River Vices

a twinkle in his shifty eyes and a few tricks up his sleeve. . . A-Marting We Will Go, Again! Ho! Ho! Ho...

Paula and the Peacock Like Jay Gatsby (born  Gatz ), Paula Broadwell (born  Krantz ), an upwardly mobile Dakotan, raced to the ...

                           City Manager Search          The search was thorough as can be, They searched ev’rywheres in the coun...

Portsmouth, Ohio, home of the bankrupt politicians Having failed at handling their own finances, bankrupt Portsmouth city ...

“Politics is the systematic organization of hatreds.”                                                    Henry Adams         ...

The canned party animal Randy Yohe (first on left)  kicking up his heels as a can-can dancer The kid glove treatment of law enfo...

Little Chuck Horner Sat in a corner Talking like a tough guy. “Fee, fi, fo, fum— That day   will   sur...

2837 Scioto Trail, on Horner ’ s Architectural Trail of Tears        A recent post by Jane Murray on her lively website wegottroubler...

“Psst! Psst! Hey, Marshall Dillon. It’s me, your buddy Chuck, up here on the billboard.”

Even a beautiful sixty-nine year old senior Just Says No to Horner Letter circulating among Scioto seniors ...

 " Comments from the Web" in the     Portsmouth Daily Times  ( 2/12/2012) Horner’s Son: People Who Live in Crack Hou...

Billboard near Shawnee State U. The report yesterday (1 Nov. 2012) from CBS news that Shawnee State U. is among the worst American u...

Nick Basham, the poster boy for everything  that is wrong with pawnish Portsmouth politicians The Party’s Over The death yesterda...

By the 2010 census, Scioto County, which covers about 616 sq. miles, has a population of 79,499. The  city of Portsmouth, on the ot...

Jesus Walking on Water on Grandview Avenue 1. Jesus  2. Wastewater Director  3. Rat  4. Devil's Disciple  5. Auditor  6. Soli...

This is a paragraph from an unsigned notice sent out by the city falsely claiming that the U.S. EPA has ordered 63 residents of the Gr...