Phil Heimlich can kiss my ass. The Hamilton County Commission president is the latest in a long and undistinguished line of politicians over ther past decade who have overpromised and underdelivere  

For me, the Person of the Year issue is a highlight on CityBeat's editorial calendar. It's our annual high-profile pat on the back for those in Greater Cincinnati who are working hard -- usually un  

For the past few weeks CityBeat, like many media outlets, has taken a look back at the highlights and lowlights of 2005. But that's too easy. The hard part is figuring out what's going to happen in  

What would any Christmas season be -- or any week, for that matter -- without bitching and moaning from political right-wingers about some vast liberal plot to eradicate their very way of life? It'  

Despite a whirlwind selection process that left many scratching their heads, including Eric Kearney himself, the Cincinnati lawyer and newspaper publisher heads to the Ohio Senate poised for a qui  

So I'm pushing my young son in his stroller the other night on a dark Clifton street, easing along with several hundred others in our neighborhood's annual fall lantern walk. Behind me I hear a voi  

Come on, admit it: We've all cast a vote in opposition to a stated position by the "other side." It's usually in a race or on an issue we know or care little about, but when we hear who a cert  

Election Day is less than a month away. Are you prepared to vote? Cincinnati residents, in particular, have dozens of candidates to learn and tons of information to digest before Nov. 8. But suburb  

The images from New Orleans and Mississippi were horrible the week after Hurricane Katrina struck: old people slumped in wheelchairs, babies in dirty diapers and everyone else in between, almost al  

The nation and the world watches as desperate people in New Orleans and Mississippi struggle to survive the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which certainly will rank with 9/11 as one of the worst