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COVINGTON — The region’s smoking opponents lost a battle last year when Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties decided not to impose indoor smoking bans for restaurants and other businesses. But the Northern Kentucky Health Department is trying to clear the smoke from other areas, including Covington’s public housing projects and the city’s swimming pools. Full Story>>>>

by Mike Rutledge (Cincinnati Enquirer) COVINGTON - Apartments that will replace the Jacob Price public housing projects in Covington's Eastside neighborhood will be so attractive that even people who won't need public assistance will want to live in them, city officials believe. And people who aren't poor will, in fact, be allowed - and invited - to rent some of them. Full Story >>  

by Mike Rutledge (Cincinnati Enquirer) COVINGTON - A little more than a month after the last two families moved out of the Jacob Price public housing projects, a demolition company planned to start knocking down the complex's final three buildings Thursday. "On Sept. 9 the last two families moved out of Jacob Price homes, and really, that closed the chapter on a development that's been a fixture in Covington since 1939," said the Housing Authority of Covington's executive director, Aaron...

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 by Cindy Schroeder (Cincinnati Enquirer) COVINGTON - It's been about 10 years since Steve Wilson suffered a traumatic brain injury that ultimately cost him his job, his marriage and his home. As recently as May, the 57-year-old Clermont County native was living in his car. But thanks to help Wilson received from his counselors at employment assistance group Bawac and the Emergency Shelter of Northern Kentucky, he's now working full-time and living in an apartment at Academy Flats,...

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