Friday, June 26, 2015

The New City Seal: Stars and Fleurs-de-Lis Forever

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Portsmouth's New City Seal If there’s one thing Portsmouth should not want to commemorate with a new city seal it’s the new U...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Manager-Council Government: Less Democracy, More Hypocrisy

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     I see that our officious First Ward council member Kevin W. Johnson is at it again, once more donning his Mussolini hat to mo...
Thursday, June 04, 2015

Dreamland: What's in a Name?

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      Sam Quinones’ Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Addiction (2015), has been rightfully acclaimed for detailing and rega...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Remembering My Brother on Memorial Day

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Forrey family, fall of 1942. I am at extreme left, Ed in uniform, back row      While doing chores on Memorial Day morning, 2015,...
Monday, May 11, 2015

Ballad of Derek Allen

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The official results of the Ward Six primary where Stratton and Lowe were the finalists, as indicated by their names in bold type,  and...
Thursday, May 07, 2015

Portsmouth's Carpetbagging City Manager

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“Let me see if I’ve got this straight, Mr. Allen. You say you are the city manager of Portsmouth, Ohio, but your home is in Piqua, Ohio,...
Sunday, May 03, 2015

Tax Increases and the Most Dangerous Occupations

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A few years ago I looked at the U.S. Department of Labor  statistics on the ten most dangerous occupations for 2012. I have listed...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

All Aboard to Go Backwards!

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The crooked conductor on the Twentieth Century Ltd.  All Aboard for those wanting to go backwards!  Be ...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Julia Marlowe: The Tomboy and the Lady

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The hefty Marlowe as a girl playing  a boy  in   Twelfth Night Marlowe playing Rosalind posing as a male  in As Y...
Sunday, April 12, 2015

Feldman's Legacy

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[ For the light it throws on the current city manager's role in Portsmouth, I am reposting an article  from 2005 on former city man...