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My latest column and assorted trail mix from the opinion jar
I am four days back from vacation, which is equivalent to 100 light years away from the beach. So as I was returning to the blog to post my latest column from Cincy Magazine (scroll down if you can’t wait), I grabbed a handful of salty comments from the opinion jar. Here goes — and many thanks, as always, to those of you who still drop by here, even when nobody’s home.
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Liberal media: Close enough for government work
Your government-subsidized media at work
During 30 years in the newspaper business, I watched as the newsroom herd of independent minds followed the cowbell of liberal bias over a cliff. Every year it got worse, leading to the great leap for Obama that caused a cartwheeling free-fall of credibility. No wonder more than half the nation that calls itself conservative has turned its back on newspapers...
EZ Money: Your tax dollars at work creating jobs — for Junebug the drug dealer
Blog readers: Here’s my column from the June issue of Cincy Magazine. From a distance, Cincinnati looks clean and corruption free. Not so. Read on.EZ Money: Your tax dollars at work creating jobs — for Junebug the drug dealer
By Peter Bronson
Cincinnati is like a big family. It has rowdy celebrations, domestic disputes, checkbook troubles, crazy aunts in the attic and family secrets nobody...
Issue 1 is just Obama stimulus spending with a Buckeye brand
Cincinnati Tea Party
Nothing unmasks the hypocrisy and schizophrenia of the Republican party like Issue 1 in Ohio. Business leaders who normally condemn socialism and defend free markets swoon for it. But real conservatives see it for what it is: welfare for a few hand-picked corporations, chosen by the state.
The backers, including many powerful business groups, hospitals and state institutions...
A night of yellow ribbons and red-white-and-blue patriotism
Matt Maupin
At the door they handed out rubber wrist bands that said, “Let Us Never Forget.” That, in a few words, was all that really needed to be said at the Yellow Ribbon Scholarship Fundraiser last night at the Oasis in Loveland.
Of course, there was more to say. The Maupins were there, honoring their son Matt, whose capture and MIA status captivated Cincinnati and broke our hearts for...
‘For $200, Alex, I’ll take Political Obscenities. Ummm… What is Obamacare?’
She called herself “The Maid of Shalom,” or sometimes she signed as ”The Perfect Woman.” I remember those handwritten letters well, because they were loaded like hand-grenades with the most creative and colorful threats.
The one I remember best said she would visit my home while I was sleeping and castrate me with a dull, rusty knife. Yikes.
And then there was the time I...
First fatality of Obamacare? Newspapers’ credibility.
Today’s Sunday Enquirer is a keeper. And not for a birdcage or as a training aid for housebreaking your puppy. It should be stashed away in a drawer in the basement so someday, 20 or 30 years from now, you can haul it out when your grandchildren ask, “What happened to newspapers? Why did they go out of business?”
Start with the story on page one, Driehaus still leans toward ‘no.’
Anyone...
Welcome to the Cincinnati Gran Prius
'Gentlemen, start your hamsters!'
Dear Mayor Mark Mallory:
I have an exciting offer that could really put Cincinnati on the map with an event that unites two completely opposite groups: NASCAR Nation and the tree-hugging environmental Green Goreistas.
I’m talking about the First Annual Cincinnati Gran Prius.
The timing could not be better. I see by the news that you were burned by...
Laketa Cole: Lifetime tenure at the public trough
Isn’t that amazing. There must be eleventy-thousand people unemployed in Ohio, faithfully circling want-ads, showing up for interviews, waiting by the phone for that boilerplate rejection line: “We’ll get in touch if something opens up.”
If all the unemployed people in Ohio lined up at the same unemployment office, they would reach from here to futility. According to the latest...
The Empowerment Zone stands for EZ money? That’s not news
Lots of readers probably saw that Sunday story in the Enquirer about $25 million wasted by the Cincinnati Empowerment Zone and thought: “Here we go again. Yet another textbook case of government malpractice.”
But really, it’s worse than that. It’s also a textbook case of race hustling, politically correct cowardice and newspaper negligence.
In fact, finding out that the Empowerment...
