TRASH TALK: THE RAT AND THE UNELECTED MAYOR

The Rat and the Unelected Mayor

The new post can be found on River Vices 2, at

http://rivervices2.blogspot.com/2013/06/trash-talk-rat-and-unelected-mayor.html

All Aboard the Twentieth Century Limited!

To read a new post on Kevin W. Johnson and city government, click here.

Kevin W. Johnson: Selling Out

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Duncan's Brain

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.

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.

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

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. 

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. 

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.”

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.”

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?

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,

The city of the cocaine fix;

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,

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;

It’s the city on the dole,

The city of the doughnut hole;

It’s the city of Crispie Creams,

The city of Jones’ schemes;

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;

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 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 the bingo hall;

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;

It's the city of the doughty Daub,
The city of the redneck Kalb;

It’s the city of no respect,
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

Scioto County and the "Portsmouth Boys"

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.

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.

Ohio County Health Ranking

THIRD STREET: HATCHER'S MASTER PLAN

Hatcher giving us the finger on Third Street

   

     Below are the some 220 Portsmouth  properties owned by Neal Hatcher and associates as of this date (3/25/2013). Some dozen of those properties,  indicated in red below, are located on 3rd Street. However, because of front corporations, the auditor's list of Hatcher properties on Third and other streets is far from complete. For example it does not include the dozen or so SSU student dormitories that Hatcher owns, through  Campus View Associates, which I have listed below, those on Third Street highlighted in red.

     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).

Current Owner		Parcel ID		Address		Legal
HATCHER J NEAL + VICKY A		300203000		1412 GALLIA ST		GLOVER WHOLE 35 X 150 LOT 4
HATCHER J NEAL + VICKY A		312267000		1400 COLES AVE		LOTS 11 THRU 19 35 THRU 48 +
HATCHER J NEAL + VICKY A		290689000		7TH ST		CITY PT VAC VINE-SPRUCE ALLEY
HATCHER J NEAL + VICKY A		300566000		1242 4TH ST		H. WALLER E PT 30 X 107FT 3IN
HATCHER J NEAL + VICKY A		300441000		1326 4TH ST		GLOVER TRACT 66-67 49 X 111
HATCHER J NEAL + VICKY A		300791000		612 GLOVER ST		GLOVER MID PT 20FT 10IN X 128F
HATCHER J NEAL + VICKY A		300392000		1400 GALLIA ST		GLOVER WHOLE 93FT 4IN X 100/13
HATCHER J NEAL + VICKY J/S		290344000		901 9TH ST		NOEL #2 WH 41'5" X 123 LOT 9
HATCHER JENNIFER		330046000		2817 WILLOW WAY		FOREST PARK WHOLE 62 X 120 LOT
HATCHER JENNIFER		290103000		409 CHILLICOTHE ST		CITY N PT 33 X 165 LOT 135-13
HATCHER JENNIFER		311305000		1062 28TH ST		HERMANN LOT 32 40X131.2 + NOEL
HATCHER JENNIFER		330159000		0 DORMAN DR		DORMAN TERRACE 150 X 112.52 LO
HATCHER JENNIFER A		310798000		1517 FRANKLIN AVE		HIGH WHOLE 37 X 120 LOT 116
HATCHER JOE NEAL + VICKY ANN J/S		311233000		1249 COLES BLVD		RTS 21-1-8 FRAC N SIDE OF BLVD
HATCHER NEAL		330373000		2109 GRANT ST		MOUND WHOLE 35 X 136FT 3IN LOT
HATCHER NEAL	300576000		1010 4TH ST		P B + S W 1/2 32 X 107FT 3IN L
HATCHER NEAL & VICKY	301172000		944 4TH ST		P B + S E 1/2 30 X 107FT 3IN L
HATCHER NEAL + VICKI	300295000		1223 3RD ST		WALLER EST. PT LOT 4-5 41FT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKI	310231000		1227 COLES BLVD		JOHNSON WHOLE 40 X 184 LOT 7
HATCHER NEAL + VICKIE	330571000		1602 FRANKLIN AVE		HIGHLAND FRONT PT 33FT 3IN X 6
HATCHER NEAL + VICKIE	311831000		1611 HIGHLAND AVE		LOREN W 1/2 25FT 9IN X 110FT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKIE	321481000		1717 11TH ST		TURLEY E 1/2 LOT 25 ALL LOT 24
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301245000		833 10TH ST		BARR E 1/2, 25 X 132 LOT 173
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301064000		1207 3RD ST		WALLER EST. PT LOT 5 25 X 1
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300793000		1130 10TH ST		BARR W 1/2 35 X 132 LOT 91
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301089000		119 OFFNERE ST		THOMPSON PT 22FT 11 1/2 IN X 1
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301079000		416 GAY ST		CITY N PT LOT 580, REAR LOT 60
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301479000		0 GALLIA ST		P B S 30/19.01 X 111.05/67.67/
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	320651000		1522 JACKSON ST		DAWSON E PT LOT 10, W PT LOT 1
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300642000		1316 3RD ST		THOMPSON PT EA 56FT 10 1/2IN X
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300846000		920 JOHN ST		BARR MID PT W PT LOT 88 MID PT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	332151000		1909 TIMMONDS AVE		TIMMONDS WHOLE 37 X 124 LOT 17
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	330644000		1706 HIGHLAND AVE		HIGHLAND W. PT. 32FT 6IN X 120
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301119000		118 GLOVER ST		THOMPSON PT 22FT 3IN X 132 LOT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300339000		928 JOHN ST		BARR N PT 27 X 105 LOT 87-88
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301216000		2ND ST		THOMPSON MID PT 50 X 150 LOT 7
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	332719000		3124 NORTH HILL RD		INDIAN HILLS SUB 73.04 X 160.0
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	310336000		1635 ROBINSON AVE		LOREN PT.EA. 34FT 10IN X 144 L
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300246000		937 3RD ST		P B + S PT EACH 34 X 123FT 9IN
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	320148000		1712 CHARLES ST		NORWOOD WHOLE 35 X 100 LOT 66
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300543000		1426 3RD ST		THOMPSON E PT 32 X 117 LOT 80-
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	331000000		1519 HIGH ST		MOUND WHOLE 36FT 6IN X 115 LOT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300019000		1424 3RD ST		THOMPSON PT EA 32 X 117 LOT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	321824000		1716 CHARLES ST		NORWOOD WHOLE 35 X 100 LOT 64
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300940000		1015 GALLIA ST		SALTER ADD. E. PT LOT 7 W. PT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300177000		121 OFFNERE ST		THOMPSON MID PT S PT 27FT 6 1/
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301244000		319 OFFNERE ST		GLOVER TRACT 74 37FT 1IN X
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300479000		13 GLOVER ST		THOMPSON PT EACH 33 X 124 LOT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	321496000		1708 12TH ST		TURLEY PT EA 29FT 11IN X 131FT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	310838000		1662 HIGHLAND AVE		ON HIGHLAND AVE. 21 X 110 RTS
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300691002		1010 GALLIA ST		COMMUNITY RE-INVESTMENT 15 YR
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	321687000		1661 11TH ST		TURLEY WHOLE 35 X 130 LOT 30
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300475000		927 3RD ST		P B + S W 1/2 26FT 6IN X 123FT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	330031000		2006 KINNEYS LN		MICK. IMP. CO. WHOLE LOT 13 W
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300440000		1109 9TH ST		BARR W PT 37 X 132 LOT 77
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301081000		1418 6TH ST		GLOVER WHOLE 35 X 128FT 4IN LO
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	320163000		1702 12TH ST		TURLEY W PT 29FT11IN X 131FT 2
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301280000		1305 2ND ST		THOMPSON E. PT. LOT 73 E. PT.
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300511000		9 GLOVER ST		THOMPSON WHOLE LOT 34 S PTLOT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300643000		3 GLOVER ST		THOMPSON PT 46FT 3IN X 109FT 3
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	320257000		1523 JACKSON ST		DAMARIN PT 25 X 171.25 LOT 95
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	273456000		226 WARREN AVE		COLES PARK WHOLE EA 150 X 150
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300900000		1115 9TH ST		BARR W 1/2, 35 X 132 LOT 76
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	322073000		1742 11TH ST		HUTCHINS WHOLE 34 X 146 LOT 12
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300319000		1321 2ND ST		THOMPSON E PT 60 X 150 LOT 70-
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301300000		940 GALLIA ST		P B + S W 1/2 30 X 184 LOT 77
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300360000		1165 9TH ST		HUTCHINS PT. OF LOT 54 23FT 6I
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300113000		940 4TH ST		P B + S W 1/2, 30 X 107FT 3IN
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	321744000		1721 11TH ST		HUTCHINS WHOLE 35 X 130 LOT 10
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	321220000		1003 CLAY ST		SKELTON FRONT PT. 67.88 X 102
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	332002000		1822 GRANDVIEW AVE		R + H WHOLE 32 X 120 LOT 7
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300270000		920 FINDLAY ST		BARR N PT + MID PT 33FT 8IN X
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300688000		920 8TH ST		BARR W 1/2 27FT 6IN X 107FT 3I
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300845000		924 JOHN ST		BARR SO. PT 39 X 105 LOT 87-88
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300143000		314 WALLER ST		WALLER LOT 19 TERRY EXT PT LOT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300425000		914 8TH ST		BARR MID PT 27FT 6IN X 107FT 3
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300382000		17 GLOVER ST		THOMPSON MID PT. 21FT 5IN X 12
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	320637000		1748 11TH ST		HUTCHINS WHOLE 35FT 6IN X 146
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300763000		114 GLOVER ST		THOMPSON S 1/2 33 X 132 LOT 59
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	310372000		1225 COLES BLVD		JOHNSON WHOLE 40 X 184 LOT 6
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301157000		122 GLOVER ST		THOMPSON PT 22FT 1 1/2IN X 132
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	273458000		0 WARREN AVE		COLES PARK WHOLE 50 X 150 LOT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300649000		415 SINTON AVE		P B + S N PT 34FT 5IN X 32 LOT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300523001		1120 4TH ST		COMMUNITY RE-INVESTMENT 15 YEA
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300169000		1012 4TH ST		P B + S E 1/2 32 X 107FT 3IN L
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300086000		108 GLOVER ST		THOMPSON PT EA 26 X 132 LOT 51
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301103000		922 8TH ST		BARR E 1/2 41FT 3IN X 107FT 3I
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300667000		1105 9TH ST		BARR PART 32FT 6IN X 132 LOT 7
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300577000		938 GALLIA ST		P B + S E PT 40 X 178 LOT 76
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	321645000		1530 3RD ST		BANK WHOLE 40 X 166FT 9IN LOT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300691001		0 BOND ST		P B & S S 100 OF LOT 79-80 S 1
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	330787000		1815 SUMMIT ST		R + H WHOLE 32 X 120 LOT 23
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	310588000		1201 24TH ST		SUNNYSIDE W.PT. 35FT 6IN X 203
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301116000		825 10TH ST		BARR W 1/2 25 X 132 LOT 174
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	320962000		1531 3RD ST		BANK ALL LOT 17, PT LOT 18,
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	273672000		29 STOCKHAM HILL RD		HILLSDALE PT 91-92 42X107 68/8
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300031000		934 4TH ST		P B + S W 1/2, 30 X 107FT 3IN
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300662000		1229 3RD ST		H. WALLER MID PT 30 X 107 LOT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300149000		1208 4TH ST		WALLER EST. PT LOT 5 29FT 6
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	320961000		1527 3RD ST		BANK WHOLE 30 X 111FT 9IN LOT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301246000		614 GLOVER ST		GLOVER N PT 35 X 128FT 4IN LOT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300563000		918 JOHN ST		BARR S PT OF EACH 33 X 140 LOT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	332389000		1903 ROBINSON AVE		HOME PT EA 24 X 111FT 8IN LOT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	332725000		0 NORTH HILL RD		INDIAN HILL SUBD PT NE COR 20
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	331126000		1611 GRANDVIEW AVE		H + S S PT 33 X 133FT 6IN LOT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300211000		318 CHILLICOTHE ST		CITY N PT 18FT 2IN X 130 LOT 5
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	330745000		1818 GRANDVIEW AVE		R + H WHOLE 32 X 120 LOT 6
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300550000		1220 4TH ST		WALLER EST PT. LOT 5, 50 X
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300660000		948 4TH ST		P B + S PT E 1/2 30 X 107FT 3I
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300672000		11TH ST		PT VAC ALLEY MORGAN PT LOT 113
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301282000		1224 4TH ST		H WALLER WHOLE 38 X 107FT 3IN
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300350000		423 WALLER ST		B + G PT EA 55 X 125FT 4IN LOT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300139000		1316 4TH ST		GLOVER TRACT 63 12 X 109
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300710000		1316 4TH ST		GLOVER TRACT 63 24FT X 111F
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300851000		1415 6TH ST		GLOVER PT EA. 40 X 66FT 6IN LO
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	330507000		1524 HIGH ST		MOUND 36FT 6IN X 115 LOT 149
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300691000		1010 GALLIA ST		P B & S N PT LOT 79-80 N PT E
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300651000		2ND ST		THOMPSON E PT 30 X 104 LOT 63-
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301239000		1004 4TH ST		P B + S W PT 36 X 107FT 3IN LO
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300042000		11 GLOVER ST		THOMPSON MID PT 49FT 8IN X 124
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	311079000		1220 JOHNSON ST		JOHNSON WHOLE 40 X 157FT 6IN L
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	321060000		1746 11TH ST		HUTCHINS WHOLE 34 X 146 LOT 12
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300871000		1124 10TH ST		BARR W PT 30 X 132 LOT 90
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300675000		1018 11TH ST		MORGAN PT EA + VAC ALLEY 115.7
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300941000		1021 GALLIA ST		SALTER ADD. ALL LOT 9 E PT L
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301275000		1147 9TH ST		HUTCHINS W PT LOT 48 ALL LOT 4
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300537000		1114 10TH ST		BARR N PT, E PT 35/25 X 99 LOT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300245000		902 8TH ST		BARR WEST PT 50 X 107FT 3IN LO
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300079000		821 10TH ST		BARR WHOLE 50 X 132 LOT 175
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	291046000		2129 ARGONNE		TRAILTON WHOLE 40 X 150 LOT 47
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	310824000		1245 COLES BLVD		FRAC. N. S. BLVD. 80 X 269 RTS
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301047000		1128 10TH ST		BARR E PT 20 X 132 LOT 90
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300523000		1116 4TH ST		RIGGS + MEANS & PB S PT LOT 4
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300259000		410 GAY ST		CITY MID PT 38 X 64 LOT 580
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	320642000		1712 12TH ST		TURLEY PT EA. 29FT 11IN X 131F
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300135000		906 8TH ST		BARR E PT 32FT 6IN X 107FT 3IN
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	321672000		1718 12TH ST		TURLEY PT EA 29FT 11IN X 131FT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	321031000		1523 3RD ST		DAMARIN WHOLE 31 X 111FT 9IN L
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300658000		102 3 4TH ST		P B + S S PT E 1/2 32 X 91 LOT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	321598000		1525 JACKSON ST		BANK WHOLE 30 X 166FT 9IN LOT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300653000		1406 2ND ST		THOMPSON MID 30 X 120 LOT 63-6
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300652000		2 GLOVER ST		THOMPSON W 27 X 120 LOT 63-67
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	320383000		1507 4TH ST		DAMARIN WHOLE 35 X 111FT 9IN L
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300020000		946 4TH ST		P B + S W 1/2, 30 X 107FT 3IN
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300477000		605 OFFNERE ST		GLOVER FRONT PT, 40FT 1IN X 88
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	321248000		1553 6TH ST		MADDOCK WHOLE 25 X 111FT 8IN L
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300074000		829 10TH ST		BARR E 1/2 LOT 174 W 1/2 LOT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	271496000		0 LARKIN ST		HILLSDALE AMEND PT 31.8 X 66 L
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301004000		923 FINDLAY ST		BARR WH EACH 112 X 115 LOT 130
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301218000		1014 4TH ST		P B + S W PT 35 X 107FT 3IN LO
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301208000		1315 3RD ST		GLOVER TRACT 89 29.56 X 98
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300157000		945 4TH ST		P B + S WH. EACH 240FT X 164FT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	320549000		1662 12TH ST		TURLEY WHOLE 35 X 131FT 2IN LO
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	332727000		3118 NORTH HILL RD		INDIAN HILL SUB 68.18 X 180.07
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301056000		10TH ST		BARR MID PT 20 X 132 LOT 90
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300626000		1006 4TH ST		P B + S E PT 28 X 107FT 3IN LO
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	310460000		1245 COLES BLVD		JOHNSON WHOLE 80 X 184 LOT 9-
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	310013000		0 ALTAMONT AVE		FRAC N. S. BLVD. 20 X 40 RTS 2
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300702000		8 UNION ST		THOMPSON N 1/2 33 X 124 LOT 33
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	321528000		0 CLAY ST		SKELTON + VAC. ALLEY REAR PT.
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301007000		918 FINDLAY ST		BARR S PT MID 33FT 8IN X 64 LO
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	310821000		1245 COLES BLVD		JOHNSON W 62 X 157'6" 54.7 X
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300419000		936 4TH ST		P B + S E 1/2, 30 X 107FT 3IN
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301002000		1411 6TH ST		GLOVER E PT 34FT 4IN X 121 LOT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	332694000		0 INDIAN DR		INDIAN HILLS (SUB OF LOT 56) 2
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300565000		21 GLOVER ST		THOMPSON WHOLE 66 X 124 LOT 46
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300140000		1318 4TH ST		GLOVER TRACT 64 30 X 109
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	310672000		2612 SUNRISE AVE		HENRY GALLENSTEIN WHOLE 51.88/
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300536000		1116 10TH ST		BARR W 1/2, 35 X 132 LOT 89
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	320859000		212 OFFNERE ST		DAMARIN MID PT 35 X 109FT 6IN
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	320015000		1658 12TH ST		TURLEY WH 35 X 131'2" LOT 16 M
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300513001		4 UNION ST		THOMPSON 33 X 62.17 FT. AC. .0
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	312179000		1231 COLES BLVD		JOHNSON WHOLE 40 X 184 LOT 8
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300672001		1026 FINDLAY ST		BARR L 106 MAP 24-001
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	331257000		1816 GRANDVIEW AVE		R + H WHOLE 32 X 120 LOT 5
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300821000		916 FINDLAY ST		BARR S PT 33 X 64 LOT 83
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300508000		14 UNION ST		THOMPSON N PT 33 X 124 LOT 37
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	311397000		1253 COLES BLVD		FRAC N SIDE OF BLVD. 60 X 120
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301040000		1113 9TH ST		BARR E PT 33 X 132 LOT 77
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300904000		1401 6TH ST		GLOVER W PT 30 X 121 LOT 14-15
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	320293000		210 OFFNERE ST		DAMARIN PT EA 35 X 109FT 6IN L
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300443000		817 10TH ST		BARR WHOLE 40 X 132 LOT 176
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300949000		614 GLOVER ST		GLOVER PT EACH 25 X 128FT 4IN
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301241000		837 10TH ST		BARR E 1/2 25 X 132 LOT 172
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300480000		19 GLOVER ST		THOMPSON N PT 21FT 5IN X 124 L
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300967000		833 11TH ST		BARR WH. LOT 193 W. PT. LOT 19
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300709000		1312 4TH ST		GLOVER TRACT 62 42FT 9IN X
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300616000		1412 2ND ST		THOMPSON MID PT 30 X 120 LOT 6
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301215000		1311 2ND ST		THOMPSON PT EACH 50 X 150 LOT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300172000		8 GLOVER ST		THOMPSON ALL LOT 35-39-43-47 W
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301248000		1420 2ND ST		THOMPSON MID PT 45 X 120 LOT 6
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	312043000		1214 JOHNSON ST		JOHNSON WHOLE 80 X 157FT 6IN L
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300352000		120 GLOVER ST		THOMPSON PT EA 22FT 2IN X 132
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300034000		1235 3RD ST		H. WALLER PT EA 28 X 107FT 3IN
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300542000		1005 4TH ST		PB+S ALL LOT 68+69+70 PT LOT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	301042000		1416 2ND ST		THOMPSON E PT LOT 63-67 W PT L
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300670000		1120 10TH ST		BARR E 1/2, 35 X 132 LOT 89
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	321788000		218 OFFNERE ST		DAMARIN N PT EA 35 X 139FT 6IN
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300399000		1025 9TH ST		BARR WHOLE 64 X 132 LOT 79
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	290911000		713 6TH ST		CITY E 1/4 41FT 2IN X 107FT 3I
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300513000		0 WHEELING ST		THOMPSON S 1/2 33 X 62 LO
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300764000		110 GLOVER ST		THOMPSON MID PT 26 X 132 LOT 5
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	290558000		2310 ARGONNE		ARLINGTON WHOLE 34FT 6IN X 110
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY	300762000		112 GLOVER ST		THOMPSON N PT 28 X 132 LOT 55
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY A	290176000		2312 ARGONNE		ARLINGTON WHOLE 35 X 110FT 1IN
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY A.	290345000		907 29TH ST		NOEL #2 WHOLE 38FT 6IN X 123 L
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY J/S	301297000		918 8TH ST		BARR W. PT.LOT 621 E. PT. LOT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY J/S	301159000		411 SINTON AVE		P B + S S PT 39FT 2IN X 32 LOT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY J/S	311762000		1044 NOEL DR		BLD HTS. WH EACH IRR. 225.69 X
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY J/S	321897000		1554 CHARLES ST		LAND ON JACKSON AVE. .20 A. RT
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY J/S	300388000		910 8TH ST		BARR W 1/2 41FT 3IN X 107FT 3I
HATCHER NEAL + VICKY J/S	300956000		815 10TH ST		BARR E. PT. W. PT. 40 X 132 LO
HATCHER TANNER	320166000		1644 6TH ST		GREEN W PT, 22 X 111FT9IN LOT
HATCHER VICKY	300742000		1129 9TH ST		BARR W 1/2 35 X 132 LOT 74
HATCHER-NAGLE CO	301053001		11TH ST		BARR PT 25 X 132 LOT 188 MAP
HATCHER-NAGLE CO	301162000		1017 GAY ST		BARR WH 100 X 132 LOT 189-190
HATCHER-NAGLE CO	310650000		22ND ST		WILLIAMSON REAR PT. 35.9 X 2
HATCHER-NAGLE CO	310649000		2208 SCIOTO TRAIL		RIVERVIEW PART 55 X 142.41 L
HATCHER-NAGLE CO	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