River Vices

"Dammit D'reck my outhouse washed away!" Grandview geysers iz overflowin’ wiffout our sity man’ger kn...

I am reposting below a  River Vices  blog on the Dragon Lady from September 2010.  Has the manager-council form of government introduce...

The Grandview area before the Dreck Geyser spouted [ Residents of the Grandview area reported that during the recent...

One of the curious things about  the campaign in Portsmouth in 2011 to change back to the manager-council form of government was the...

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...

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

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

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

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

“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,...

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...