Local bakery Klosterman's has introduced vitamin D-fortified bread. The company is known for innovations like sliced bread and plastic-wrapped buns. Cincinnati schools maintained a mid-level rating but most scores dipped slightly due to a new rule limiting how special education tests could be counted. The prosecutor may have to lay off prosecutors if county budget cuts go through as proposed.

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HAMILTON CO.
Deters warns
of possible layoffs
Hamilton County Prosecu-
tor Joe Deters said Tues-
day he will have to lay off
at least 20 of his 120 prose-
cutors next year if budget
cuts proposed by the coun-
ty administration go for-
ward. “We will literally
have to decide what cate-
gory of crime we wouldn’t
prosecute,” said Deters.
He met with Hamilton
County Commissioner
Todd Portune and Sheriff
Simon Leis on Tuesday to
discuss ways to avoid cut-
ting critical public safety
services. Portune said un-
less a new revenue source
can be found there will be
a “noticeable change” in
public safety next year.
Commissioners have so
far opposed raising taxes.
The proposed general
fund budget is $209 mil-
lion – the tightest since
the late 1990s. Read more
on the Politics Extra blog
on Cincinnati.Com.
CINCINNATI
Layoffs will shift
unit detectives
If 138 Cincinnati police offi-
cers are laid off Sept. 6 as
expected, officials plan to
remove 42 detectives from
the unit that handles homi-
cides, personal crimes,
DARE and drug investiga-
tions. Chief Tom Streicher
said Tuesday he has little
choice but to reposition
some more veteran offi-
cers to replace the newer
ones being laid off Sept. 6.
“Some of these guys prob-
ably haven’t been in a
(cruiser) with all the cur-
rent equipment in it,” he
said. He expects to set up
some retraining. Twenty-
five sergeants also will be
demoted, taking 16
percent pay cuts if they’re
demoted back to police of-
ficer.
SCHOOLS
Youth forum with
CPS candidates
Community youth will
have an opportunity to
question leaders of Cincin-
nati Public Schools and
candidates for school
board at an event on Satur-
day. The Avondale Youth
Council has invited every
CPS principal, as well as
current board members
and candidates in Novem-
ber’s elections, to a two-
hour forum for children
and their families. Orga-
nizers request an RSVP by
Wednesday to either avon-
dalecouncil5@aol.com or
513-281-5999, but walk-up
attendance is permitted.
The forum will begin 10
a.m. Saturday at the
MERC Auditorium, 620
Oak St.
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Cincinnati Public Schools
retained its mid-level “contin-
uous improvement” status for
the fifth straight year on
Ohio’s local report cards re-
leased Tuesday, but scores
dipped slightly in most cor-
ners of the district.
After seeing incremental
gains last year, the district
took a step backward in 2008-
09, according to most mea-
surements that make up the
complex report cards. A new
rule this year strictly limited
how special tests for severely
disabled students count in the
aggregate scores, which offi-
cials blamed for the losses.
Throughout Greater Cin-
cinnati, school districts told a
tale Tuesday of either holding
steady or slight gains, with
West Clermont and Little Mi-
ami celebrating important
milestones and perennially
top-rated systems such as La-
kota again notching high
scores.
Cincinnati Public met six
out of 30 indicators, down
from nine last year. Each indi-
cator measures a particular
grade level’s passing rate on
various subject tests.
Schools could no longer
count alternative assessments
for more than 1 percent of stu-
dents, regardless of how
many qualify. CPS says 3.8
percent of its students qualify
under government standards.
“The 1 percent cap on alter-
native assessments did have a
slight negative impact on our
district, and I’m sure districts
m SCHOOL REPORT CARDS
CPS maintains middle ratingBy Ben Fischer
bfischer@enquirer.com
Full page
of scores
Check out the report cards for
all area school districts. B3
Also: Steep drop in scores at
Lebanon Schools surprises
residents, but not school offi-
cials. B5
Online: To view results from
around the state, visit
www.reportcard.ohio.gov.See SCHOOLS, Page B5
The Enquirer/Cara Owsley
Devon Heady helps Jaritzi
Gonzalez-Acosta with
phonics at Fairfield Cen-
tral Elementary.
A new flu strain has apparently found its
way onto a third local college campus.
Three students at Miami University are
presumed to have swine flu, officials at the
Oxford campus said Tuesday, a day after the
fall session began.
The students tested positive for a type A
strain of influenza. This time of year, health-
care providers assume any type A is the new
flu strain, said Gail Walenga, assistant vice
president of student health and wellness.
The university has contacted the Butler
County Health Department, she said, and is
following its recommendations.
“We are being told to assume it’s H1N1,”
she said.
The three – two men and a woman – are
undergoing treatment, Walenga said.
Two of the students live off-campus and
one lives on-campus, Walenga said. All have
been told to “self-isolate,” and take other
self-care measures, including Tylenol or Ad-
vil for fever.
On Monday, Xavier University and the
University of Cincinnati each reported two
cases of the new flu strain.
Walenga said no one’s surprised to see
the virus emerging on campuses.
“We’ve anticipated we’re going to see it,’’
she said. “When people come back from all
other parts of the country, they’re going to
bring all kinds of viruses with them. We see
the same thing happen in spring semester
with regular seasonal flu. Everyone comes
back after winter break, and you see the flu
cases start. This is the same thing; it’s just
fall, not spring.”
Also on Tuesday, Northern Kentucky
University posted guidelines on its Web site,
www.nku.edu, on how to handle potential
H1N1 infection. The guidelines remind stu-
dents and staff to wash their hands; practice
respiratory etiquette, including covering
coughs and sneezes; and to stay home if
they’re sick. The Highland Heights universi-
ty has no confirmed cases of H1N1.
Universities across the nation are follow-
ing guidelines set by the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention to prevent
the spread of H1N1.
With the three cases reported Tuesday,
Miami health officials have stepped up their
awareness and education efforts to make
sure students and staff are getting accurate
information about how to avoid the virus,
and how to take care of themselves if they do
catch it, Walenga said.
“We’re really trying to encourage people
to be more protective of themselves, and
make sure they do all the things you tell col-
lege students to do to take care of them-
selves,” Walenga said.
m STUDENTS ‘SELF-ISOLATE’
Miami U.
reports
3 likely
flu cases
By Peggy O’Farrell
pofarrell@enquirer.com
WYOMING – Bishop Carl K.
Moeddel held some of the most
important administrative posi-
tions in the Archdiocese of Cincin-
nati, from the director of priest
personnel to auxiliary bishop.
But family and friends say Bish-
op Moeddel, who died Tuesday at
Mercy Franciscan Terrace after a
long illness, never lost touch with
the people who mattered most to
him.
And that, they say, included just
about everyone he met.
They say he was as comfortable
playing cards or golf with friends
as he was overseeing the religious
work of the Ohio Council of
Churches. He was as at ease with
strangers as he was with family,
and he was the kind of man who
could deliver a thought-provoking
homily in a cathedral or a bowling
alley.
He was Bishop Moeddel to the
community, but he was “Uncle
Bud” to his nieces and nephews.
“Hewasabletoconnectwithev-
erybody,” said his brother-in-law,
Ralph Moeller of Springdale. “He
had a great charisma.”
Those who knew him at the
archdiocese say Bishop Moeddel,
71, parlayed his charisma and in-
telligence into a career that
spanned more than four decades
and several of the biggest jobs
with the church.
He was a longtime parish
priest, director of priest person-
nel, director of pastoral services,
vicar general and president of the
Ohio Council of Churches before
m ARCHBISHOP’S ‘RIGHT-HAND MAN’
Carl K. Moed-
del became
the Cincin-
nati archdio-
cese’s auxil-
iary bishop
in 1993.
Bishop Carl K. Moeddel dead at 71
By Dan Horn
dhorn@enquirer.com
See BISHOP, Page B5
He sticks a thermometer in the scrambled eggs
on the buffet at Findlay’s in the Hyatt: 135 degrees,
as they should be.
His flashlight shines along the baseboards, find-
ing no bugs or animal droppings. He orders a
sneeze guard installed over the oatmeal.
Darius Porter spends many of his days inspect-
ing Cincinnati restaurants. He might also check
out complaints about roaches, rodents, standing
water, neglectful landlords or litter, depending on
the day.
He’s one of 40 city sanitarians who inspect more
than 2,400 food and vending operations – some-
times as much as five or six times a year, depend-
ing on the problems – 550 home sewage systems
and 250 pools.
A 2½-year employee with a chemistry degree,
he narrowly missed being laid off as part of the
city’s cuts to make up for a $28 million budget defi-
cit. But 25 percent of the people in his department
will be let go Sept. 6. They’re among 34 Health De-
partment employees being laid off.
Those jobs will save $440,000 through 2009,
part of $2.3 million in total cuts the Health Depart-
ment made this year.
“Our workload is about to dramatically in-
crease,” Porter says, “That’s for sure.”
That’s true, according to his boss, Dale Grigsby,
supervising sanitarian for the environmental
health/food safety program. And with four of the
six litter-control officers being cut, too, sanitarians
will have to take some of those cases. The litter
folks took more than 10,000 complaints last year.
“If this comes around again,” he said, referring
to budget cuts in 2010, “I don’t think we can take
it. I truly think we’re at our bare-bones level right
now.”
FEWER CHECKERS
The Enquirer/ Joseph Fuqua II
Cincinnati health inspector Darius Porter inspects water damage to the garage ceiling at an apart-
ment building in the 1600 block of Glen Parker Avenue in Northside.
On the cutting block:
city food inspectors
Porter inspects the temperature in a food prep
table at the Queen City Club. A quarter of the
people in his department are due to be let go
Sept. 6.
Check out a restaurant
The city of Cincinnati does not put the results of its
restaurant inspections online.
Hamilton County does. Search those at http://tiny-
url.com/m2geky
By Jane Prendergast
jprendergast@enquirer.com
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