Writing As Renewable Resource
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 9, 2007
My attempts to tell the truth about myself used to feel like describing foliage by studying a topographical map: I could guess what people expected to grow where, but I really couldn't tell what I
Tax No-How
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 11, 2007
I haven't done my income taxes yet. Probably I'll get money back; if I owe, I guess I'll figure something out on the 16th. Same with buying gas. I don't exert myself to scout out the cheapest in t
Rene Denfeld -- All God's Children: Inside the Dark and Violent World of Street Families (Publicaffairs)
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Read this book and you'll never look the same way at young kids hanging by Bogart's on Short Vine or begging spare change outside drugstores. That latter activity is "spanging," according to t
News: A Fighter to the End
Cancer claims a defender of the environment
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 4, 2007
By Maria Rogers AK Steel is a Fortune 500 company. AK's neighbor, Ray Agee, was a disabled truck driver who wouldn't back down on his commitment to clean air. Agee died of cancer March 20, les
Main Street Coming and Going
0 Comments · Wednesday, March 21, 2007
The morning after finds me creeping down the entryway. For the first time since I moved to Over-the-Rhine, I'm scared to see the street beyond my apartment building. The security gate's curling de
News: Cop Test
Arresting questions for applicants
0 Comments · Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Do you have what it takes to be a Cincinnati Police officer? One part of the assessment process is a multiple-choice test. The questions don´t require specific police or law enforcement knowl
News: Keeping Melissa Warm
Writers embrace one of their own
0 Comments · Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Sometimes Melissa Mosby awakens into the dark and tells herself the truth: "My name is Melissa Mosby. I am 40 years old. I am sleeping in a trash room. This is really my life." Mosby is homeles
News: The County Adds Pepper
Democrats even take Hamilton County
0 Comments · Wednesday, November 8, 2006
In an election season riddled with more negative ad campaigns than anyone seems to remember -- until next year's -- David Pepper attributes his defeat of incumbent Hamilton County Commissioner P
News: 'Cheers' for Over-the-Rhine
Tucker's Restaurant celebrates 60 years
0 Comments · Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Where to find 86-year-old Maynie Tucker 60 years after she first opened the eponymous restaurant? "You just have to say, 'Hey, Mom, come on out,' " says Brian Muldoon, who -- like many of May
Cover Story: Phemale Pharmacology
Why can't politicians keep their hands off our bodies?
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Addressing the state of women's health care is impossible without once again looking at what Ohio legislators have been up to. Looks like some of them have been up to preventing women from fully
