A relative who visited Kentucky for a few days handed me a copy of the Cincinnati Enquirer, and I learned of the local excitement over the new Cincy Amazon Air Hub, with a wink to the local pilot's concern over safety conditions.
When I was 12, I was lucky enough to get a tour of the Baltimore News American and was astonished to learn that the Sunday comics were ready by Thursday. I'm not sure if I could've contained my youthful bluntness if I had encountered #johnsteadman, a sports columnist, I liked/disliked with intensity.
Another Cincy story: Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science is breaking ground next summer on an Educational Cremation Center, a facility not offered at other education institutions
May 19
Marquis de #Lafayette arrived at Cincinnati’s Public Landing on May 19, 1825 as part
of the Revolutionary War general’s tour of the USA.
May 22, 2019
Sports has played a role in my curiosity about #Cincinnati: The Orioles/Reds faced off in a a few World Series matchups in the 1970s , and I never understood this 4/21/1970 NBA Trade: Milwaukee Bucks get #OscarRobertson; Cincinnati Royals get Charlie Paulk and Flynn Robinson.
May 28, 2019
Cincy U earned an automatic bid to the College World Series. The Cincy City Council and Hamilton County are bickering over funding for the new soccer staduim for the FC Cincinnati franchise.
may 30
I bet most Bengals' fans didn't think ex HC #marvinlewis would land his next job as a special advisor to Herm Lewis at Arizona St . His last job at the collegiate level came in 1990-91 as linebackers coach at #Pitt.
june 17
This headline caught my attention: Cincinnati retirees sue city to keep insurance coverage of #Viagra
july 2
#Cincinnati has lowest cost of living of any major metro in U.S according to a US Government index
july 7
I was curious about #RedsRockin’ 150 at Great American Ball Park Friday night July 5. The Red Stocking played their first game on May 4, 1869, and on Oct. 8, 1880 they were expelled from the National League,
due in part to a refusal to stop renting out their ballpark on Sundays
and to cease selling beer during games.
july 13
Cincinnati U debuted new, military parachute-inspired uniforms. #KurtBusch battled his brother Kyle in winning the Quaker State 400 at Kentucky Speedway which is about an hour from Cincinnati, Ohio.July 31: Intrastate Ohio pending MLB deal with a dash of San Diego: Reds get Bauer from the Indians, the Indians get Puig from the Reds and outfielder Franmil Reyes and pitcher Logan Allen from the Padres, and San Diego gets top prospect and outfielder #TaylorTrammell from the Reds.
sept 7
I'm guessing folks in Cincy got a chuckle from seeing #VontezBurfict, a former Bengal, playing peacemaker in the Raiders camp in a confrontation between #AB and #MikeMayock , the Raiders GM.Cincy U visits Ohio St in what should a tough intrastate football battle.
Firefighters will bring firehoses to Cincinnati Zoo to clean up the elephants on Sept 9.
sept 15
I'm catching up on the 8/26/19 print edition of the Daily Press, which
has served the Virginia Peninsula since 1896 and am fascinated by the
article on the taking down of the #bonnerbridge which
carried N.C. 12 over Oregon Inlet between Hatteras and Bodie islands.
70K tons of debris will be unloaded offshore on four artificial reefs.
It's replacement, the Marc Basnight Bridge, opened for traffic in
February, 2019.
sept 29, 2019
College foootball: Bearcats traveled to Huntingdon , VA and rolled Marshall . Miami (ohio) handled Buffalo U.NFL: Bengals" front office sent an email to people who have purchased tickets and asked: "How did a simple land swap between the City and the County turn into a broad-ranging fight over the future of this region?" #TheBanks
nov 2
LA raids Cincy again. #usc is about to hire #Cincinnati AD #MikeBohn to the same position. Senior associate athletic director Maggie McKinley will serve as Cincinnati's interim AD until a replacement is named. In April, 2019 UCLA hired Cincy hoops coach Mick Cronin.
Nov 9
I picked up the USA today weekend edition and read the section on 50 states, and stopped for a while on a paragraph from Wauchula, Florida about Sandra, a 33-year old orangutan settling into her new home at the Center for Great Apes in Florida. I dug further and found that Judge Elena Liberatori of Argentina ruled in 2015 that Sandra is a person entitled to certain rights including the right to enjoy better living conditions. WTF!
Nov 30
From the USA weekend print edition I learned that starting July 1, 2020 you will have to be 21 to buy tobacco products in PA, but the age limit remains at 18 for military veterans and service members. Good luck to the tobacco vendors sorting this law out. !
dec 15
Two birding groups filed a federal lawsuit trying to
block a proposed six-turbine wind farm just off the shore of Cleveland near Lake Erie, saying the project poses a
danger to migrating songbirds that fly through the area.
dec 27,2019
I picked up the Dec24 print copy of the New York Times while doing some last minute Xmas shopping and found an article about a basement house party in Harlem started in 2012 by Nile Ivey and Kameron McCullough that's now is held at Barclays Arena. It's called D'Usse Palooza. The entrance fee for the initial 2012 party was a bottle of Hennessy and a a bucket of fried chicken.
March 8,2020
In an edition of the print Baltimore Sun I saw an article about The United Mutual Brotherhood of Liberty, a Baltimore based civil rights organization which was active between 1885 and 1891, and successfully fought the exclusion in MD of black mothers from
protection under the Bastardly Act, which allowed women to
compel their child’s father to provide financial support in cases of
abandonment.On a side note, I can't envision any legislation today being titled Bastardly.
April 10
NYC hires laborers instead of using inmates, its usual procedure, to bury dead in Hart Island potter's field during the coronavirus surge. Hart Island has been used to bury New Yorkers with no known next of kin or whose
family are unable to arrange a funeral since the 1800s.
July 24, 2020
Is MLB coming to Connecticut for 2020? Hartford, CT has two near-empty hotels in its downtown area where the Toronto Blue Jays could sequester . And Dunkin’ Donuts Park, a highly rated AA baseball stadium.
July 25, 2020
Three MLB teams in the state of New York. Hartford put in a bid but the Blue Jays go back to one of their early options, Sahlen Field, the home of its A affiliate which is located in downtown Buffalo.
Closer to home, I wish MASN would put #PhilWood back on the air to talk baseball.
Aug 3, 2020
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, criticized an order by Montgomery County Health Officer Dr. Travis Gayles that requires private schools to remain closed for in-person instruction through Oct. 1 and to conduct online-only classes due Covid.
Sept 19, 2020
I picked up Thursday's print edition of the USA Today and every state in 50States section had a Covid-19 related story. Hey, but I did learn in other sections of the paper that two of the top fast food chains are getting serious about having more "real food" on their menus.
dec 11,2020
I'm not buying Arkansas' usage of Covid 19 to rationalize limiting the hours and services at its state parks.
June 21, 2021
Demolition starts today on Perkins Homes, a World War 2 era public housing project in SE Baltimore city, located between Fells Point and Little Italy and bounded by Pratt Street to the north, Eden Street on the west, Dallas Street on the east, and Bank Street to the south.
July 4 2021
My mom found this 1991 short, MLB prognostication column I penned for an April 11 , 1991 East Baltimore Guide edition. I did my best to make it fit minus the ads . Jackie Watts , the editor at the time and who died a few years ago, wrote the lead-in. Images at blog.
Sept 27, 2021
While reviewing some blog entries about the Cincy area from Fall 2019, I started to wonder if USC is happy that they hired #Cincinnati AD #MikeBohn to the same position. Also, the Bengals "new" stadium proposals haven't been solidified.
In current news, Hamilton City Council will move the historic 19th-century train station built by the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad. Wolfe House Movers of Indiana LLC will lift up the station’s two buildings from three or four feet above the ground and hoist the upper areas of the building as part of move to a city property on Maple Avenue near MLK Boulevard.
Oct 9, 2021
Wharf Rat, a Fells Point bar in Baltimore City at 801 S Ann St, sold for one million dollars at auction yesterday to a local restaurateur.
Nov 18, 2021
#TameikaDevine, a Democrat. who had the backing of U.S. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn and former President Barack Obama lost to Rickenman, a Republican, in the Columbia , South Carolina Mayoral race. Columbia has been so reliably blue over the last decade that the Republicans didn’t put forth a challenger in the previous Mayoral election.
April 14, 2022
Lawyers taking care of their own. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner has reached an agreement with the Missouri Office of Disciplinary Counsel in which she acknowledges mistakes in her handling of the prosecution of former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens but doesn't face disbarment.
She failed to produce documents and mistakenly maintained that all documents had been provided to Greitens’ lawyers in the 2018 criminal case. She used a heavy workload as one of her excuses.
Missouri Supreme Court will review the Disciplinary Counsel agreement.
June 25, 2022
Rich Klein has dug up thousands of TV shows and clips captured on home video systems or saved by television professionals, creating a nonprofit archive of local Chicago area programming. He digitized many of his finds and put them on a YouTube channel, The Museum of Classic Chicago Television. I bet this one is a doozy, a community college interview of newspaper columnist Mike Royko in his gruff, chain-smoking style.
Oct 9, 2022
I'm looking at my old article and it reminds me that Carlton Fisk and Tim Raines wore the Chisox uniform in the early 1990s.
Oct 14, 2022
Gov. Hogan held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday at the Nice-Middleton bridge, which connects Charles County in Maryland to King George County, Virginia. The old crossing will be demolished over the next two years. We use this bridge on trips from Baltimore, MD to Hampton Va to get to Rt 17
Oct 25, 2022
A fire destroyed Futuro "UFO" House in Frisco, NC. It was a prefab home designed in the 1960s by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen.
Oct 26, 2022
Civil War-era bullets and a union U.S. cartridge box plate and other relics are lying around the rocks under I-55 bridge in Memphis since the Mississippi River's water levels have receded.
The location is near the former site of Fort Pickering, a base that was used first by the Confederates and later the Union after they took over the facility in 1862.
Nov 5, 2022
Dr Guarin owns a mobile vasectomy clinic dubbed ‘Nutcracker’ that offers free procedures in Iowa. He calls it the "Mythcracker" .
Jan 12, 2023
Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Evers isn’t ruling out the use of state funds to construct a passenger rail line between the cities of Madison and Milwaukee that would also expand connections between Chicago and St. Paul, Minnesota, but the GOP will likely oppose his plan even if it’s funded with mostly federal money, because Wisconsin will be on the hook to subsidize it for the next 30 years,
Feb 23, 2022
More from Evers: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos claims Governor Evers didn’t consult Republicans or work with the Legislature on plans to fund American Family Field(aka MillerPark) $290 million for repairs. It should be an interesting battle in the legislature.
The Southeast Wisconsin Professional Baseball Park District is the Brewers’ landlord. The Brewers’ lease calls for the district to cover repairs, but Evers’ office said the end of the five-county sales tax has left the district short of funds.
Brewers MGT opposes the return of the five-county tax and are prepared to commit to a lease extension for the Brewers to remain at American Family Field through at least 2042.
April 4, 2023
Fort Campbell: Two HH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, part of the 101st Airborne Division, crashed around 10 p.m. on March 29 in Trigg County, Kentucky.
April 25, 2023
Beth Murphy, the Murphy’s Bleachers bar owner who battled the Chicago Cubs over the Wrigleyville rooftops, died at the age of 68 . In 1980, her husband, Jim, a Chicago cop, bought Ray’s Bleachers, a local hangout on the corner of Waveland and Sheffield, for a $200,000.
May 25, 2023
Lou A. Griffin, 67 of Racine, WI, pleaded no contest Jan. 27, 2023 in Brown County Circuit Court(WI) to a charge of homicide by reckless conduct, and a judge found him guilty and sentenced him to 10 years in prison. He was originally charged in October 2020 with first-degree intentional homicide in Lisa Holstead’s killing. Her body was found in August 1986.
He told investigators he might have had sex with Holstead but denied killing her.
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