What started in fall 2003 with an off-color joke at a business luncheon ended with Cincinnati City Council chambers packed full of outraged local Chinese Americans and a city declaration to honor
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: Cincinnati City Councilman Sam Malone's invective against Issue 3 during an Oct. 23 candidates' breakfast at New Hope Baptist Church outraged Barbara Chin. "He was really s
One reason the campaign to defeat Issue 3, the repeal of Article 12 of the city charter, might resonate even with African-American voters who don't buy the misleading "Save Civil Rights" argument is
Less was more when it came to kicking out an MTV Rock the Vote event featuring informational booths and music just four days before it was scheduled at the Main Public Library, according to the Pre
Cincinnati City Councilman John Cranley tried making a good show of reacting decisively to two shootings that have alarmed denizens of his native Price Hill. He introduced legislation to prevent co
At the same time that Jamie Turner found feces in Mill Creek, which runs past her house in Springfield Township, her 1-year-old daughter Lauren got very sick. Six months later the child is just
Lea McBean leafs through a stack of photographs more than a hundred deep. The vast majority of them show her husband, Ira, 28, and a child sleeping somewhere nearby: Ira with their son Elijah, 6, pa
Still Waiting: Councilman Christopher Smitherman's office says that the executive director of the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA), Donald Troendle, has agreed to add Princess Gill's
Young and Giving: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF) is looking for six young (21-40), energetic civic volunteers. When it finds them, GCF will give them $2,000 each for the nonprofit organizat
It started innocently enough, as a list of questions I couldn't find or get answers to by press time. Then the questions just kept coming.... How many people will return to the National Underground