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I almost died at Red River Gorge when I was 17. My friend, Michutzel Roberto Giglio, and I crashed through a guard rail on a rainy night. Our car plunged 65 feet to the bottom of a ravine, splitting the boulder on which it landed. On the way down, I yell

Tags: Opinion, which, them, red

I have hearing loss. My right ear serves only for purposes of ornamentation. In 2005 I went into the Atlantic Ocean and came out with only my left ear working. I'm not alone in this condition. A colleague, a very able reporter in town, likewise went into

The Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless, where I work, likes to say it's an advocacy organization, distinguishing itself from agencies that provide direct service to clients. The distinction is valid, except for the fact that the Homeless Coali

Tags: Opinion, homeless

Obama’s landslide victory even includes Hamilton County

Tags: News Feature, Barack Obama

Frank Leonhartsberger used to scream in his sleep. I knew this from my mother, who lived with him for a while. Born in Allentown, Pa., to immigrant parents, his father died when he was 3 years old. His mother took him back to her family home in Austria,

Tags: Opinion, war, out, there, were

Tibet Fest supports endangered tradition

Tags: News Feature, lama, dalai, tibetan, monastery, gsl, tibet, monks, dorje

These are things I have seen and heard.... When I was a child in a fitful home, my Aunt Mary took my brothers and me to her home for extended visits, making us feel loved. When my daughter Sarah

Tags: Opinion, Madison Theater, Dan Deacon, Animal Collective

Last week many people rallied to CityBeat

Tags: Opinion, news, marriage, gay marriage, same-sex marriage, LGBT, Mike Moroski

Junk mail isn't always junk. Sometimes even an advertisement for a product or service that doesn't interest us can prompt useful questions. I recently received an e-mail from Andy Feld, a motivati

Tags: Opinion, Cincinnati, City Council, Police, 2013 Budget, Smitherman

Kevin Osborne's April 23 Porkopolis column ("Streicher's Slippery Hold on the Facts") is the kind of rigorous reporting that exemplifies the adversarial relationship that sometimes exists between j

Tags: Opinion, Milton Dohoney, budget, Cincinnati politics, Cincinnati news, Ohio news, deficit, debt

Recent unrest in Tibet and protests over the appearance of the Olympic torch show the value, indeed the necessity, of obtaining information from a variety of sources -- and treating all of them wit

Tags: Opinion, Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati politics, Cincinnati news, Ohio news

Journalism has consequences. That's the ethical issue that faces reporters on certain kinds of stories. Is all information good? Or is some information more harmful than good? My colleague, Ben L.

Tags: Opinion, The Harlequins, Ohio Knife, Cincy Psych Fest, Children of The Emerald Fire, The Tongue & Lips

The Sunday, March 16, edition of The Cincinnati Enquirer answers the question: Why should we read newspapers? It's because of articles such as "Story Behind the Lockdown in the 2004 Vote" on page A

Tags: Opinion, Taft Theatre, Buffalo Killers, Brian Olive, Ballroom at the Taft, Alive Records

I recently received a press release from the Northern Kentucky Convention & Visitors Bureau that I found interesting for a variety of reasons

Tags: Opinion, Aronoff Center, Cincinnati arts, Cincinnati theater, Matt Stone, The Book of Mormon, Trey Parker

Our lives are inundated by noise, some of it auditory, some visual, some both. It's hard to realize how unquiet our lives are until we temporarily step outside the familiar regimen of constant inpu

Tags: Opinion, Fountain Square, Washington Park, Lavomatic

One or two words can make all the difference in what a news article says

Tags: Opinion, 20th Century Theater, Walk the Moon, Anna Sun

The silliest edition of Porkopolis this year was one of the very first of 2007. The Jan. 10 column included the threat of a march by neo-Nazis, a secret meeting between the mayor of Cincinnati and

Tags: Cincinnati News, World Choir Games, Cincinnati arts

Over-the-Rhine has lost a friend and advocate, as have homeless people, panhandlers, people struggling with addiction and those who dared to leave suburban comforts in an effort to know the heart

Tags: Cincinnati News, taxis, transportation

Soothsayers and sages at your service

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Voters' rejection of a tax levy last month for Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) means options need to be considered by the board of education. The fallout is more than financial, but money was the

Tags: Cincinnati News, Bogart's, The Afghan Whigs