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Republican Club rallies, searches for votes BENJAMIN GOLDSCHMIDT | CHIEF REPORTER The Northeast Hamilton County Republicans Club hosted a rally at the Sharonville Convention Center Saturday to talk about the importance of campaigning to undecided voters in the election. “The world’s media recognizes Ohio as key to the presidential election, and Hamilton County will play a vital role in Ohio’s electoral vote,” said Judy Wells, president of the Hamilton County Republicans Club. Approximately 200 people attended the rally, including 31 elected officials, ranging from senators to county judges. Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) served as the keynote speaker. “Please, talk to everyone you know, talk to the independent voters,” Ayotte said. “Ask them, if they voted for Barack Obama last time, okay, what makes you think that the next four years are going to be different from the last.” Ayotte described America’s economic growth under Barack Obama as “anemic,” and said “the best way we could do better is to have new leadership in the White House.” While most speakers claimed Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan had a “clear plan” for America, much of their reasoning behind supporting the Romney Ryan
ticket revolved around criticism of Obama. “[Romney] is a guy who can really do things, that can get our country turned around again,” said Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio).“Barack Obama has not done that, and in fact, because of Ba-rack, far too many people in this country are ba-roke.” Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) talked about the difference that reaching out to undecided and independent voters in suburban Chicago made in 2008. Roskam said Obama had a seven-point lead in the 2008 election in his district, but is now down 10 points. “Where we go from here, is that this group here — this group has to be contagious,” Roskam said. “We [got to] go out to the independent voters and say, come on home.” After the push to be more active in the election process, some of the attendees said they plan to do more, while many of the attendees said they have already been campaigning. “[Today’s rally] inspired me to keep on doing what I’ve been doing — not so much making phone calls but more talking to the community, church, work,” said Jenny Jeffery of Harrison. “I think the independent voters that I’ve been talking to are more leaning toward the Republican ticket — I think they’re frustrated.”
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SHARONVILLE RALLY The Northeast Hamilton County Republicans Club gathered at the Sharonville Convention Center Saturday to urge supporters to get more involved in Republican election efforts. Prominent Republican leaders like Sen. Kelly Ayotte spoke to supporters at the event.
Researchers awarded $2.7 million
UC to study differences in generic, name brand drugs JAKE GRIECO | CONTRIBUTOR
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BUILDING FOR FUTURE Dan Schimberg across from his development, Views On Vine, in the Short Vine Business District in Clifton.
REBUILDING SHORT VINE
After decades of ‘crime and plight’ future is bright JASON M. HOFFMAN | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Dan Schimberg might never be credited with saving Clifton from a pit of economic despair, but history might be well served to take note of how one of Cincinnati’s sons has made it his business to restore the Short Vine Business District to prominence. Schimberg, graduate of the University of Cincinnati and sole proprietor of Uptown Rental Properties, is in the middle of reinvigorating the Short Vine Business District from ghost town to once again thriving entertainment epicenter of Clifton. He remembers the days when Short Vine was the home of good times in Clifton — something the area hasn’t seen in more than 20 years. So Schimberg set about collecting real estate around the area. His business went from a few homes he rented to students, to its current cache of more than 200 properties in the area. The vision for the Short Vine district had its genesis more than a decade ago, thanks to the assembly of the Uptown Consortium — a conglomerate of the largest businesses in Uptown. The consortium consists of UC, UC Health, Children’s Hospital, TriHealth and the Cincinnati Zoo. Beth Robinson, president and CEO of Uptown Consortium, said Schimberg has been vital to the consortium gaining ground with its goal of rejuvenating Short Vine. “Dan has long been a champion of revitalizing Short Vine,” Robinson said. Robinson understands the importance of the Short Vine district to the UC community, given her tenure spent at the helm of UC’s real estate development. The degradation of the Short Vine district took place approximately 30 years ago, Schimberg said. “Essentially, the downfall of Short Vine in the late ’80s all started with some desperate landlords allowing some tenants in there that really brought some tough elements up to the area,” Schimberg said. “And it became an area that drove out a lot of the good restaurants, a lot of the retailers that were appealing to student body and the university and it brought in an element that basically made students afraid to go there.”
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Short Vine as a business district became less than ideal, leading Schimberg and other to come together in search of a way to renew the once-thriving district back to prominence. “We have a vision that came out of a 2005 Urban renewal Plan process with major stakeholders and UC that really provided a roadmap to success,” Schimberg said. “Frankly we’re using that plan when we go the city, the urban renewal council and the university and we say ‘look, this is what everyone asked for — this is what everyone wanted.” And part of that plan was to move 1,500 people up to Short Vine, Schimberg said. The goal of having residents on the streets is the driving force behind the design of the units along Short Vine. Each unit has either balconies facing the street, patios or decks offering occupants a view of the business district, the university or other parts of Clifton, Schimberg said. All of these efforts aim to get traffic, both pedestrians and automotive back into the district. But you don’t solve long-standing problems like the one facing the Short Vine business district by simply adding some new apartments and making a superficial change, Schimberg said. Schimberg said the newest additions to the Uptown Properties fold would appeal, he hopes, to more than just undergraduate students. “We are trying to build a broad base of products that appeal to all types of people who either need to or want to live near the university,” he said. “And we’re finding a lot of success — we are at 100-percent capacity.” Additionally, inquiries are in place for next year, and projections are Uptown Properties will be able to maintain a 50-percent retention rate in its units, Schimberg said. With the development of Views on Vine on track for completion, Short Vine will soon be filled with more residents, but that is only part of the revitalization equation. “A lot of our most recent work was actually not on SV, because if you do all of this work and it’s only skin deep, it doesn’t do any good — it doesn’t accomplish anything,” Schimberg said.
The Food and Drug Administration awarded the University of Cincinnati a $2.7 million grant to conduct a study on drugs that restrict activity in the immune system. The study aims to end questions concerning the differences between generic and brand-name versions of tacrolimus, common immunosuppressive drugs, used to help post-transplant patients accept their new organs. “The public concern [with tacrolimus] is that the generic drugs are inferior to the brandname drugs,”said Dr. Rita Alloway, UC professor of medicine and director of transplant clinical research who will be leading the study. “[The study will] look at all the approved generics and based on healthy patient trials and how quickly it dissolves. We then compare them to the brand name under the assumption that if the highest and lowest generic compare to the brand name then all generics will.” Alloway will collaborate with Uwe Christians, a professor of anesthesiology at the University of Colorado, and Sander Vinks, a UC professor of pediatrics and director of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Many UC medical departments will collaborate with the University of Colorado. “At the University of Cincinnati we’ve always been highly recognized as a leader in transplant research,” Alloway said. Alloway and partners will travel to Washington, DC Monday to present the grant at a meeting to the FDA, the American Society of Transplantation and American Society of Transplant Surgeons.
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