Cincinnati Edition Saturday

The Big Idea Challenge

Mark Perzel — Fri, 17 May 2013 05:30:20 +0000

The Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF) is celebrating 50 years of philanthropic service to the community in 2013, and they’ve just kicked off a competition to encourage all residents to share their ideas on how to make Cincinnati an even better place to live and work. Aptly titled The Big Idea Challenge, anyone can go online and share their community-changing idea in one of seven categories. As Beth Benson, the vice-president of communications and marketing for GCF explains to Mark Perzel, there are not only cash prizes for winning submissions, but the top idea in each category (selected by a community vote) will receive $5000 and technical support to kick-start the idea, and the overall top idea will receive $50,000 from the GCF board members to bring that idea to fruition.

"The Girls of Atomic City"

Mark Perzel — Fri, 17 May 2013 05:30:15 +0000

Just off I-40, west of Knoxville, Tennessee, drivers note the exit signs for Oak Ridge and, probably, think very little of it. But this one-time secret city, a Manhattan Project site, employed thousands of small-town southern women during World War II to work on the atomic bomb. A new book, The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II, shares interviews and personal stories of some of these women in a fascinating tale of secrecy, first-time independence, even romance. Author Denise Kiernan joins Mark Perzel to talk about these extraordinary women from an extraordinary time.

75 years of the Sharon Woods Golf Course

Betsy Ross — Fri, 17 May 2013 05:30:10 +0000

Sharon Woods Golf Course, part of the Hamilton County Park District, will be celebrating its 75^th anniversary starting on Monday, May 27. Tom Bach, the course’s PGA professional, is in The Front Row with Betsy Ross to discuss the long history of the course, some of the special events happening during the anniversary week, and a fun bit of trivia as to which legendary golfer took the ceremonial first tee shot when the course opened.

Matt McCormick from Bahl & Gaynor

Chris DeSimio — Fri, 17 May 2013 05:30:05 +0000

Bahl & Gaynor’s Matt McCormick is On the Money with Chris DeSimio to take a mid-month look at news from Wall Street.

The Week in Review

Jay Hanselman — Fri, 17 May 2013 05:30:00 +0000

The Week in Review with Jay Hanselman.