River Vices

After the Ohio River recedes A Sewer Runs Through It When the river rises and then recedes, It’s obvious we’re in deep trouble Becau...

Black Friday Whom the gods would destroy, they first addict to shopping. Life’s one endless whirl of bargain hunting. It’s worse than fre...

Nothing would give me more pleasure than never having to write or even think about James D. Kalb again, but ...

Most residents may be surprised that  in yesterday’s election the county measure to increase the tax  for  the Alcohol, Drug, and Menta...

Lady Liberty Says Exercise Your Right to Vote on November 8 VOTE AGAINST THE INCREASE IN THE CITY INCOME TAX Increasing the City In...

The Billboard from Hell First they prescribed Oxycontin, To help “patients” get well. Then, just to rub it ...

Halloween Boon of  the candy manufacturer, Benefactor of every dentist, Halloween’s the number one malefactor, Topps in America’s Te...

“Don’t get me wrong, Mr. Duncan. I enjoyed your illustrated lecture about Portsmouth politics very much, but  me and the other rodents in ...

. . . who ’ s the dopiest councilman of all?       Nothing would give me more pleasure than never having to write, or even t...

The faded, peeling reminder on the Wall of Fame of the selection of Portsmouth as an All-America City, in 1979       There are ti...

Lady Liberty Says Exercise Your Right to Vote on November 8 VOTE AGAINST THE INCREASE IN THE CITY INCOME TAX Increasing the City Income...

American Garden Is it necessary to cultivate our American garden, Even as American arteries harden? Biblical nation of  salt, sugar and ...

  M. Jane Murray    1920 Dorman Drive   Portsmouth   Ohio   45662    U.S.A. _____________________________________________________________...

Portsmouth's Trashy Municipal Building Portsmouth is in the news again! Not for drugs but for trash. When Janice Shanks re...