I love to walk by the School for Creative and Performing Arts in late spring, when the lush climbing roses scale the fence on East 14th Street to provide a heady profusion of color, beauty and scent  

One of the most important elections in Cincinnati history starts Tuesday with the non-partisan primary for mayor. The top two finishers then square off to determine the city's next political leader,  

University of Cincinnati Coach Bob Huggins is a boozy hick, a (formerly) good basketball coach whose black talent doesn't graduate as successfully as they play. They might not even be able to read   

I've been trying to write this editorial for months now, but I can't seem to find a good way into the subject. I still can't. How do you vent about your disgust over President Bush's war in Iraq a  

The Rev. Charles Winburn is a dangerous man. Sometimes intriguing, always unintentionally funny but dangerous nonetheless. Winburn is identically dangerous as many of his right-sided, church-and-s  

According to Greek legend, it was a goatherd named Kaldi who accidentally stumbled onto the stimulating effects of eating coffee beans. After too many cups of Kaldi's Coffeehouse's house blend and s  

Driving into work this morning on I-75 was, as usual, a breeze. Traffic moves quickly on the fairly short stretch of highway I use to get downtown, though I occasionally run into some stalls on the   

I spent a week in San Francisco at the end of June, bathed in temperate breezes and surrounded by beauty: alabaster palaces draped in purple bougainvillea and oleander, marinas of white sail boats p  

In the parallel universe of race and class inhabited by Cincinnatians and Americans in general, black-on-black and white-on-white crime are identical yet somehow simultaneously different (she said   

When the first letter appeared in my mailbox at WNKU radio, where I do a program at 6-9 Sunday evenings, I was amused. But I read it and chuckled. The writer signed himself "Pester Flatt." (If you   

Do I have to beat this into you? Republican Cincinnati City Councilman Sam Malone got elected on a platform of black-on-black violence. Over grainy, closed-circuit images of black thugs looting and  

Moderate Republicans, we're all counting on you. I know you're out there living your daily life, working your job, paying your taxes, loving your family. You're conservative on social issues and mo  

When I was a kid, I always enjoyed asking my parents questions about their childhoods during the end of the Depression and through World War II. I just liked hearing stories -- I still do -- though  

EDITOR'S NOTE: The editorial to the right is reprinted with permission from the March issue of Editor & Publisher, the respected newspaper industry magazine. The unsigned column, titled "Cincy's Ir  

Basking in the glow of the sweeping passage of Ohio's Issue 1 last fall, Citizens for Community Values President Phil Burress boasted to The New York Times that his religious-based political movemen