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🌱 Man Shot, Killed In West End + Cincy On America's 100 Best Cities
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Hello there, Cincinnati! I'm here in your inbox this morning to get you up to speed on everything you need to know about what's going on in town. Let's dive in.
First, today's weather:
A t-storm around in the p.m.. High: 92 Low: 70.
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Here are the top three stories in Cincinnati today:
- A man in his 60s was shot to death behind a business near the intersection of Linn Street and Dayton Street in the West End yesterday, Jun. 30, according to Cincinnati police. A witness told homicide detectives on the scene that they saw a person leave and head toward a building on Dayton Street. SWAT was called and stood outside the home for several hours while calling for the people inside to come out. (WCPO 9 Cincinnati)
- Cincinnati came in at #56 on bestcities.org's list of "America's 100 Best Cities 2022." The list is "a ranking of the Best American Cities with metro populations of 500,000 people or more," said the website. Best Cities stated, "Cincinnati has simmered with urban vibrancy for a few years now, but as second-tier cities are finding their mojo, Cincy is ready to serve." (WKRC TV Cincinnati)
- The University of Cincinnati is launching two programs focused on cryptocurrency and new financial technologies thanks to gifts from Dan Kautz and Woodrow (Woody) Uible. The gifts will create an educational program through the Carl H. Lindner College of Business, including a cryptocurrency fund that will promote student learning of blockchain technology and digital assets and a public-private Kautz-Uible Cryptoeconomics Lab, which will open this fall. Marianne Lewis, PhD, Lindner dean and professor of management, said "I think one of the beauties of us building coursework, as well as this lab around it, is to learn as that volatility shifts, [we] start to better understand where that value is in terms of securing assets, trading assets." (University of Cincinnati)
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Today in Cincinnati:
- Playhouse In The Park - Black Box Performance Event At Black Box Theater (1:00 PM)
- RiverFest At Cincy At Schmidlapp Event Lawn (6:00 PM)
- Family First Friday - Movie Night At Gamble-Nippert Branch YMCA (6:30 PM)
From my notebook:
- Come meet Coco, Karma, Smores, and many more of the pets waiting to be fostered or adopted at Cincinnati area animal shelters. View their pictures, read their write-ups, and then click on the link to learn more about how you can make a difference in their lives. (Cincinnati Patch)
- Death Cab for Cutie will kick off its North American tour in Cincinnati on Jul. 7 at PromoWest Pavilion at Ovation at 6:00 p.m. The band's 10th studio album, Asphalt Meadows, will be released on Sept. 16. (City Beat)
- Rebel Mettle Brewery, the downtown craft brewery and taproom, closed its doors on Jun. 25, only two years after it opened. A bartender at the establishment confirmed that the Central Avenue watering hole was closing and that there are no plans to move or reopen the business elsewhere. (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
That's it for today. I'll catch up with you bright and early tomorrow morning with another update!
— Carla Varner
