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My latest column and assorted trail mix from the opinion jar

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. – Where’s... 

Would you buy stock in Cincinnati?

Would you buy stock in Cincinnati?
  City Hall -- ticker symbol BCC for Blue Chip City Here’s my column from the December issue of Cincy Magazine:     If Cincinnati City Hall were a book, it would be a Raymond Chandler mystery, populated by hard-eyed fat men in tweed topcoats and fedoras, chomping cigars, sneaking sips from silver hip flasks while they wait outside the office of Boss Cox. If it were a painting, it would... 

Surrealistic reality TV — when life imitates art

Surrealistic reality TV -- when life imitates art
We need a name for people who get hooked on a sniff of celebrity and start chasing TV news cars. Call it Publicity Addiction. Or Attention Surplus Disorder. Or maybe we should name it Falcon Henne Syndrome, for the balloon boy whose dad punked the whole country in a sad bid for another fix of TV attention. Apparently, he missed the family’s short fame from a Wife Swap reality show so much, he... 
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