River Vices

“I have never seen a city as original and friendly as my beautiful Portsmouth.” Jesse Stuart (1906-1984) Jesse Stuart’s feelings ab...

Law offices of Clayton Johnson, downtown Portsmouth “And the Marting Foundation said, ‘Let there be lights downtown,’ and there were light...

Some years ago, in the Fall following her summer stint as an intern for the Judge, the young woman who would later be known as the Unsi...

Thomas Gainsborough, "Girl with Pigs" In a poem he wrote in 1854, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow dubbed Cincinnati the “Queen Cit...

I suggested in a previous blog that whites in their relationships with Indians were like those South American tribes who first killed t...

To understand the ambivalent relationship between Native Americans and white Americans, it is instructive to recall the practice of some...

For Jim Thorpe, 1888-1953 He had an Irish name and an Indian face, a half-breed, born on an Oklahoma reservation – strength ...

In spite of being dominated by conservative Republicans, who advocate the classic Horatio Alger virtues of strive-and-succeed, south centr...

What was very surprising about the results of the recent attempt to recall Ann Sydnor as Ward 1 representative on the Portsmouth City Cou...

In addition to giving a Shawnee State trustee the chance to tap into public monies, as I pointed out in my previous blog, the Portsmouth ...

In Revere, Massachusetts, where I grew up, the Mafia was the group you had to worry about. In Portsmouth it’s the Chamber-of-...

"The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere," by Grant Wood Like a ball through space, the past does not move through time witho...

In the last couple of years, several shady real estate deals have taken place in Portsmouth, such as the sale of the Marting’s buildin...

Portsmouth City Council c. 2000 From left to right rear are Solicitor Kuhn, Mayor Bauer and City Clerk Aeh. “O, what a tangled...

The recent recall of mayor Bauer and the visit of George Bush and John Edwards to River City set me to reflecting about Portsmouth’s politi...

“It was a great day for the City of Portsmouth,” Richard Bussa began his article in the Community Common following the recent visit of Pres...

( On the demolition of the Norfolk & Western terminal ) After our candlelight vigil, we returned the next day for an unauthorize...

What a week! In an interview in Playboy Terrell Owens, a former teammate of Jeff Garcia, implied that the former quarterback of the ...

State investigators found nothing illegal in the city’s purchase of the Marting’s Building. That may be the case. Just because something is...

Recent events in Portsmouth, Ohio, and the recall of the mayor in particular, may reflect the remarkable revolution that electronics has bro...