Sabbatical

As announced in the previous posting, I am taking a sabbatical of about six months to devote more time to several other projects. I am providing, below, links to twenty-five earlier postings from the hundreds I have written about Portsmouth over the past four and a half years.

• "Digital Revolution," July, 2004.
• "Jesse Stuart's Ohio," Dec. 2004.
• "Recall of Mayor Bauer," March 2005.
• "Scioto Cesspool," April 2005.
• "Gutter Politics," June 2005.
• "Prayer" [David Malone], June 2005.
• "Adelphia Building," July 2005.
• "Hatchered" [Neal Hatcher], Aug. 2005.
• "Prostitution Culture," Oct. 2005.
• "Downtown Portsmouth," Oct. 2005.
  
• "Lord, Help Us!" [Timothy Loper], Nov. 2005.
• "Double Cross" [Cornerstone Methodist Church], Dec. 2005.
• "The Blogosphere," Dec. 2005.
• "Estate Planning Scam," Dec. 2005.
• "Police State" [Chief Horner] Feb. 2006.
• "Porksmouth," March 2006.
  
• "Southern Ohio Growth Partnership," April 2006.
• "Shadow Government" [SOGP], May 2006.
• "Political Puppets" [City Council], August 2006.
• "The Finger" [Neal Hatcher], Sept. 2006.
• "Gambling," Nov. 2007.
• "Trial of Harald Daub," March 2009.
• "Kiwanis Playground," Sept. 2009.
• "Kalb: Burning the Midnight Oil," Sept. 2009.

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Resolutions

New Year’s Resolutions We Wish Kalb had Made and Kept

1) I will not be lazy.

2) I will not be incompetent.

3) I will not be quarrelsome.

4) I will not whine.

5) I will not be a lapdog.

6) I will not drive to Kentucky in an official car for cigarettes and lottery tickets.

7) I will not blame my terrible reputation on a few “malcontents.”

8) I will not leave my successor a half million dollar deficit.

9) I will not create fraudulent public records to cover my ass.

10) I will not gain international notoriety as an ignorant, foulmouthed redneck.








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