An income tax increase may not be on the Cincinnati ballot this year after all.
In January, Mayor Aftab Pureval announced plans to ask voters for an increase in 2026. Pureval says a lot has changed since then.
“I wasn’t anticipating in January, that we would engage in this reckless war in Iran, which is having a really negative impact on our energy costs but also downstream on our food costs,” Pureval told WVXU. “It’s a tough economic situation, with rising energy costs, with mortgage rates going up, with interest rates staying high. That’s a heavy burden for our residents.”…