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Article: REGIONAL COOPERATION ELUSIVE.(NEWS)
- Article from:
- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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Byline: Post staff report
Regional cooperation is much heralded but often upstaged by regional competition when put into practice.
That's what many political and business officials are saying after learning that the Great Inland Seafood Festival, which was a mainstay on the Cincinnati riverfront for 14 years, has moved to Newport's Riverboat Row.
''But the seafood festival is the least of it,'' former Cincinnati Mayor Arn Bortz says of the difficulty of making regionalism work in Greater Cincinnati.
''Unless we begin to work together on major issues like light rail, land-use planning, the future of the airport and air quality, there ...