I’ve got a problem. Some call it a problem, at least. Personally, I prefer “fixation.” Better yet, a love. Passion. Interest. Civic duty, if you want to be fancy about it. Ask any of my former roommates; they’ll call it a compulsion. A quirk. The one descriptor they’ll use to sum me up to their next roommate. “God, she had this weird thing about recycling … drove me nuts.”    

The vibe of the Pleasant Ridge community business district was recently threatened when rumors began surfacing of corporate intentions to purchase the defining block of the neighborhood to demolish the buildings, making way for a new, deluxe Walgreens including a drive-thru pharmacy. Those affected would include long-standing Everybody’s Records, the Gas Light Café, Ridge Jewelers, Royal Barbers and others.
  

Modern. Confident. Beautiful — new name, same game. The final issue of the smart, saucy women’s mag, A-Line Magazine, hit stands in May, but the brains behind A-Line Magazine now head up her Cinci  

Cincinnati Duke Energy customers could face increased utility costs to help Duke relocate utility lines for the new streetcar, if state regulators decide to permit Duke to recover expenses associated with the mass transit project. CINCINNATI  -1
  

Imagine: You take your children to the park for a leisurely stroll beside some calm lake waters. You're looking for pure, unadulterated nature; an escape from the industrial hullabaloo that is city life.
Instead, you find several areas of the park blocked off, occupied by massive machines sucking out shale and oil through the process known as "  

The University of Cincinnati lost a court battle yesterday when a federal judge ruled that the public university's decision to restrict all "demonstrations, picketing, and rallies" to a Free Speech Area was a violation of the First Amendment.

U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Black ruled that containing the area in which students and outsiders who obtain the proper permission to demonstrat...  

A Minnesota high school student was recently forbidden from wearing black and silver rosary beads in support of his breast cancer-stricken grandmother because school officials said the beads could symbolize gang membership. WORLD -1
  

Rumors surrounding the fate of beloved Pleasant Ridge small businesses including Everybody’s Records and Gas Light Café have been bubbling as of late, ignited by claims that drugstore chain Walgreens has expressed interest in purchasing the property in favor of demolishing the existing architecture to make way for a new, deluxe Walgreens location.
  

Ohio environmentalists and conservationists won a small victory against the fracking industry June 6 when Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD) decided to halt all water sales from Ohio's largest contained watershed to drillers in the oil and gas industry.   

On June 19, 1865, the face of humanity in the United States changed forever in Galveston, Tex. when, legend has it, Union General Gordon Granger announced the formal abolition of slavery. Can you thin