Friday, February 23, 2007

Letter to the Auditor (2)

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Auditor Trent Williams asks for another raise Mr. Williams : Because I did not receive an answer to my previous email of 2/21/07 , I...
Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Letter to the Auditor

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Award-winning Auditor Trent Williams Feb. 20, 2007 Dear Mr. Williams: This is a formal request under Ohio 's open records statutes. What...
Monday, January 08, 2007

Rife with Corruption

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Vern Riffe floodwall mural, Portsmouth As an English professor newly arrived in south-central Ohio in 1989, I thought it was iro...
Thursday, December 28, 2006

The Old & the New

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“In its final report, a building committee formed by City Council President Howard Baughman last summer has recommended that the new city b...
Thursday, December 07, 2006

Merry Marting's To All

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T’was the night before Christmas and all through the store, Not a councilman was stirring, not even a Mohr; The stockings were hung by t...
Monday, November 13, 2006

Legacies

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Boola-Moola In spite of its reputation for academic excellence, Yale has produced a trio of politicians whose incompetence and poll numbers ...
Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Ohio Halloween Nightmare

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Last night, I had an Ohio Halloween nightmare. I dreamed I lived in Ohio , in Portsmouth , in the First Ward, where Timothy Loper had been ...
Monday, October 23, 2006

Bridge to the Past

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Portsmouth has a beautiful expensive new bridge, but the celebrating is over, and now it’s time to come to terms with reality and face the...