Election Day draws near, and change is afoot. You can feel it in the air. You can hear it in the desperate TV ads being run by Republicans. You know you're unhappy with how things are going, and  

Election Day draws near, and change is afoot. You can feel it in the air. You can hear it in the desperate TV ads being run by Republicans. You know you're unhappy with how things are going, and  

Election Day is now two weeks away, and you've likely been inundated with TV and radio ads, mailers, doorknob hangers, live phone calls and automated/recorded phone calls. Now the media and special   

Election Day is less than three weeks away, and no matter where your voting precinct is your ballot will be full. As always, CityBeat is here to help you separate the wheat from the chaff. We begin  

Cincinnatians have struggled recently with an alarming crime surge or a runaway perception that crime is surging, take your pick -- it's the same thing really. Placed on top of lingering doubts abo  

One of the cornerstones of CityBeat's annual State of the Arts issue has been our ranking of the most influential people in Cincinnati arts, which we've presented in one form or another since 1  

This week's cover story on Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell unofficially kicks off CityBeat's 2006 election coverage. Over the next 10 weeks or so, expect to see lots of news stories about the  

Early August, hot and humid, lots of people on vacation, not much going on -- it's the very definition of Dog Days. That phrase has always seemed fitting for this time of year, even though I never  

Editor's Note: Katie is unable to write her column this month due to a recent hospitalization. This column from last fall is an appropriate substitute as the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrin  

Last month I sat with several hundred journalism colleagues as former President Bill Clinton addressed the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies' annual conference in Little Rock, Ark. He took qu