River Vices

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

ToxiCity

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Residents of Portsmouth may be eating chicken wings, drinking milk shakes, and watching movies on a toxic site without realizing it. Rumors...
Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Slashings & Rip-Offs

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After managing to avoid them all my life, I recently saw my first slasher movie. Like Pinocchio to the circus, I was lured to the Portsmouth...
Sunday, January 13, 2008

Golden Wazoo

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On January 8, 2008, Ka-BOOM! announced the winners of the three $25,000 Golden Kazoo and five Silver Kazoo $5,000 grants in the Playful City...
Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Seventeen Mohr Resolutions

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In a revealing interview in the Portsmouth Daily Times (Nov. 7, 2007), Marty Mohr said a number of foolish things, as he so often has done i...
Monday, December 17, 2007

Common Sense

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It is that time of year again, when the marketing of the Christ child reaches obscenely commercial depths in the annual materialistic Christ...
Tuesday, November 27, 2007

A Tale of Two Fires

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Lee Scott Summoned Here’s a sad coincidence. On Oct. 18, 2007 , in the ancient market town of Neath, in Wales , a beloved music theatre, the...
Wednesday, November 14, 2007

"Hail, Columbia!"

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Columbia Theater, c. 1916 In the first half of the 1900s, movies became the most popular and influential cultural medium in ...
Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Election Reflections

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Why did City Solicitor Kuhn lose to challenger Mike Jones by more than a 2 to 1 margin, in spite of outspending Jones by more than a 2 to...
Monday, November 05, 2007

Last Minute Lies

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As the hours dwindle down to election day, the river of lies coming from incumbent politicians threatens to overflow the floodwall of truth....
Monday, October 29, 2007

Rudy Kuhniani

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City Solicitor's Executive Mansion The short sentence at the end of Jeff Barron’s article on Portsmouth ’s passive-aggressive City Soli...
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Robert Forrey
Retired now, I was born in Boston, Massachusetts, hold B.A. and M.A. degrees in English from Wesleyan U. (Conn.) and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale, where I was a Research Associate at the Institute for Social and Policy Studies and a coordinator of a committee that organized international American Studies conferences during the American Bicentennial. From 1989-2006, I taught English at Shawnee State U., in Portsmouth, Ohio, where I was active in the faculty union, the Shawnee Education Association, serving four terms as president. I also served as faculty advisor to the student gay and lesbian group. I have served also as president of the Concerned Citizens of Portmouth and Scioto County, a community action group. My scholarly interests have focused on the American Dream: the Myth and the Realities. I can be reached at rforr1@roadrunner.com A selection of my poems can be found at http://xpalidosis.blogspot.com The original contents of all blogs on this site are copyrighted @.
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