GOODS & SERVICES READER PICKS

Best Local Activist
Citizens to Restore Fairness

Best Local Elected Official
(Tie) Cincinnati City Councilmen David Pepper and Jim Tarbell

Best Local Hero
Matt Maupin

	Jerry Springer

Best Scandal
Then-Hamilton County Prosecutor Mike Allen’s affair

Best Firehouse/ Firefighters
Cincinnati Fire Dept. Engine 46 (Hyde Park)

Best Friend to the Environ-ment
IMAGO
3208 Warsaw Ave., Price Hill, 513-921-5124

Best Fund-Raising Event
Tsunami Relief Effort of Cincinnati (Jan. 19, 2005)

Best Police Officer
Cincinnati Police Cpt. James Whalen

Best Religious Leader
Rev. Damon Lynch III

Best Journalist
Stephanie Dunlap, CityBeat

Best Newspaper Columnist
Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati Enquirer

Best Radio Station
WNKU-FM

Best Radio DJ
Jeff & Jenn, Q102 (WKRQ-FM)

Best Radio Talk Show Host
Jerry Springer, WCKY-AM

Best TV Newscast
WCPO (Channel 9)

Best TV Anchor
Clyde Gray, WCPO (Channel 9)

Best TV Weathercaster
Pete Delkus, WCPO (Channel 9)

Best TV Sportscaster
Dennis Janson, WCPO (Channel 9)

Best Web Site
citybeat.com

Best Blog
cincinnati.blogspot.com

TICKER: First-time winners: Citizens to Restore Fairness, David Pepper, Matt Maupin, IMAGO, Cpt. James Whalen, Stephanie Dunlap, Jeff & Jen, Jerry Springer, Pete Delkus and cincinnati.blogspot.com … Perennial winners: Channel 9 newscast (four years in row); Dennis Janson (five years); Clyde Gray (six years); and Paul Daugherty (has won all nine years of Best of Cincinnati — he won Best Sportswriter the past eight years and again when that category was folded into Best Newspaper Columnist this year) … Streaks broken: the Sierra Club’s Glen Brand, who recently moved out of the area, had won Best Friend to the Environment twice in the past three years; 97X WOXY-FM, now strictly a Web-based station, had won Best Radio Station three years in row; WEBN-FM’s Eddie Fingers had won Best Radio DJ four years in row; and WLW-AM’s Mike McConnell had won Best Radio Talk Show Host four years in row.