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  Qualls Bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Roxanne Qualls is a Visiting Professor at Northern Kentucky University where she teaches in the Master in Public Administration program and is assisting NKU to start a public policy institute.
Roxanne Qualls served three terms as Mayor of the City of Cincinnati from 1993 to 1999.
Qualls served as a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University in 2000 and as a Loeb Fellow at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University in 2001.
homepage.mac.com /wiredforsound/ExpandingCircle/QuallsBio.html   (381 words)

  
 CityBeat: Roxanne Isn't Done (2002-01-03)
Qualls, who spent eight years on city council, including six as mayor, left in late 1999 to lecture at a seminar on politics at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Qualls considers politics a closed chapter in her adult life, which began by studying history at Thomas Moore College and studying planning and urban design at the University of Cincinnati.
Qualls breaks the problem into three parts: an inability to talk constructively about race relations, an inability to face the history of racism in the Tristate and an inability to come up with meaningful solutions.
www.citybeat.com /2002-01-03/news.shtml   (1191 words)

  
 NKY.Com - Qualls a real class act   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Qualls, 53, single and living in a downtown condo, was a Cincinnati councilwoman from 1991 to '93, then mayor from '93 to 1999.
Roxanne Qualls is director of the Public Leadership Initiatives at Northern Kentucky University.
For Roxanne Qualls - shown here in 1998 - the most complicated and satisfying project she dealt with during her two-term tenure as mayor was the restructuring of Fort Washington Way downtown.
news.nky.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/ab/20060810/LIFE03/608100307   (1208 words)

  
 Institute of Politics Announces Fellows for Spring 2000
Roxanne Qualls, the first popularly elected mayor of Cincinnati, was first elected mayor in 1993 and served three terms until term limits forced her retirement in 1999.
Qualls also focused her efforts on maintaining the city as the vital core of the region by redeveloping the city’s riverfront using two new sports facilities as the anchors.
Qualls began her career as the director of the Northern Kentucky Rape Crisis Center and left that position to become executive director of Women Helping Women.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2000/02.03/iop.html   (1099 words)

  
 Loeb Fellowship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Roxanne Qualls served as mayor of the City of Cincinnati from 1993-99.
In addition, she initiated the city’s leadership in the planning and financing of an expanded public transportation system whose initial efforts are focused on a 33-mile light-rail corridor.
Prior to being elected mayor, Roxanne served as director of the Cincinnati Office of Ohio Citizen Action, a membership-based environmental and consumer organization.
www.gsd.harvard.edu /professional/loeb_fellowship/alumni/class_2001/qualls.html   (317 words)

  
 Road to top didn't change Qualls' direction
Qualls came to Cincinnati City Council in 1991, she was building what eventually grew into a powerful political force -- one that began with feminists, gay-rights activists, political liberals and grew to include environmentalists and neighborhood leaders from throughout the city.
Qualls, throughout her political career, has had the support of feminist organizations that support abortion rights.
Qualls has said she would only vote for a partial-birth abortion ban if it contained exceptions for both the life and the "health" of the mother.
www.enquirer.com /editions/1998/10/26/loc_qualls26.html   (1417 words)

  
 Rainbow Cincinnati News - Qualls / Chabot Debate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
CINCINNATI- When Ohio First District Congressional candidate Roxanne Qualls (D) and incumbent Steve Chabot (R) faced off in the crucial campiagn's only broadcast debate Oct.22, the first question from the WVXU FM studio audience was about hate crimes protection, thanks to written questions from openly-gay reporters.
Cincinnati Mayor Qualls called on Chabot and other lawmakers to "enact strong anti-hate crimes legislation at the federal and local level" in the wake of the horrific execution of Wyoming student Matthew Sheppard.
Qualls was otherwise brilliant and well-prepared in the wide-ranging discussion which covered light-rail options to traffic grid-lock, human rights in China, HMO reform, the federal budget, drugs, and saving public schools.
www.gaycincinnati.com /news/newzdebate.htm   (227 words)

  
 Ten Tight Races That Could Shape Our Future - September/October 1998 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club
In a year when both parties are complaining about their ability to recruit quality candidates, Ohio Democrats are crowing about their coup in persuading three-term Cincinnati Mayor Roxanne Qualls to run against incumbent Representative Steve Chabot.
Qualls, on the other hand, has had a glowing record on the Cincinnati council, fighting toxics and urban sprawl, and championing light rail.
Qualls' vision extends beyond her own city limits: last fall she tried to get the council to pass a resolution supporting the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change.
www.sierraclub.org /sierra/199809/qualls.asp   (328 words)

  
 Democrats Have A Shot In Ohio's Competitive 1st C.D. - June 23, 1998
That's because their candidate, city councilwoman Roxanne Qualls, is one of the most upbeat, articulate and poised challengers they have recruited in this incumbent-friendly political year.
Qualls' recent decision to present a "key to the city" to AFL-CIO chief John Sweeney shows that it won't be easy for the mayor to avoid national issues.
Chabot doesn't have charisma, but he is a hard campaigner and has decided to go after the challenger rather than sit back and wait for her to initiate the terms of the campaign's agenda.
www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1998/06/23/rothenberg/index.html   (917 words)

  
 Cincinnati Bengals - Stadium - July 4, 1996
Cincinnati Mayor Roxanne Qualls accused Hamilton County commissioners Thursday of giving away Cincinnati's riverfront to the Bengals in the county's stadium deal with the team.
Qualls charges the county with granting the Bengals "veto power" over all riverfront development between the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge and the team's new stadium.
Qualls' letter is the latest in a series of disputes the city and county have had over the stadium project.
bengals.enquirer.com /070497_bengstadium.html   (911 words)

  
 St. Catherine Review: Pro-Abort Supporters
The Catholic Church recognizes that what abortion proponents, such as Mayor Roxanne Qualls, consider to be the "right to choose," is actually a flagrant violation of human rights.
The brutal torture and murder of defenseless babies sanctioned by the U.S. government is not beyond criticism by a bishop of the Catholic Church.
Earlier this year, across the river from Cincinnati, in the Diocese of Covington KY, Mayor Qualls was invited (out of her home state) to deliver the commencement speech at Notre Dame Academy.
www.aquinas-multimedia.com /catherine/pilarczyk.html   (466 words)

  
 PULFER: Roxanne Qualls
Roxanne Qualls finished school last week, but she's not coming back home.
Roxanne Qualls was mayor from 1993 to 1999.
During her years at Harvard, Roxanne Qualls' fellow students included a former HUD chief of staff, the former mayor of Raleigh, N.C., a Los Angeles Times columnist who created a race-relations beat, the first woman elected premier of Bermuda.
www.enquirer.com /editions/2002/06/09/loc_pulfer_roxanne.html   (500 words)

  
 Roxanne Qualls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roxanne Qualls is an American politician of the Democratic party who served as Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1993 to 1999.
As mayor, she was a prominent supporter of Cincinnati's switch to a strong mayor system of government.
In 1998, Qualls unsuccessfully ran for the United States House of Representatives against Congressman Steve Chabot.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roxanne_Qualls   (120 words)

  
 Citybeat - Cover   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
She says she expects the planning to go smoothly because the city and county now are starting to work together on riverfront projects.
Qualls says she anticipates most of the planning to be completed before she leaves office.
Qualls says she is optimistic about her last year on council and as mayor of the city.
www.citybeat.com /archives/1999/issue507/coverarticle6.html   (294 words)

  
 kyreds06
Qualls said she believes Ron Roberts, an adviser to Reds' owner Marge Schott, has been going to Northern Kentucky to create the illusion that something's happening there.
Qualls and Krings said that Hamilton County already has the money coming in from a sales tax increase to build a new $250 million stadium for the Reds.
Qualls, ''$250 million, when it comes to the stadium, is just a starting point.''
www.kypost.com /news/1997/kyreds060297.html   (505 words)

  
 CNU: Board of Directors: Roxanne Qualls   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Roxanne Qualls was elected mayor of Cincinatti and served three terms until termed out in 1999.
One of her major intiatives as mayor targeted slum landlords, illegal dumping, and trash; the program was recognized by the U.S. Conference of Mayorsยน Best Practices guide.
She is now a fellow at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
www.cnu.org /aboutcnu/board_member_rqualls.cfm   (91 words)

  
 Mallory gets Qualls' support
State Sen. Mark Mallory stands with Cincinnati Mayor Roxanne Qualls after she introduced him Tuesday at the Carnegie Center in Columbia Tusculum, where he announced that he would run for mayor of Cincinnati.
State Sen. Mark Mallory promised to campaign neighborhood to neighborhood "to move Cincinnati in a new direction," as he became the first candidate to formally announce his plans to run for mayor in 2005.
Her support for Mallory isn't completely surprising - she and the Lukens have been rivals since former Rep. Thomas A. Luken, Charlie's father, served his encore term on City Council from 1993 to 1995.
www.cincinnati.com /text/local/2004/07/21/loc_mallory21.html   (1343 words)

  
 AIArchitect, Nov. 25, 2002 - Mayors Join Designers to Create Livable Communities
The La Jolla event opened with a dinner at the prestigious Salk Institute and a keynote address by former Cincinnati Mayor Roxanne Qualls, who spoke about how her experience at the Mayors' Institute in 1996 supported her efforts to redevelop Cincinnati's waterfront.
At that time, she said, Cincinnati's busy highway disconnected the city's downtown from its waterfront, which was characterized by a patchwork of parking lots and obsolete stadiums.
During her four-year tenure, Mayor Qualls oversaw more than $1.3 billion in public investment that transformed the waterfront with two new sports stadiums, underground parking, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, and a freeway redesign that has reconnected the street grid and made the area accessible to pedestrians.
www.aia.org /aiarchitect/thisweek02/tw1122/1122tw1micd.htm   (648 words)

  
 USCM | Urban Litter Partnership
During the Mayor's first 16 months in office, many of the 2,000 constituency cases handled by her staff involved poor conditions in and around buildings, trash and weed-filled vacant lots, junk cars, and graffiti.
Believing that blight in neighborhoods degrades a community, invites crime, and discourages economic development, Mayor Qualls initiated a program that coordinates City departments and neighborhood organizations to respond to these pressing problems.
It was decided that one warning be given to property owners before a ticket is issued.
www.usmayors.org /uscm/best_practices/litter/cincinnati.html   (1602 words)

  
 Reds - The Enquirer - March 5, 1997
Mayor Roxanne Qualls declared herself in favor of Broadway Commons for baseball Tuesday at the kickoff fund-raiser for her re-election campaign.
Qualls vowed to try to persuade Hamilton County commissioners, who have the final say over stadium placement.
She explained her reasoning in a later interview.
reds.enquirer.com /030597_redsstadium.html   (465 words)

  
 Alumni news -- Ohio Citizen Action
Nov 3, 2003: Roxanne Qualls set to teach at Northern Kentucky University
DAYTON -- "Former Cincinnati Mayor Roxanne Qualls will return to the region after several years in Boston to teach a master's program in public administration, and design courses aimed at helping elected officials.
The 50-year-old Qualls was first elected to Cincinnati City Council in 1991 and served as mayor from 1993 to 1999.
www.ohiocitizen.org /about/alumni/alumni_news2003.html   (319 words)

  
 Mayor Qualls fuming over letter furor - Cincinnati Business Courier:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
It's been a tumultuous July for Cincinnati Mayor Roxanne Qualls.
The month started with a July 3 letter in which she blasted Hamilton Coun-ty's lease with the Cincinnati Ben-gals, alleging the county ceded too much riverfront development control to the football team.
Councilman Dwight Tillery, hoping to wrest the mayor's office from Qualls in November, chastised Qualls and complained the stadium debate had grown too political.
www.bizjournals.com /cincinnati/stories/1997/07/14/story5.html   (583 words)

  
 CitiRama III gets approval from Cincinnati City Council   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
City money will be used for infrastructure, such as roads and sewers.
The CitiRama concept surfaced in 1996 as a partnership between Cincinnati and the Home Builders Association of Greater Cincinnati to benefit the city's homeownership rate as well as encourage new development in the market, said Mayor Roxanne Qualls.
"This is all about showing home builders that the city is a hassle-free place to construct housing for middle-income--with homes ranging from $90,000 to $225,000," Qualls said.
www.ohiorealtors.org /news/ohiorealtor/1999/jan/st07.html   (550 words)

  
 Gifts of Speech - Roxanne Qualls
I also want to take a moment and recognize my family.
My mother, Kathryn Qualls and my sister, Donna Gerding.
I wanted my nephew to join me today.
gos.sbc.edu /q/qualls.html   (1532 words)

  
 AroundCinci - Entertainment > Events
Sunday Salon: "The Making of an American (Woman) President: What will it Take?" with Roxanne Qualls, former mayor of Cincinnati
Drawing from her years spent in politics and civil service, former Cincinnati Mayor Roxanne Qualls will share her perspective on gender and politics, and her predictions for what the future holds.
Enjoy what is sure to be a lively and topical afternoon over delicious lunch in the gourmet kitchen of Tom and Molly Tami’s Hyde Park home.
www.aroundcinci.com /entertainment/events/event.asp?event=9108   (111 words)

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