Last-minute money

Cincinnati Public Schools levy supporters have launched a last-minute radio advertising blitz, which wasn't planned until a unexpected campaign donation from Frisch's Restaurants Inc. that came just six days before Election Day.

The restaurant chain pumped in $10,000 to the shoestring-budget pro-levy effort on Wednesday, confirmed campiagn manager Theresa Lubic. That donation more than doubled the $8,650 in available cash reported on Oct. 25 by Cincinnatians Active to Support Education.

$10,000 is hardly a massive amount in the grand scheme of things (Frisch's gave more to the pro-sales tax Citizens for Safe Community), but it figures to go a long way for the CPS levy, which as of mid-October, had raised less money than a similar effort in the much-smaller Northwest Local School District.

With the infusion, 30-second spots will run on five radio stations through Monday, Lubic said.