Today's schedule

Candidates for mayor and City Council have a busy day of campaigning in front of them. The schedule:

• At noon, the nonincumbent candidates for Cincinnati City Council address the Community Issues Forum in the undercroft of Christ Church, 318 E. Fourth St., downtown. The event is open to the public.
  
  
• Also at noon, the mayoral candidates are scheduled to appear at the Mount Auburn Group for Improving the Community at Christ Hospital.
  
  
• State Sen. Mark L. Mallory will announce what he calls a “major endorsement” for Cincinnati mayor from colleagues in the state legislature at 3 p.m. in Mount Echo Park, East Price Hill.
  
  
• David Pepper will address a class on urban lobbying at the University of Cincinnati at 3:30 p.m., talking about his plans for the first 90 days of a mayoral administration.
  
  
• The Over-the-Rhine Chamber of Commerce “meet the candidates” reception is at 5:30 p.m. at the Bell Event Centre, 444 Reading Road.
  
  
• The Hamilton County Democratic Party has its fall fund-raiser at 7:30 p.m. at the Cinergy Convention Center. Mallory and Pepper have agreed to jointly introduce the Democratic candidates for Cincinnati City Council.