In preparing to interview newly elected Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld, I was repeatedly visited by the temptation to ask him, “Are you as squeaky-clean as you seem?” I listened to him, then 25 years old, deliver a bright-eyed, five-minute distillation of a book he was writing on happiness, onstage at the Know Theatre. Later [...]
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Sittenfeld’s Journey from Journalism to City Hall
Posted in Uncategorized on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
What the Frack? ~ opposition to “fracking” surges after tremors
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged john armbruster, John Kasich, natural gas extraction, ohio department of natural resources on January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A series of 12 unusual earthquakes in northern Ohio reached a 4.0 magnitude on New Year’s Eve, shaking homes in Youngstown and intensifying nationwide opposition to fracking, a controversial natural gas extraction process. John Armbruster, a Columbia University seismologist hired by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), located the quakes’ epicenters near the base [...]
Animal scholars occupy Europe! A Sent. Cint. exclusive
Posted in Uncategorized on October 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Beneath the sooty spires of Prague, dogs join men and women in restaurants, birds arrive to winter on the iceless Vlatva River, and a group of scholars is meeting to ask questions that I, too, would like answered: Left to his own devices, what kind of life might a domestic dog choose for himself? How [...]
Duke Wants New Fee on Customers Who Opt Out
Posted in Uncategorized on September 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In a move almost as confusing as its monthly bills, Duke Energy has proposed a 10-year rate plan that would impose a new “capacity” fee on both its own customers and those who have switched to other electricity providers. While the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) evaluates the proposal, Cincinnati residents are considering an [...]
Closing the (Political) Salon
Posted in Uncategorized on September 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If Cincinnati were Paris, Ellen Bierhorst would be its Gertrude Stein. In July the 71-year-old psychotherapist-poet ended her Lloyd House Salon, a gathering in Clifton where some of the city’s most engaged citizens grappled with local leaders and each other about politics, art, life and death. Open to anyone and any topic, the salon convened [...]
Protest Greets Legislative Ghostwriters in Cincinnati; Enquirer Absent
Posted in News, Uncategorized, tagged ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Committee, Bob Sloan, Bruce Fealk, Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center, Jennifer Butler, John Boehner, John Kasich, Ohio Prison Industrieds Form At, Pam Gorman, protest on April 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday inside the Netherland Hotel, a discreet committee drafted America’s next season of conservative state legislation. Outside, bucket drums, megaphones, and a hundred angry voices roared in protest. And three blocks away, The Cincinnati Enquirer stayed home. Courageous members of the American Legislative Exchange Commission (ALEC), peeked out of the hotel’s grand entrance during their [...]
Livestock Care Standards Advance Without Enforcement Plan
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged farm animal welfare, Tony Forshey, Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board, Mercy for Animals, Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, complaint-driven standards, Ohio Livestock Coalition, Peggy Kirk Hall, Andy Ware, Dominic Marchese, animal cruelty videos on April 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Ohio’s Livestock Care Standards Board moved with unusual swiftness and cheer last week, to vote the final 25 pages of their document one step closer to entering the Ohio Revised Code. Likely to become effective this July, these will be the state’s first statutes regulating the care of chickens, pigs, cows, horses, turkeys, sheep, goats, [...]
Relief and resentment fly, after latest veal standards decision
Posted in Uncategorized on April 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Video coverage transcript: A tense crowd of nearly 200 people watched last week, as Ohio’s Livestock Care Standards Board granted future veal calves the space to turn around in a circle. The unanimous vote reversed a decision made just one month ago, which permitted farmers to house calves in narrow, solitary stalls. That first decision [...]
The plan!
Posted in Uncategorized on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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