The campaign signs of Hamilton City Council candidate Art Sauerwein play off of Skyline Chili's slogan, “It's Skyline Time.”

        Like Skyline's logo, Mr. Sauerwein's signs have a yellow background with a blue city skyline inside an oval. Except the skyline is Hamilton's, not Cincinnati's. And the slogan is “It's Sauerwein time.”

        “I wanted something different and catchy that would get people's attention and would start conversations,” said Mr. Sauerwein, a commander with the Butler County Sheriff's Department. “It's really done that.”

        He credits his friend, Julie Hoelle, who runs a T-shirt business in Hamilton, with concocting his campaign slogan and logo. The photo is by his friend, Hamilton photographer Pat Brown.

Tom Allen, Skyline Chili's vice president of marketing, said he has not yet seen the sign.

        “If it appears to be an infringement on our trademark, we would ask that he stop using it,” he said.
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        Fuller time: Charlie Luken splits his time four ways lately: There's his job as Cincinnati's mayor, his campaign for Cincinnati's mayor, his job as a consultant at the law firm Keating, Muething & Klekamp and, we presume, some sort of private life.

        The charter amendment that gives the next mayor stronger powers doesn't say it's a full-time job. But it does have a full-time paycheck, about $120,000 a year.

        “As I tell people now, the job is not full-time — it's only 65 hours a week,” Mr. Luken joked. “After Dec. 1, it will be a fuller-time job — er, more full-time. I hate to use that word, "Fuller.'”

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        Onward Cavalier candidates: If you want to grow up to be president, go to Harvard or Yale.

        And if you want to grow up to run for Cincinnati City Council? Go to Purcell Marian.

        The small, Catholic high school in East Walnut Hills has five graduates on the ballot this year, more than any other school.

        At the top of the ticket is Mr. Luken (Class of '69). Council candidates are David Crowley ('55) Clarence Williams III ('61) Todd Ward ('84) and Akiva Freeman ('91).

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