Sunday, April 30, 2006

Ohio: The Blackeye State

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Solicitor David Kuhn Councilman Tim Loper Ohio proudly calls itself the Buckeye State , but since 2000 Ohio has gained an...
Sunday, April 23, 2006

Marting's: Portsmouth's Potemkin

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Howard Baughman: Caveat Emptor “I thought we were talking about a wood-framed building. We're not. We're talking about a concrete st...
Friday, April 21, 2006

Welcome Center

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On 18 April 2006, President Bush appointed our former congressman Rob Portman to be the new head of Office of Management and Budget. Like Ji...
Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Unholy Triangle:

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Portsmouth sometimes seems trapped in a vicious cycle of crime and corruption. At least one survey revealed that Portsmouth is the second mo...
Saturday, April 08, 2006

Let Me Lie in a House

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“ The House by the Side of the Road ” On April 5, 2006, responding to a formal challenge I had filed, the Scioto County Board of Elections d...
Thursday, March 30, 2006

Who's Your Mummy?

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124-Year-Old Maid On May 2nd, the people of Portsmouth should VOTE NO on converting Marting’s department store into a city building because ...
Sunday, March 26, 2006

The First Commandment

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The First Commandment of Portsmouth’s over-privileged is “Local government shall not construct a new public building when a doctor, law...
Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Rich White Trash

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City of Portsmouth Ordinance 941.04, dealing with the “DISPOSAL OF REFUSE AND GARBAGE GENERALLY, ” states that “(a) No person, firm or corp...
Friday, March 17, 2006

House of Ill Repute

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519 Third Street In recent blogs, in “Grossly Misrepresented” and “Miserable Failures,” I made the case that, at this particular time,...