replica of the ancient Etruscan statue on the Capitoline Hill in Rome. Rome gave the sculpture as a gift to Cincinnati in 1931, said city officials. (FOX19)
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Today in Cincinnati:
- Nina West At Aronoff Center for the Arts (7:30 PM)
- Miami University Steel Band At Blue Ash Nature Park (7:00 PM)
- Artist Talk with Tina Gutierrez At Kennedy Heights Arts Center (5:30 PM)
From my notebook:
- See which companies are hiring in the Cincinnati area. Scroll through the latest job postings and view position descriptions, salary, and location. Then click on the link to apply. (Cincinnati Patch)
- Catch Hairspray at the Arononff Center for the Arts on Thursday, Jun. 20 at 7:30 p.m. The Tony Award-Winning best musical is back, so don't miss out. (Google)
- Hillsong United is coming to The ICON Festival Stage on Monday, Aug. 1 at 7:00 p.m. The group will be one of five Christian artists playing at the festival. (Google)
Thanks for following along and staying informed! I'll be back in your inbox tomorrow with a new update.
— Carla Varner
