Five things you need to know today, and modern American heroes

Good morning, Cincinnati! Is the Enquirer's Paul Daugherty asking a rhetorical question here? Am I? Is this too meta for an early Monday? Did your head just explode? (tl;dr: the Bengals lost again on Sunday.) Here are the five most important things you need to know to help start your busy business day: OKI, the area’s metropolitan planning agency, has awarded $40 million in federal funding to nearly two dozen projects in Greater Cincinnati, Chris Wetterich reports, including $11 million exclusively…