News: Writing the Law
Judge teaches lawyers the art of clarity
0 Comments · Wednesday, January 3, 2007
They file in with cups of coffee, glasses of iced tea, lemonade, soft drinks and take their seats in a large room at the Cincinnati Bar Center on Sixth Street downtown. There are more than three d
News: Building Bridges
Former NCCJ recommits to mission with new name
0 Comments · Wednesday, December 27, 2006
It's only been a month, but the numbers of affiliated organizations is growing, the public is warming to the old group's new name and Robert "Chip" Harrod musters the excitement of a school ki
News: Remembering Buddy Gray
Still influential a decade after his death
0 Comments · Wednesday, November 8, 2006
And meanwhile, awake to live as unacceptably, non-calmly unpleasantly dislikably impatiently loudly disrespectfully and disruptively and as contagiously collectively as I am able as long as is n
News: Blaming the Jews
Write-in candidate espouses nutty conspiracy
0 Comments · Wednesday, October 25, 2006
The White House and the big media are controlled by a "criminal syndicate led by neo-con Jews," the World Trade Center on 9/11 was toppled by a "controlled demolition" and the planes seen slic
Cover Story: Finding Ken Blackwell
Defining a candidate who switches parties and doesn't do interviews
0 Comments · Wednesday, August 16, 2006
He is both maverick and doctrinaire, one who as a college student in the late 1960s came across as something of a black radical, then matured politically into a collegial Charterite and within a
News: Democrats Aim for County
Tuesday's primary pits known winner versus diversity
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Check this out -- it will be an election season in which local incumbents face serious challenges: · U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Milford) faces a serious challenge from former Congressman Bo
News: Cincinnati at Night: Veterinary Clinic
Caring for pets around the clock
0 Comments · Wednesday, December 8, 2004
The clinic's windows burn bright long after the windows of other businesses nearby have darkened and closed for the night. Cars pull into the parking lot along Red Bank Road, unloading pets in d
Cover Story: Cincinnati's next Republican Mayor?
Barkeep, writer, judge: Mark Painter and the urban life
0 Comments · Wednesday, June 30, 2004
Oh, those occasional sharp written rebukes, the allusions to popular culture, the uncluttered prose and sheer accessibility of language in his opinions. The judge disdains legalese; indeed, he ra
The Alternative Press Used to Be Considered Dangerous
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 7, 2004
It was a rocky road and it lasted just three years -- six if you count the last years, when it was hanging on by its fingernails. They were spied on, intimidated, had secret files opened on them, be
News: Being Bugged
How to enjoy the coming cicada infestation
0 Comments · Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Gene Kritsky considers himself a cicada baby, which means only that he was born in 1953 when a bunch of the bugs called Brood X -- literally tons of them -- left their underground world after 17 y
