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School, County Levies Pass Easily

91.7 WVXU | By Howard Wilkinson

Published November 6, 2019 at 5:41 AM EST

Tuesday was a good day for tax renewal ballot issues in Hamilton County.

A $65 million, 10-year renewal of an operating levy for Cincinnati Public Schools was headed toward an easy win in Tuesday's voting. With 34% of the school district's 232 precincts reporting, the school levy was passing with 73% of the unofficial vote count.

There were two other countywide tax levies on Tuesday's ballot that will not raise taxes. One was a renewal for Hamilton County's Family Services, which had 72% of the vote, and a second for services for the developmentally disabled, which had 76% of the vote.

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Howard Wilkinson

Howard Wilkinson joined the WVXU News Team after 30 years of covering local and state politics for The Cincinnati Enquirer. A native of Dayton, Ohio, Wilkinson has covered every Ohio governor’s race since 1974 as well as 12 presidential nominating conventions. His streak continued by covering both the 2012 Republican and Democratic conventions for 91.7 WVXU. Along with politics, Wilkinson also covered the 2001 Cincinnati race riots; the Lucasville Prison riot in 1993; the Air Canada plane crash at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in 1983; and the 1997 Ohio River flooding. The Cincinnati Reds are his passion. "I've been listening to WVXU and public radio for many years, and I couldn't be more pleased at the opportunity to be part of it,” he says.

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