News: A Matter of Style
Beyond plans and qualifications, the mayor's race swings on intangibles
0 Comments · Wednesday, November 2, 2005
When it comes to deciding which dot on the mayor's ballot to poke with that stylus Tuesday, it mostly comes down to differences in the candidates' styles. CityBeat has already parsed the respe
News: Transparency in Office
Cincinnati gets a taste of revolutionary politics, Hawaii-style
0 Comments · Wednesday, November 2, 2005
The trim man wearing the Hawaiian shirt didn't look or sound like any successful local politician. He sounded more like the handful of starry-eyed idealists who every two years lose their bids fo
News: Next Stop: New Hope
On a bus tour of Over-the-Rhine developments
0 Comments · Wednesday, October 26, 2005
As usual, clowns have the right idea: Pile 'em all in a small vehicle and rattle around town for a few hours. A charter bus, 50 people and a few hours circling through Over-the-Rhine seemed a q
The 1.5 Percent Solution
0 Comments · Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Cincinnati isn't usually noted for its compassion toward any underdogs besides its sports teams. But for more than 20 years the city's Human Services Policy has quietly set aside 1.5 percent of the
Cover Story: See How They Run
In Politics, It Isn't Easy Being Green
0 Comments · Wednesday, October 19, 2005
If you were around for the Cincinnati City Council race two years ago, you'd expect this year's campaign to be more impassioned, more fiery. There are 31 candidates running for nine council sea
News: The Cuckoo Outgrows The Nest
Neighbors fly into a rage over bar's patrons
0 Comments · Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Like the namesake character made famous by Jack Nicholson, the attempt to lobotomize R. P. McMurphy's Irish Pub and Coffeehouse began Sept. 30. The bar faces the operational equivalent of a lobotom
News: Clamoring for Peace
Hundreds from Cincinnati join national protest against the war
0 Comments · Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Washington, D.C. -- Like any good left-leaning protest, the messages were all over the place, nothing started on time and young neo-punks in black and bandanas came looking for trouble if not re
News: Like Prophets Confronting the King
The spirituality of agitating for peace
0 Comments · Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Washington, D.C. -- A Pentecostal preacher, a rabbi and a Muslim imam walked into an anti-war protest, and the punch line was deadly serious. The progressive movement needs to better embody its fai
News: Signs of Progress
Also crosses, concert tickets and a ride for Joe Lieberman
0 Comments · Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Washington, D.C. When Cindy Sheehan and her supporters first erected the crosses in Texas, they were meant to symbolize every American soldier killed in Iraq. But when they brought the cros
Campaign Rebate
0 Comments · Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Knowing who's kicking which candidate how much money can be invaluable for tracing back favors and unholy alliances, but sometimes the exercise resembles schoolyard bickering: Who did you sit next t
