River Vices

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Ten Commandments of City Council Etiquette

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I am told by those who do their civic duty and attend Portsmouth City Council meetings that His Honor Our Lapdog Mayor recently reprimanded...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

Wired World

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In the last quarter-century or so, and particularly in the last ten years, computer technology has transformed politics tremendo...
Friday, June 05, 2009

No Justice in Portsmouth

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317 Front Street I've heard a number of times in the last twenty years that one of the things that has accelerated the economic declin...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Apple Falls

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              Apple  Falls Everyone's a  relative. They  couldn't be nicer to you. Kinship's a great palliative If you're no...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Gaming the System

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America’s favorite pastime is no longer baseball; it is gaming the system, whatever the particular system may happen to be. And no state ma...
Monday, May 11, 2009

Incredible Shrinking DAILY TIMES

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Our anorexic local newspaper, the Portsmouth Daily Times, recently announced that because of shrinking revenues from advertisers it will n...
Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Dope Box Derby

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Now that he has finished behind Jane Murray by a 2 to 1 vote in the May 5 primary, winning only one precinct to her twenty-two, expect Mayo...
Monday, April 27, 2009

The Pimp and the Lapdog

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The Pimp and the Lapdog Let me say in this last blog, Let every citizen hear: The pimp and the lapdog Must face the voters this year! VOTE ...
Saturday, March 28, 2009

From Dollars to Donuts

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When Mike Jones accepted an invitation from the Concerned Citizens Group and met with them on 20 January 2007 to discuss his ca...
Saturday, March 21, 2009

The Trial of Harald Daub

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On March 19, 2009, at the end of a long day’s trial in the courtroom at the Portsmouth Municipal Building, Harald Daub was found by a jury o...
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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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