Last week during his address to Congress, President Obama talked about our crumbling infrastructure. One project he highlighted was the Brent Spence bridge, which connects Cincinnati to Northern Kentucky. This bridge is a part of the most major north/south corridor in the United States – I-75. It is a vital part of transportation, meaning it’s […]
While Republicans continue holding up the governor races in Virginia and New Jersey as evidence of some sort of revitalization, other indicators have been overlooked – ones that show the Republicans, and the tea party movement in general, are not doing too well. Remember back on Labor Day when there was a huge tea party […]
So here we are one week from the kick off of summer – Memorial Day weekend! We are also a week past the traditional “end of frost” – Mother’s Day. These past two weekends mark the highlight of the suburbia outdoor art festival. It’s a time when people flock to their local garden centers like […]
Here in the greater Cincinnati area we saw 16 tax levies on the ballot yesterday. Of those 16 only 5 passed. The local news reports showed people all saying the same thing; “we want to support it, but the economy is just too rough”. Of course a lot of the levies were for schools and […]
Back around 96-97 I worked for a local plumbing company. We were the largest new construction plumbing company in the greater Cincinnati area, an area seeing a huge boom in new construction at the time. When I started with this company, my job was service technician. I would go to new homes we had done […]
I have spent all 38 years of my live in the greater Cincinnati area. As matter of fact, 36 of those years have been within about a 15 mile radius. We never used to have our power go out, but that has changed. Now it is happening on a constant basis. Last night’s cause was […]
I read this local story the other day and have been scratching my head over it: Rising environmental sensitivity and the Internet may soon make that dog-eared Cincinnati Bell White Pages directory a thing of the past. The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio on Wednesday unanimously approved allowing Bell’s recently launched online White Pages at […]
This time it happened a couple of miles from me: A former Hamilton resident who worked the audio-visual system for an area church allegedly sent child pornography while on the job. Albert Jefferson Stone, 28, of Harrison Avenue in Cincinnati was arrested Wednesday, Nov. 12, by the FBI and charged in U.S. District Court with […]
After a little more than six days, I am back online. It’s amazing seeing what that wind storm that hit last Sunday did to the Greater Cincinnati area. There are still tens of thousands without power. There is also a lot of finger pointing going on about who is to blame for the extended repair […]
DSC_2328 Originally uploaded by intoxination Here’s one of the shots I got Friday night at the annual Red, White and Kaboom festival in Hamilton, Ohio. We have one of the better 4th of July festivals in the Greater Cincinnati area. I actually had a few shots come out really nice. I was stuck kind of […]