The smoking lounge for CityBeat employees is the sidewalk in front of the building, which is where three of us were talking June 8 when a disheveled man walked up, pronounced himself hungry and as  

The jail tax imposed last week by the Hamilton County Board of Commissioners seems to be one of those rare causes that pull in both progressives and conservatives. That's because the board did th  

It must have been a moment of pride for all Ohioans last week -- and especially for the new Democratic governor -- when Christopher Newton was slowly executed at the state prison in Lucasville. Th  

There are child molesters among us. That's not surprising, but how we learn about them can be. In April the clergy newsletter for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati included an advisory  

Imagine if coffee were banned. The black market wouldn't allow the luxury of choosing between Jamaican and Colombian, latte and espresso. You'd take what you could get -- and then you'd get out  

The annual audit of the Cincinnati Public School District released last week contains more information than just assets and liabilities. Think of the audit as a numerical snapshot, a financial and d  

Voters last year rejected a proposal to raise sales taxes to build a new jail. Dissatisfied with that decision, the two Democrats who control the board of county commissioners want another vote --  

Americans of Irish, Italian and Chinese descent remember the prejudice and hostility that often greeted their forebears when they first came in large numbers to the United States, let alone the cr  

Outrages New and Old He went and did it: Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, a Democrat, ordered his first execution just three months after taking office. During last year's campaign Strickland said   

White crime caused the cancellation of a march planned for Friday by the American National Socialist Workers Party. Bill White of Roanoke, Va., commander of the party, says the group's Ohio coor