Are all groceries created equal? Does it matter where we buy our food? Otherwise serious people treat shopping at Findlay Market as a kind of civic virtue, an expression of support for Cincinnati  

Isn't sleep the last thing an addict needs? Yes -- and that's the first lesson in recovery at Prospect House. Learning when to go to bed and when to rise is among the simple, but necessary, first   

Free trade and globalization are supposed to help everyone. How does a concept that sounds so uniting become so dividing? If there are more jobs in Third World countries, if electricity goes privat  

Will Cincinnati Police officers restrain themselves Saturday, or will they treat the March for Justice like a shooting gallery? The answer is so unclear that attorney Robert Newman last week asked   

If they're going to start arresting people for being bad parents, shouldn't they start by staking out places other than soccer practice? "Got time to pencil in a five o'clock arrest, Mrs. Cleaver?"  

Will the Black United Front blow it, as many hope it does? Or is Rev. Damon Lynch III smart enough to avoid a trap? Perhaps it's fitting that in a city whose name comes from Cincinnatus, military   

Do we really want to save tax money by ending state subsidies for condoms, birth-control pills and other kinds of contraceptives? Right to Life is best-known for opposing legal abortion, but the gr  

Oh, won't you come to Cincinnati in the springtime, when blossoms are bursting and breezes are blowing and the streets are crying out for justice? Won't you come with your plastic-bucket drums and   

Norwood might be the latest city to embrace a new Walgreens store by leveling older buildings. But would the benefits justify the social cost? The city has been on a decade-long redevelopment spree  

Will improved funding for low-income school districts come at the cost of housing programs for the poor? School funding has center stage in the Ohio Legislature's budget battle, but housing advocat  

Did you thank your boss this morning for the opportunity to maximize company profits? Enthusiasm is the character quality for the month of March, brought to you by the Character Council of Greater   

After a little hemming and hawing, Cincinnati City Council last week passed its first campaign finance reform law in years. But will the new law, which deals only with information disclosure, mean t  

Why Is a Dead Man Raising Your Rent? And Why Didn't He Do It Sooner?Who owns the land? If you own a business or rent an apartment in certain parts of Over-the-Rhine, the answer might be an expensiv  

Has revolution gone respectable? Newport's World Peace Bell will peal Wednesday for its most controversial ringer yet, a man banned as a terrorist by the British government in 1982. Martin McGuinne  

"Isn't that surprising?" Dusty Rhodes asks. Before you know what the question means, you have to understand Rhodes is the Hamilton County Auditor. Hamilton County has finished its first audit of ta