I am in the process of changing the layout of River Vices. Until those changes are finished, I have created River Vices 2 for new postings. To see "Duncan's Brain," the first posting on River Vices 2, click here.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Monday, May 20, 2013
City Council Appointees: Portsmouth’s Perennial Problem
Mark Twain showed river towns have more than their share of vices. RIVER VICES shows Portsmouth, located at the confluence of the Ohio and Scioto Rivers, is no exception.
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| Mike Mearan: the Most Notorious Appointee |
The Portsmouth Daily Times
reported (18 May 2013) that a second candidate, Lance L. Richardson, is going to throw his hat in the ring for the Third
Ward council seat being vacated by Nick Basham. Does that mean he wants to be appointed by the council or that he wants to be a write-in candidate in the regular election? As far as I know, Richardson has previously shown no interest in becoming a member of city government the old-fashioned way, by running for office. That is often the case with appointees. They run for office the way Rosie Ruiz ran the 1980 Boston Marathon, by skipping the grueling race but showing up at the finish line. The “ring” Richardson threw his hat into consists
not of Portsmouth voters but the remaining five Portsmouth city council members whom the city
charter authorizes to appoint replacements to the city council. Back on 26 June 2006, Richard
Noel, president of the Concerned Citizens Group, wrote a letter to the Portsmouth City Council requesting that a measure be placed on the ballot calling for the term for
city council members be reduced from four to two years. Up until 1985, Portsmouth City Council
members served two-year terms, but then that provision
was changed in that year by charter amendment. The council rejected Noel's proposal and declined to allow the voters decide whether to go back to two-year terms.
City Council = House of Representatives
The Founding Fathers intended that the U.S. House of Representatives be “the people’s house,” the body of the federal government that would be directly elected by, and therefore most accountable to, the people. It was to be the most representative and the most held-accountable body of the federal government. In the Federalist Papers, Hamilton and Madison wrote, “As it is essential to liberty that the government in general should have a common interest with the people, so it is particularly essential that the branch of it under consideration [the House of Representatives] should have an immediate dependence on, and an intimate sympathy with, the people.” The best way they could think of to insure that the House of Representatives would remain “the people’s house,” was frequent elections. “Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured” [emphasis added], they wrote in number 52 of the Federalist Papers. In regard to frequent elections, they quoted, in number 53, the proverb “that where annual elections end, tyranny begins.” But that proverb was an old one, and conditions had changed since ancient Greece. Elections every year were impractical when many voters were spread over large areas. Somewhat reluctantly, because they preferred annual elections, the Founding Fathers decided that the maximum term for a representative should be biennial, that is, two years.
Local Government in Ohio
When Ohio designed its state government, it closely followed the federal model, with a General Assembly that consisted of a House of Representatives and a Senate. Following the federal model, terms for the Ohio House, the “people’s house,” were two years. Most local governments in Ohio usually followed the state model. In local governments, the legislative body, the counterpart to a House of Representatives, is the city council. Following the example of the House of Representatives, two-year terms were the general rule for city councils. But a number of cities and towns have shifted to a mixture of two-year terms for ward representatives and four-year terms for at-large council members; other communities have shifted to a four-year term for all council members. The Columbus City Council has four-year terms, but the city councils of Cleveland and Cincinnati retain two-year terms. While there are exceptions, generally smaller communities are more likely to have four-year terms for city council, the larger ones two-year terms. Why the difference?
Possibly because larger urban areas with a history of municipal corruption and machine politics see two-year terms as a way of removing those council members who turn out to be bad apples before they spoil all the apples in the barrel. Cities and towns that have been plagued by corruption and that distrust politicians as a class want city councils to be on the short leash that two-year terms represent. A political machine or, in the case of Portsmouth, a clique, would more likely arise and persist in a city where members of city council had four rather than two years in which to scheme, collude, and corrupt. Communities that don’t have a history of crooked politics don’t want to go through the trouble and expense of having elections every two years. But large cities like Cleveland and Cincinnati may have learned that biennial elections are worth the trouble because they make the city council more accountable. They learned from experience, as we have bitterly in Portsmouth, that at least some politicians are not to be trusted. The same thing that makes four-year terms seem sensible in some communities makes them seem unwise in others. The Concerned Citizens believed four-year city council terms is asking for trouble, which is what Portsmouth got when it changed to four-year terms in 1985.
Checks and Balances
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| The late Howard Baughman entering Marting Building during an open-house for the public |
The three branches of government that the Founding Fathers established—the legislative, the executive, and the judicial—were intended to serve as checks and balances on each other. The counterparts of those three branches of government are discernible in local government in the mayor or city manager (executive), the city council (legislative), and the city solicitor and city courts (judiciary). Unfortunately, too often at the local level, the three branches of government, rather than checking and balancing each other, are in cahoots, forming a tyranny that, with the connivance of the local media, represses and exploits the public they are supposed to be serving. If you want to see a cornpone version of the kind of tyranny our Founding Fathers were concerned about, Portsmouth provides a textbook example. The Portsmouth city council, the mayor, the city solicitor, the auditor, with the collusion of long-time city clerk Jo Ann Aeh, would regularly meet illegally in her office just before council meetings like a gang of safe-crackers planning a job. It was at one of these illegal backroom meetings that Marty Mohr orchestrated the appointment of Jerrold Albrecht to the city council as Austin Leedom reported online in The Sentinel, dated 6 May 2007 (click here). (For other Mohr antics, clear here.) While attending one of these closed-door illegal meetings, then councilman Marty Mohr was photographed through the city clerk's open door Joe Ferguson. The mugging Mohr responded defiantly by clenching his teeth for the camera.
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| Marty Mohr mugging for camera |
Just as Mayor Bauer predicted chaos would reign if he was recalled from office, and just as council president Carol Caudill said, “God help the city of Portsmouth” after she was recalled, the president of the city council in 2006, Howard Baughman, who was facing a recall, warned of the consequences if the city council returned to two-year terms. Baughman remarked at the 25 June 2006 city council meeting, “There’s a learning curve when you become a city councilman.” He did not think council members could possibly come to understand budgets in only two years. The real reason Baughman and others opposed two-year terms was not learning curves. Two-year terms were unacceptable because they might have helped loosen the grip of the clique of lawyers and developers who controlled the city through their puppets on the city council.
The only other defense beside
“learning curves” Baughman offered against two-year terms was that, “It would
just be constant turmoil and turnover every two years.” Though all council
members would run for election at the same time, it is unlikely that they would
all be defeated. And if they were, that might be the best thing for the city. If
biennial elections bring constant turmoil, how have the U.S. House of
Representatives, the Ohio House of Representatives, and the city councils of
many cities in Ohio managed to survive for as long as they have with two-year
terms? Where is the turmoil in the following two-year term Ohio cities: Alliance,
Amherst, Athens, Blue Ash, Chillicothe, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Cuyahoga Falls,
Lorrain, North Royalton, Norwood, Parma, Silverton, Warren, Wilmington,
Wyoming, etc? There has been a lot of turmoil in the Portsmouth City Council since
1985 and much of it has been the result,
directly and indirectly, of four-year terms and the recalls that would not
likely have taken place if council members had faced the electorate every two
years.
Honest
capable people in public office have no reason to object to two-year terms,
because they can be assured of reelection if they do a good job. It’s the
dishonest council members, and especially those who began their careers by
being appointed rather than elected, who want the four-year terms to continue.
Four-year terms for city council members helped perpetuate the political
clique that controlled Portsmouth on behalf of the now discredited Southern Ohio
Growth Partnership (SOGP). I don’t know whether Lance Richardson would turn out to be a good or bad councilman,
but why did he throw his hat in the
ring only now, as a potential appointee, rather than run in a regular election, as I
would think anyone not trying to cut corners and short-change democracy would prefer to do? Let us hope Richardson, a self-proclaimed tax expert, is not another of those shipwrecked characters who save themselves from drowning in a sea of insignificance by clambering aboard the raft of city government that is already crowded with other failures, dreaming no doubt that the game of musical chairs might result someday in their becoming mayor, as Malone did when he won the booby prize as a result of Mayor Murray’s recall.
When you consider the council members who began their careers as appointees, the list is not encouraging. Baughman was originally an appointee, when his friend and his next-door neighbor John Thatcher, conveniently resigned as Fifth Ward councilman. And then Baughman himself resigned before he could be recalled, making the appointment of John Haas possible in the endless appointee game of musical chairs that is orchestrated by Portsmouth’s powerful, unelected clique. Jerrold Albrecht first got on the council by appointment, and so did the notorious shyster Mike Mearan. James R. Saddler is the most recent appointment. Saddler had not shown any interest in city government previously, except when he had to appear in court for numerous speeding violations, including a DUI for which his license was suspended. For all those who prefer to begin their political careers by applying to the council for a vacated position rather than run in an election, we should have buttons that say not “I Voted,” but rather “I Applied.” But in any campaign to reduce the terms on city council to two years, Mearan should be the poster boy and he should be proudly wearing an “I Applied” button.
When you consider the council members who began their careers as appointees, the list is not encouraging. Baughman was originally an appointee, when his friend and his next-door neighbor John Thatcher, conveniently resigned as Fifth Ward councilman. And then Baughman himself resigned before he could be recalled, making the appointment of John Haas possible in the endless appointee game of musical chairs that is orchestrated by Portsmouth’s powerful, unelected clique. Jerrold Albrecht first got on the council by appointment, and so did the notorious shyster Mike Mearan. James R. Saddler is the most recent appointment. Saddler had not shown any interest in city government previously, except when he had to appear in court for numerous speeding violations, including a DUI for which his license was suspended. For all those who prefer to begin their political careers by applying to the council for a vacated position rather than run in an election, we should have buttons that say not “I Voted,” but rather “I Applied.” But in any campaign to reduce the terms on city council to two years, Mearan should be the poster boy and he should be proudly wearing an “I Applied” button.
Current First Ward councilman Kevin W. Johnson tried to begin his political
career in Portsmouth when he applied to council to replace Tim Loper after Loper was forced to resign his seat when it was proved he was not living in the First Ward, the ward he represented, in violation of the city charter. To replace Loper, the city council appointed Mearan, arguably the most scandalous appointee in the history of the city, rather than Kevin W. Johnson.
I find the political jockeying to become council president that takes place among those council members, some of whom were originally appointees, unseemly. When Jane Murray was recalled, David Malone, as president of the council, replaced her in spite of the fact he had finished fourth behind her in the previous mayoral election. Malone had been elected to the presidency and next in line to be mayor, by appointees such as the lawyer John Haas, his fellow bankrupt, who is yet another council member who was appointed after failing to succeed in his chosen field. It is almost as if there is an unwritten requirement that candidates must be failures, if not bankrupts, before they will be considered as appointees. Who with any self respect would want to owe their presence on the council to an appointment by such a council? To revise the famous quote by Groucho Marx, “I don't want to belong to any city council that would accept me as a member.”
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Prostitution Culture
[In response to “Non-Profits Ruining Neighborhoods,” an important posting on Jane Murray’s blog (click here), I am reposting (below) a 2005 River Vices article “Prostitution Culture.”]
Naked Truths
Perhaps reacting to criticism that it does not do investigative reporting, that it leaves that to the Shawnee Sentinel while it masters the art of cover-up journalism, the Portsmouth Daily Times ran a four-part series on prostitution in Portsmouth by staff writer Phyllis Noah. The title of the series was “Naked Truths: the Story Behind Portsmouth’s Prostitution Culture.” Wow!
Let the hooker who is without sin write the first 4-part series on Portsmouth’s prostitution culture. For a reporter on the Daily Times to write an expose of Portsmouth’s prostitution culture is like Winona Ryder writing on the sins of shoplifting or Monica Lewinsky on the evils of oral sex.
There is a limited definition of prostitution, which is selling one’s body for money, and a general meaning, which is selling one’s soul for an unworthy cause or corrupt group. The phrase “prostitution culture” suggests something more than hookers on John St. It suggests the more general definition of prostitution. Given its notoriety and conspicuousness, prostitution is the best metaphor for the political culture of Portsmouth, and I have used that metaphor a number of times in this blog.
Perhaps to bolster flagging circulation, the Daily Times marketed the 4-part series by calling it in a touch of tabloid titillation “The Naked Truth.” It sounds like the front page not of the Portsmouth Daily Times but of the New York Daily News. Naked? You would no more want to see the prostitutes of Portsmouth naked than you would want to see former councilwoman Carol Caudill, the Sassy Lassie of the Internet, as the centerfold in Playboy Magazine. Truth? The Daily Times will do everything it can to increase its sclerotic circulation except tell the truth about Portsmouth’s “prostitution culture.” The prostitute culture of Portsmouth consists of far more than the hookers of John St. TheDaily Times fears the truth the way Dracula does the cross because telling the truth about Portsmouth’s prostitute culture would mean ending its role as the prostitute to the over-privileged Johns who control the city. The over-privileged of Portsmouth turn as many tricks as the prostitutes on John St., but they do it in the name of philanthropy and public service.
The Master Plan: The Worse the Better
The way the master plan for Portsmouth works, the worse things get in the city and the more blighted it becomes, the better it is for the over-privileged who profit from the pork that the city becomes eligible for. As shown on 3rd St., where Hatcher’s abated student dormitories were built, the temptation to declare healthy streets and neighborhoods blighted is too hard to resist when millions of dollars of pork and profits can be accumulated. One of the economic side benefits of prostitution in Portsmouth is that it provides public sector employment for those whose jobs are to deal with the many streetwalkers. It is another illustration of the rule that where Portsmouth is concerned, the worse things get the more public funds will be pumped into the city. The economy of Portsmouth relies heavily on the public funds that can be appropriated to incarcerate criminals, house addicted prostitutes and their children, house the aged and college students, and welcome tourists and, possibly, gamblers.
There is precious little about prostitutes in the series “The Naked Truth” and a lot about drugs and drug counselors and drug authorities. The message of the series is that Portsmouth’s prostitution problem is really a drug problem. Of the dozen people Noah interviewed, few of them were prostitutes, and those few were discussed in relation to drugs. Honesty in advertising requires that if you are going to run a 4-part series on drugs that you call it a four-part series on drugs, and not try to pruriently imply it has anything to do with nakedness.
Going in Circles
If you explain the prevalence of prostitution in Portsmouth by drugs, how do you explain the prevalence of drugs in Portsmouth? Noah’s explanation is that prostitution is a serious problem because of drugs. What Noah offers is not an explanation but an excuse of why there is so much prostitution in Portsmouth. But as Municipal Judge Schisler told Noah, the drug problem is no worse in Portsmouth than elsewhere. If that’s the case, then why is there so much more prostitution in Portsmouth? Drugs do not explain why Portsmouth is, per capita, the prostitution capital of Ohio. To explain Portsmouth prostitution by drugs and Portsmouth drugs by prostitution is to go in circles.
Prostitution is called the world’s oldest profession because it has been around for thousands of years, thousands of years before there was a drug culture. The economic, social and psychological reasons for prostitution – the sexist attitude toward women, the chronic lack of employment in this area, the failures of the public education system, the breakdown of the family, the salaciousness of popular culture – theDaily Times does not consider these among the causes of prostitution. Everything is attributed to drugs, a neat and simple explanation that implies drug dealers are the cause of prostitution.
Are there no other culprits than shadowy drug dealers? What about real estate developers? Prostitutes play an important role in Portsmouth “redevelopment.” They accelerate the deterioration of declining neighborhoods. Along with eminent domain, they spell doom for neighborhoods in which they are allowed to exercise their constitutional rights. They are already beginning to drift away from the bulldozed John St., which no longer offers much cover for johns or prostitutes. A lonely tree is all that is left for them for soliciting. How many hookers can one tree provide shade for? Hookers are drifting further and further into surrounding neighborhoods, neighborhoods where their constitutional rights are not likely to be as protected as they were on John St. About all that’s left standing on John St. is that tree under which smoking prostitutes wait for Johns. Tobacco dwarfs all other drug problems in the U.S., but because it is legal and highly profitable the news media focus on other drugs.
I first began talking to people in the John St. area several years ago. They were reluctant to talk to a stranger, because they feared that they would be targeted for retaliation by the police and the powers-that-be. Many residents had moved out of the area by that time because prostitutes and drug-dealers had moved in, making life impossible for ordinary families. Count on it, there will be near zero tolerance for prostitution and zero support for constitutional rights in the John St. area once ground is broken there for Neal Hatcher’s shopping mall.
One resident of John St. told me several years ago that it appeared to him the police and city officials were turning a blind eye to the prostitution and drug-dealing in that neighborhood because it served developer Neal Hatcher’s purposes. Drugs and prostitutes were being ignored, this resident suspected, because their activities supported Hatcher by driving down property values and driving out residents. If this resident had expressed his views to a Daily Times reporter, I doubt they would have gotten into its pages. When it comes to these kinds of “naked truths” about the over-privileged of Portsmouth, or about the shenanigans of the SOGP, or SSU, or the SOMC, or its other clients, the Daily Times prefers a cover-up, or at best one side of the story.
Exploiting Prostitutes by Protecting Them
The respect that law enforcement officials have for the constitutional rights of the prostitutes of Portsmouth, as reported in the 4-part series, is nothing short of astonishing. Who would have thought that the Portsmouth police department and the local courts were such hotbeds of civil libertarians? If only the police and city officials were as determined to protect the constitutional rights of those who attempt to exercise the right of free speech at city council meetings where citizens are ejected by the dictatorial president of the city council if they so much as mention the name of a particular councilman or a particular developer or a particular lawyer. If only they were as determined to protect the rights of those who attempt to exercise their right to recall elected officials, and of those who offer themselves as candidates in recall elections, as they do to felons who are advised of their right to run for and hold public office by the city clerk and the city solicitor, even when those rights are reportedly misrepresented and misinterpreted.
If there were a Pulitzer prize for cover-up journalism, for not unearthing local corruption and incompetence, for not exposing Portsmouth's prostitution culture, the Daily Times should have won one by now for reporting like that in “Naked Truth.”
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Nick's Career of Musical Chairs
Nick’s now the pride of Lawrence County,
He moved in the band’s van fast.
But how long will this move last
Before he starts throwing chairs,
Before he moves to another county,
In his career of musical chairs?
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Portsmouth, Ohio: Best and Worst
It’s the best of cities,
It’s the worst of cities;
It’s the city of upright people,
The city of the toppled steeple;
It’s the city of the crucifix,
It’s the city of the crucifix,
The city of the cocaine fix;
It’s the city of churches and chimes,
It’s the city of churches and chimes,
The city of the rotten Times;
It’s the city of chronic crisis,
The city of river vices;
It’s the city of piety,
The city of notoriety;
It’s the city of squeaky clean,
It’s the city of the punctual,
The city of the dysfunctional;
It’s the city of the midnight oil,
The city of the wacky Doyle;
The city of blatantly obscene;
It’s the city of the punctual,
The city of the dysfunctional;
It’s the city of the midnight oil,
The city of the wacky Doyle;
It’s the city of concerned citizens,
The city of crooked politicians;
It’s the city of crusading bloggers,
The city of pettifoggers;
It is the city of Christers,
The city of shysters;
It’s the city of floodwalls,
The city of pitfalls;
It’s the city of antique shops,
The city of chop shops;
It’s the city of old coots,
The city of young prostitutes;
It’s the city of work,
The city of shirk;
It’s the city of on-the-go,
The city of who-you-know;
It’s the city of the first brewery,
The city of Mountain Dewery;
It’s the city of blue skies,
The city of meth highs;
It’s the city of hospitals,
The city of pill mills;
It’s the city of aspirin,
The city of Oxycontin;
It’s the city of hope,
The city of dope;
It’s the city of new schools,
The city of old fools;
It’s the city of pork-rind heiresses,
The city of Temponerases;
It’s the city of every kid passes,
The city of remedial classes;
It’s the city of the evangelical,
The city of the ungrammatical;
It’s the city of right principles,
The city of wrong past participles;
It’s the city of drawers and hewers,
The city of backed-up sewers;
It’s the city of live wires,
The city of suspicious fires;
It’s the city of the opera singer,
The city of the slumlord Singer;
It’s the city of black and Jew,
The city of Klan residue;
It’s the city of Scottie’s potties,
The city of Mearan’s hotties;
It’s the city of the father’s dereliction,
The city of son’s addiction;
It’s the city of drug-dealers on the run,
The city of the chief’s drug-dealing son;
It’s the city of the dedicated teacher,
The city of the adulterous preacher;
It’s the city of okey dokey,
The city of kin in pokey;
It’s the city of Meals on Wheels,
The city of drug deals;
It’s the city of whites and blacks,
The city of mansions and shacks;
It’s the city of Good Will,
The city of ill will;
It’s the city of cooked books,
The city of unbooked crooks;
It’s the city of in the tank,
The city of American Savings Bank;
It’s the city of tightening the belt a notch,
The city of the state imposed Fiscal Watch;
It’s the city of solvency,
The city of bankruptcy.
II
It’s the city of the river breeze,
The city of radioactive retirees;
It’s the city of the beauty queen,
The city of the pregnant teen;
The city of the pregnant teen;
It’s the city on the dole,
The city of the doughnut hole;
It’s the city of Crispie Creams,
It’s the city of exercise classes,
The city of fat asses;
It’s the city of Waller and Massie,
The city of sassy lassie;
It’s the city of the Welcome Center to greet you,
The city of estate planners to cheat you;
It’s the city of real bingo halls,
The city of imaginary malls;
It’s the city of Clayton’s tools,
The city of Mearan’s mules;
It’s the city of Kalb gone to pot,
The city of Bihl, who got caught;
It’s the city of Hospice,
The city of injustice;
It’s the city of Pampered Pets,
The city of unlicensed vets;
It’s the city of the opportune knock,
The city of the pilfered rock;
It’s the city of the proud American,
The city of the Ku Klux Klan;
It’s the city of restaurants starting,
The city of prohibited farting;
It’s the city of the appraisal sham,
The city of the Marting scam;
It’s the city of Kalb on his three-wheeler,
The city of the wheeler-dealer;
It’s the city of preacher and parson,
The city of incest and arson;
It’s the city of priest and minister,
The city of lawyers who’re sinister;
It’s the city of winks and nudges,
The city of inebriated judges;
It’s the city of praying for prosperity,
The city of the chronic austerity;
It’s the city of food stamps,
It’s the city of honorable pursuits,
The city of crooks in suits;
It’s the city of flood wall murals,
The city of pork-lined urinals;
It’s the city of Southern hospitality,
The city of redneck hostility;
It’s the city of he who has, gets,
The city of he who hasn’t, bets;
It’s the city of bingo and lottery;
The city of gambling and besottery;
It’s the city of crying need,
The city of Jones’ schemes;
It’s the city of poverty,
The city of obesity;
It’s the city of poverty,
The city of obesity;
It’s the city of exercise classes,
The city of fat asses;
It’s the city of Waller and Massie,
The city of sassy lassie;
It’s the city of the Welcome Center to greet you,
The city of estate planners to cheat you;
It’s the city of real bingo halls,
The city of imaginary malls;
It’s the city of Clayton’s tools,
The city of Mearan’s mules;
It’s the city of Kalb gone to pot,
The city of Bihl, who got caught;
It’s the city of Hospice,
The city of injustice;
It’s the city of Pampered Pets,
The city of unlicensed vets;
It’s the city of the opportune knock,
The city of the pilfered rock;
It’s the city of the proud American,
The city of the Ku Klux Klan;
It’s the city of restaurants starting,
The city of prohibited farting;
It’s the city of the appraisal sham,
The city of the Marting scam;
It’s the city of Kalb on his three-wheeler,
The city of the wheeler-dealer;
It’s the city of preacher and parson,
The city of incest and arson;
It’s the city of priest and minister,
The city of lawyers who’re sinister;
It’s the city of winks and nudges,
The city of inebriated judges;
It’s the city of praying for prosperity,
The city of the chronic austerity;
It’s the city of food stamps,
The city of hungry tramps;
The city of crooks in suits;
It’s the city of flood wall murals,
The city of pork-lined urinals;
It’s the city of Southern hospitality,
The city of redneck hostility;
It’s the city of he who has, gets,
The city of he who hasn’t, bets;
It’s the city of bingo and lottery;
The city of gambling and besottery;
It’s the city of crying need,
The city of undying greed;
It’s the city of speaking in tongues,
The city of smokers’ lungs;
It's the city of scarlet tanagers,
The city of fly-by-night city managers;
It’s the city of bikers collecting for toys,
The city of bikers making too much noise;
It’s the city of victory torches,
The city of sagging porches;
It’s the city of dreams,
The city of schemes;
It’s the city of fame,
The city of shame;
It's the city of two-faced Sallie S,
It's the city of sanctimoniousness;
It's the city of the Counseling Center,
The city of naysayer and assenter;
The city of unctuous and pious ooze,
The city of the Samaritan Ed Hughes;
It’s the city of do-and-dare,
The city of I don’t care;
It’s the city of integrity,
The city of S.O.G.P.;
It’s the city of enough is enough,
Its the city of the fall-guy Huff;
It’s the city of the Master Plan,
The city of the can-can man;
It’s the city of shoes and shoelaces,
The city of heels in high places;
It’s the city of vegetarian fruits,
The city of councilmen in cahoots;
It’s the city of the Golden Rule,
The city of hobbling Home Rule;
It’s the city of the mythic mall,
The city of smokers’ lungs;
It's the city of scarlet tanagers,
The city of fly-by-night city managers;
It’s the city of bikers collecting for toys,
The city of bikers making too much noise;
It’s the city of victory torches,
The city of sagging porches;
It’s the city of dreams,
The city of schemes;
It’s the city of fame,
The city of shame;
It's the city of two-faced Sallie S,
It's the city of sanctimoniousness;
It's the city of the Counseling Center,
The city of naysayer and assenter;
The city of unctuous and pious ooze,
The city of the Samaritan Ed Hughes;
It’s the city of do-and-dare,
The city of I don’t care;
It’s the city of integrity,
The city of S.O.G.P.;
It’s the city of enough is enough,
Its the city of the fall-guy Huff;
It’s the city of the Master Plan,
The city of the can-can man;
It’s the city of shoes and shoelaces,
The city of heels in high places;
It’s the city of vegetarian fruits,
The city of councilmen in cahoots;
It’s the city of the Golden Rule,
The city of hobbling Home Rule;
It’s the city of the mythic mall,
The city of the bingo hall;
It’s the city of churches and chimes,
The city of the lying Times;
It’s the city of churches and chimes,
The city of the lying Times;
It’s the city of the champion of freedom,
The city of Austin Leedom;
The city of Austin Leedom;
It's the city of the doughty Daub,
The city of the redneck Kalb;
The city of the redneck Kalb;
It’s the city of no respect,
The city of Jeff Albrecht;
The city of Jeff Albrecht;
It’s the city of the blessed and cursed,
It’s the city of the best and worst.
Robert Forrey, 2010-2014
Friday, April 05, 2013
Scioto County and the "Portsmouth Boys"
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| Ohio's 88 counties color coded according to health rankings |
Scioto County and
the “Portsmouth Boys”
The health rankings which the Health Policy Institute of Ohio, with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, makes about Ohio's 88 counties, on the basis of available statistics (click
here), is probably about as comprehensive an evaluation of an
Ohio county’s overall health, or quality of life, as we can get. Ohio’s health
rankings, include a lot of categories. It
is based on statistics regarding, among other things—to list them
alphabetically—air quality, alcoholism, diabetes, drug use, exercise, health insurance, junk food, level of education, obesity, poverty, premature death, quality of drinking water, recreational
facilities, sexually transmitted diseases, single parent families, smoking, teen
pregnancy, unemployment, vehicular deaths, and violent crime. If it is not
complete, it covers a whole lot of things, because a whole lot of things affect the health of a
county.
Which Ohio county is first in
the most recent (2013) Health Policy Institute health rankings? Gauega, up in the northeast corner of
the state. (Just as Scioto is a native American word, meaning deer, Gauega is also a native American word, meaning raccoon.)
I had never heard of Gauega until I saw it ranked as the healthiest county in Ohio. In 2008, Forbes magazine rated Gauega the fourth
best county in which to raise a family, fourth not in Ohio but in all of America.
Which Ohio county is at the
bottom of the most recent health rankings? If you haven’t already heard, and
you’re from Scioto County, you might be able to guess which county is 88th. Yes, Scioto County. When
all the categories are averaged out, Scioto is at the bottom. Why? No one
factor could account for why. There are lots of factors—economic, cultural, ethnographic,
political— some of which go way back in time.
Scioto County’s economic
problems are profound, and the chronically depressed economy may be the most
important reason why it is at the bottom
of the health rankings. After the Second
World War, the development of the so-called global economy led to the wholesale migration of American industries
abroad, where the cost of labor and raw materials were much cheaper. The global
economy was the death knell for the industries in south-central Ohio,
particularly for the steel and shoe industries of Scioto Country. But the
cultural, ethnographic, and political factors worsened the county’s economic problems.
From my observations of almost a
quarter century residency, the culture in southern Ohio, usually called Appalachian,
is exclusionary rather than inclusionary, collusive rather than competitive. The
people tend to be independent but not especially industrious, to be creative and colorful but not particularly enterprising. Clayton Johnson was reportedly overheard to say the locals never learned how to use alarm clocks. The culture
of south-central Ohio tends to keep everything in the family, using the term family
in its broadest sense. That culture is distrustful
of outsiders, to new ideas and methods. It is, in the language of anthropology,
endogamous, which is the tendency to
marry within the group, as opposed to exogamous,
the tendency to marry outside the group. But “married,” sociologically speaking,
means keeping things within the group, not just the family, and not just women
but opportunities and advantages, and especially in the last half century, the
money and pork government provides to the poor and unemployed of Appalachia. If Grapes of Wrath dramatizes the
predicament of the Oakies in the Great Depression, Taps for Private Tussie (click here) does the same for Appalachians in the early
1940s, during the Second World War.
Portsmouth Boys
The “Portsmouth Boy,” to borrow
a term from Frank Lewis, is at the apex of the endogamous, if not incestuous, culture of Scioto County. Economically and
politically, rich, gray-haired Portsmouth Boys control Portsmouth, the county seat. Because of chronic depression, Scioto
County has been on the dole, directly and indirectly, for about a half century.
The Portsmouth Boys decide for what and to whom government money is distributed.
The Marting Foundation is the most influential and notorious of the local
private organizations distributing government money.
The Scioto County Welcome Center
is the unofficial city hall created by and for the Portsmouth Boys with government money. I liken it to the social clubs that
the Mafia (who play poker instead of bingo) created in lower Manhattan (where I once
lived). The social clubs were fronts for rackets and for the laundering of
money derived from those rackets. The Scioto County Welcome Center laundered government money. Bob Huff was chief executive officer
of the Welcome Center, but he was not a Portsmouth Boy and he ended up being
the fall guy who was blamed when the racketeering
and the laundering of government money came to light.
On the day the new Grant Bridge was
opened in October 2006 (click here), after taking longer to build than the Golden Gate Bridge,
the cut-up Steve Hayes reported on WNXT that Bob Huff was outside giving
passing motorists the finger (a photo shows Huff waving, not giving the bird, as
if he was taking credit for the bridge). Bob Huff, not a Portsmouth Boy, was the one who ended up getting the finger
after which he got out of town, pending prosecution, assuming that ever happens.
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| Bob Huff waving, before he got the finger |
“He Who Pisses”
Instead of Scioto, an Indian
word meaning deer, a more appropriate native name for the county might be, Squunck, a native word for skunk. Squunck
means, literally “he who pisses,” which is what the former redneck mayor Jim
Kalb said I was not worthy of—not worthy of being pissed on. Our current black, philandering,
unelected mayor, the Rev. David Malone, is not much better. Both of them in
their parasitical careers, have declared bankruptcy, a fact that Frank Lewis,
of the Daily (except Mondays) Times (PDT), does not mention. Kalb and Malone are
just the kind of unsuccessful Portsmouth Boys, the kind of moral bankrupts,
that the rich Portsmouth Boys help get elected to public office. Kalb and
Malone, the dregs of the Portsmouth Boys, found in public office a refuge from
the shame and failure of their insignificant lives, failure being the unpardonable sin of American life. Kalb
would have long ago been fired from Kroger’s, where he was a lowly grocery
clerk, if it had not been for the protection provided by the Teamsters, the
union founded by a former Cincinnati Kroger
employee, Jimmy Hoffa. Kalb’s second wife at one time got a restraining order
against him. If only we could take out restraining orders against the rich Portsmouth Boys. That might at least
begin to improve the health, the quality
of life, in Scioto County.
The impassioned Austin Leedom’s has
denounced the most recent general manager of the PDT, Mike Messerly, as a tool
of the Portsmouth Boys. Since he is not a Portsmouth Boy himself, Messerly’s
job is no more secure than was that of any of his many predecessors. Although it is only a shadow of what it once was, the local
media, with Steve Hayes blatantly at WNXT and Frank Lewis more insinuatingly at
PDT, have been instrumental in helping the rich Portsmouth Boys remain in control of the county and city. The consequence
of the rich Portsmouth Boys remaining in control is that Scioto
County will remain 88th, at the bottom of Ohio’s health rankings and we will
continue to live in Skunk Holler. The county map above, with the color coding,
shows that most of the bottom tier of the counties are concentrated in south-central
Ohio, with Scioto (abbreviated SC) at the bottom of the map and in the rankings (see below), suggesting what
part of the human anatomy it is analogous to. In Scioto County we are married
not to the Mob but to the Portsmouth Boys.
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| Ohio County Health Ranking |
Monday, March 25, 2013
THIRD STREET: HATCHER'S MASTER PLAN
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| Hatcher giving us the finger on Third Street |
The closing of Third Street is part of Hatcher's Master Plan for the university. I expect the university to incorporate 4th Street in the future, as part of that same plan. He already owns student dormitories on 4th Street, and he has also been buying property east of the SSU campus, the lebensraum, as it could be called, which is the direction the university will grow. Under the arrangement Hatcher has worked out with the university and city, the financial risks involved in the expansion of the campus are borne by the city and university, and ultimately by tax payers. If the occupancy rate of his dormitories falls below 92 percent, he will be reimbursed for the difference. And when his dormitories begin to age, and maintenance costs rise, he or his heirs, will be able to exercise the provision of the contract that allows him to sell them to a private party or to the university. As a developer, by buying property cheap and selling it dear, Hatcher has made a fortune capitalizing on Portsmouth's chronic poverty. He would not have been able to do it if he did not have the politicians in city government in his pocket. As long as the city government remains corrupt, Hatcher and people like him will continue to capitalize on the city's chronic poverty. As in many other streets in the city, Hatcher is giving the citizens of Portsmouth the finger on Third Street.
Further reading: "Student Housing Shenanigans" (click here).
Further reading: "Student Housing Shenanigans" (click here).
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410 GAY ST
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CITY MID PT 38 X 64
LOT 580
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320642000
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1712 12TH ST
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TURLEY PT EA. 29FT
11IN X 131F
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||||
300135000
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906 8TH ST
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BARR E PT 32FT 6IN X
107FT 3IN
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||||
321672000
|
1718 12TH ST
|
TURLEY PT EA 29FT 11IN
X 131FT
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||||
321031000
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1523 3RD ST
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DAMARIN WHOLE 31 X
111FT 9IN L
| ||||
300658000
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102
3 4TH ST
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P B + S S PT E 1/2 32
X 91 LOT
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||||
321598000
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1525 JACKSON ST
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BANK WHOLE 30 X 166FT
9IN LOT
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||||
300653000
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1406 2ND ST
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THOMPSON MID 30 X 120
LOT 63-6
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||||
300652000
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2 GLOVER ST
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THOMPSON W 27 X 120
LOT 63-67
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||||
320383000
|
1507 4TH ST
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DAMARIN WHOLE 35 X
111FT 9IN L
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||||
300020000
|
946 4TH ST
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P B + S W 1/2, 30 X
107FT 3IN
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||||
300477000
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605 OFFNERE ST
|
GLOVER FRONT PT, 40FT
1IN X 88
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||||
321248000
|
1553 6TH ST
|
MADDOCK WHOLE 25 X
111FT 8IN L
|
||||
300074000
|
829 10TH ST
|
BARR E 1/2 LOT 174 W
1/2 LOT
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||||
271496000
|
0 LARKIN ST
|
HILLSDALE AMEND PT
31.8 X 66 L
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||||
301004000
|
923 FINDLAY ST
|
BARR WH EACH 112 X 115
LOT 130
|
||||
301218000
|
1014 4TH ST
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P B + S W PT 35 X
107FT 3IN LO
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||||
301208000
|
1315 3RD ST
|
GLOVER TRACT 89 29.56
X 98
|
||||
300157000
|
945 4TH ST
|
P B + S WH. EACH 240FT
X 164FT
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||||
320549000
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1662 12TH ST
|
TURLEY WHOLE 35 X
131FT 2IN LO
|
||||
332727000
|
3118 NORTH HILL RD
|
INDIAN HILL SUB 68.18
X 180.07
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||||
301056000
|
10TH ST
|
BARR MID PT 20 X 132
LOT 90
|
||||
300626000
|
1006 4TH ST
|
P B + S E PT 28 X
107FT 3IN LO
|
||||
310460000
|
1245 COLES BLVD
|
JOHNSON WHOLE 80 X 184
LOT 9-
|
||||
310013000
|
0 ALTAMONT AVE
|
FRAC N. S. BLVD. 20 X
40 RTS 2
|
||||
300702000
|
8 UNION ST
|
THOMPSON N 1/2 33 X
124 LOT 33
|
||||
321528000
|
0 CLAY ST
|
SKELTON + VAC. ALLEY
REAR PT.
|
||||
301007000
|
918 FINDLAY ST
|
BARR S PT MID 33FT 8IN
X 64 LO
|
||||
310821000
|
1245 COLES BLVD
|
JOHNSON W 62 X
157'6" 54.7 X
|
||||
300419000
|
936 4TH ST
|
P B + S E 1/2, 30 X
107FT 3IN
|
||||
301002000
|
1411 6TH ST
|
GLOVER E PT 34FT 4IN X
121 LOT
|
||||
332694000
|
0 INDIAN DR
|
INDIAN HILLS (SUB OF
LOT 56) 2
| ||||
300565000
|
21 GLOVER ST
|
THOMPSON WHOLE 66 X
124 LOT 46
|
||||
300140000
|
1318 4TH ST
|
GLOVER TRACT 64 30 X
109
|
||||
310672000
|
2612 SUNRISE AVE
|
HENRY GALLENSTEIN
WHOLE 51.88/
|
||||
300536000
|
1116 10TH ST
|
BARR W 1/2, 35 X 132
LOT 89
|
||||
320859000
|
212 OFFNERE ST
|
DAMARIN MID PT 35 X
109FT 6IN
|
||||
320015000
|
1658 12TH ST
|
TURLEY WH 35 X
131'2" LOT 16 M
|
||||
300513001
|
4 UNION ST
|
THOMPSON 33 X 62.17
FT. AC. .0
|
||||
312179000
|
1231 COLES BLVD
|
JOHNSON WHOLE 40 X 184
LOT 8
|
||||
300672001
|
1026 FINDLAY ST
|
BARR L 106 MAP 24-001
|
||||
331257000
|
1816 GRANDVIEW AVE
|
R + H WHOLE 32 X 120
LOT 5
|
||||
300821000
|
916 FINDLAY ST
|
BARR S PT 33 X 64 LOT
83
|
||||
300508000
|
14 UNION ST
|
THOMPSON N PT 33 X 124
LOT 37
|
||||
311397000
|
1253 COLES BLVD
|
FRAC N SIDE OF BLVD.
60 X 120
|
||||
301040000
|
1113 9TH ST
|
BARR E PT 33 X 132 LOT
77
|
||||
300904000
|
1401 6TH ST
|
GLOVER W PT 30 X 121
LOT 14-15
|
||||
320293000
|
210 OFFNERE ST
|
DAMARIN PT EA 35 X
109FT 6IN L
|
||||
300443000
|
817 10TH ST
|
BARR WHOLE 40 X 132
LOT 176
|
||||
300949000
|
614 GLOVER ST
|
GLOVER PT EACH 25 X
128FT 4IN
|
||||
301241000
|
837 10TH ST
|
BARR E 1/2 25 X 132
LOT 172
|
||||
300480000
|
19 GLOVER ST
|
THOMPSON N PT 21FT 5IN
X 124 L
|
||||
300967000
|
833 11TH ST
|
BARR WH. LOT 193 W.
PT. LOT 19
|
||||
300709000
|
1312 4TH ST
|
GLOVER TRACT 62 42FT
9IN X
|
||||
300616000
|
1412 2ND ST
|
THOMPSON MID PT 30 X
120 LOT 6
|
||||
301215000
|
1311 2ND ST
|
THOMPSON PT EACH 50 X
150 LOT
|
||||
300172000
|
8 GLOVER ST
|
THOMPSON ALL LOT
35-39-43-47 W
|
||||
301248000
|
1420 2ND ST
|
THOMPSON MID PT 45 X
120 LOT 6
|
||||
312043000
|
1214 JOHNSON ST
|
JOHNSON WHOLE 80 X
157FT 6IN L
|
||||
300352000
|
120 GLOVER ST
|
THOMPSON PT EA 22FT
2IN X 132
|
||||
300034000
|
1235 3RD ST
|
H. WALLER PT EA 28 X
107FT 3IN
|
||||
300542000
|
1005 4TH ST
|
PB+S ALL LOT 68+69+70
PT LOT
|
||||
301042000
|
1416 2ND ST
|
THOMPSON E PT LOT
63-67 W PT L
|
||||
300670000
|
1120 10TH ST
|
BARR E 1/2, 35 X 132
LOT 89
|
||||
321788000
|
218 OFFNERE ST
|
DAMARIN N PT EA 35 X
139FT 6IN
|
||||
300399000
|
1025 9TH ST
|
BARR WHOLE 64 X 132
LOT 79
|
||||
290911000
|
713 6TH ST
|
CITY E 1/4 41FT 2IN X
107FT 3I
|
||||
300513000
|
0 WHEELING ST
|
THOMPSON S 1/2 33 X 62
LO
|
||||
300764000
|
110 GLOVER ST
|
THOMPSON MID PT 26 X 132
LOT 5
|
||||
290558000
|
2310 ARGONNE
|
ARLINGTON WHOLE 34FT
6IN X 110
|
||||
300762000
|
112 GLOVER ST
|
THOMPSON N PT 28 X 132
LOT 55
|
||||
290176000
|
2312 ARGONNE
|
ARLINGTON WHOLE 35 X
110FT 1IN
|
||||
290345000
|
907 29TH ST
|
NOEL #2 WHOLE 38FT 6IN
X 123 L
|
||||
301297000
|
918 8TH ST
|
BARR W. PT.LOT 621 E.
PT. LOT
|
||||
301159000
|
411 SINTON AVE
|
P B + S S PT 39FT 2IN
X 32 LOT
|
||||
311762000
|
1044 NOEL DR
|
BLD HTS. WH EACH IRR.
225.69 X
|
||||
321897000
|
1554 CHARLES ST
|
LAND ON JACKSON AVE.
.20 A. RT
|
||||
300388000
|
910 8TH ST
|
BARR W 1/2 41FT 3IN X
107FT 3I
|
||||
300956000
|
815 10TH ST
|
BARR E. PT. W. PT. 40
X 132 LO
|
||||
320166000
|
1644 6TH ST
|
GREEN W PT, 22 X
111FT9IN LOT
|
||||
300742000
|
1129 9TH ST
|
BARR W 1/2 35 X 132
LOT 74
|
||||
301053001
|
11TH ST
|
BARR PT 25 X 132 LOT
188 MAP
|
||||
301162000
|
1017 GAY ST
|
BARR WH 100 X 132 LOT
189-190
|
||||
310650000
|
22ND ST
|
WILLIAMSON REAR PT.
35.9 X 2
|
||||
310649000
|
2208 SCIOTO TRAIL
|
RIVERVIEW PART 55 X
142.41 L
|
||||
310087000
|
2220 SCIOTO TRAIL
|
RIVERVIEW N PT OF EACH
140FT 8
|
||||
Campus View Associates
| Current Owner | Parcel ID | Address | Legal |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATED LLC | 300897000 | 500 3RD ST | P B + S 103 X 123FT 9IN LOT |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 300171000 | 1131 4TH ST | GREEN PT LOT 3 WH LOT 2 PT LOT |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 300494000 | 800 3RD ST | KEHOE 115.18FT X 107FT 3 IN |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 301225001 | 1135 3RD ST | COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT START 2 |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 300562001 | 1117 4TH ST | COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT START 2 |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 300002000 | 417 WALLER ST | B + G WHOLE 28 X 125FT 3IN |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 300268000 | 1106 4TH ST | P B + S ALL LOT 10 W PT LOT 9 |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 300283000 | 420 WALLER ST | TERRY S PT EACH 30 X 110 LOT 1 |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 301176000 | 1126 4TH ST | RIGGS + MEANS LOT 2-3-PT LOT |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 300876000 | 1201 4TH ST | TERRY W PT 60 X 135 LOT 18 |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 300137000 | 1142 4TH ST | KEHOE W PT 33FT 1IN X 107FT 3I |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 300416000 | 1106 4TH ST | P B + S PT EA 45 X 107FT 3IN L |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 301037000 | 1025 3RD ST | P B + S ALL LOT 49 & E PT LOT |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 300805000 | 1141 4TH ST | GREEN PT LOT 1 13.5X140 B & |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 300257000 | 600 3RD ST | P B +S PT LOT 46-47 90 FT X |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 300562000 | 1121 4TH ST | GREEN 113.50 X 140 PT LOT 5 WH |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 301052001 | 1109 3RD ST | COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT 10 YEAR |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 300644000 | 1140 4TH ST | KEHOE WHOLE 50FT 1IN X 107FT 3 |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 300170000 | 416 WALLER ST | TERRY S PT 30 X 110 LOT 14 |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 300117001 | 1005 3RD ST | COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT 15 YRS |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 300279000 | 1134 4TH ST | KEHOE WHOLE 27 X 107FT 3IN LOT |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 301052000 | 400 3RD ST | P B + S LOT 48 86 X 123FT 9 |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 301202000 | 413 WALLER ST | B + G WHOLE 28 X 125FT 3IN LOT |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 300721000 | 943 3RD ST | P B S 28 X 123FT 9IN LOT 53-54 |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 300494001 | 1145 3RD ST | COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT START 2 |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 301225000 | 700 3RD ST | PB&S PT LOT 46 KEHOE LOT 5 11 |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 300117000 | 100-200 3RD ST | P B + S PT LOT 50 WHOLE LOT 51 |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 301262000 | 1026 4TH ST | P B + S E PT LOT 64 AND ALL LO |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 301292001 | 1011 3RD ST | COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT 15 YRS |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 300257001 | 1123 3RD ST | COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT 10 YEAR |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 301065000 | 949 3RD ST | P B + S E PT 52 X 123FT 9IN LO |
| CAMPUS VIEW ASSOCIATES LLC | 300340000 | 1130 4TH ST | P B + S WHOLE 50 X 107FT 3IN L |
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