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This Saturday, from 7-9pm at Club Bang downtown (314 W. 4th St. Cincinnati, Ohio 45202), you will all have the opportunity to meet the one and the only Dean of Cincinnati!

By the way, national celebrity Nick Lachey will be there, too.

Both of us will be supporting our friend, Justin Jeffre, who is running for Cincinnati City Council as an endorsed Green candidate.

So stop by with your $20 donation to get in, and enjoy some spirits with your humble Dean, Nick Lachey, Justin Jeffre, and others!

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The Beacon’s very own Justin Jeffre and Michael Earl Patton are on the ballot for Cincinnati City Council, and now both of them have endorsements from Cincinnati’s growing third parties.  Jeffre has been endorsed by the Southwest Ohio Green Party, and yesterday Patton announced his endorsement by the Cincinnati Libertarians.  Both the local Green and Libertarian parties came together under the leadership of the NAACP in opposing the imposition of a jail tax without a vote.

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For the second time in two election cycles, Jim Tarbell failed to get enough signatures to achieve ballot status.  Back in 2005, he decided at the last minute to run for mayor, and failed to get enough signatures.  And now this past week, he couldn’t manage to get himself on the ticket for School Board—which many view as an “entry level” political position.  But perhaps more shocking than Tarbell’s failure is the unspoken endorsement given to Tarbell by The Cincinnati Enquirer with their Friday morning headline, pictured to your right.

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The Cincinnati Beacon decided to send questions to Commissioner Pepper about the proposal for a new jail.  We asked about the Collaborative Agreement, the actual numbers of new beds gained, the details of getting people out of jail who don’t need to be there, and so forth.  Pepper responded to each inquiry, and even included a document from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections from June, 2007, responding to Si Leis’ statements about the Queensgate facility.  Whatever your position, this is must-read for those following the Hamilton County jail issue!

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U.S. Congressman John Conyers, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, will be the keynote speaker at the Cincinnati NAACP’s Freedom Fund Dinner—October 5th, 2007, at The Duke Energy Center.  Obtaining a speaker of this magnitude demonstrates the incredible success President Smitherman has enjoyed since being elected the new president of Cincinnati’s revitalized NAACP.  Despite intense criticism from naysayers, Smitherman was able to secure financial support for the NAACP convention in Cincinnati next year, and now he has secured a national figure for next month’s event.

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Bill Sloat at The Daily Bellwether has of Phil Heimlich’s crappy campaign web page for his congressional run against incumbent Jean Schmidt.  According to Sloat’s analysis, Heimlich has spent too much time touting his anti-gay past, and not enough time taking stands on current issues important to Republican primary voters in Ohio’s 2nd District.  Is Heimlich waffling, trying to sniff out the political winds instead of being the leader he hopes to make voters think he can become?

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Recently, I posted an item which asked some questions about the upcoming tax that CPS wants to levy upon the citizens of Cincinnati.  While I questioned their new buildings and wondered what it means to be asked to pay for a tax that has been found on several occasions to be unconstitutional, several readers took the opportunity to yell and scream at me for being an anti-child anti-tax nutcase.  I am not anti-child, and I am not a member of COAST.  I just had some questions.  And then one commenter left a suggestion which I think is rather fascinating:  what is the punishment for refusing to pay an unconstitutional tax?

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Tired of the incumbents on City Council?  Now, a local t-shirt company, WackSack, has a line of tees designed to ridicule each of the incumbents running for re-election.  To your right, you can see a “Jeff Berding” shirt, with a by-line proclaiming “Head of the popular Fascist Five movement.” These shirts are the perfect gift for your friend the activist, and they are great fashion concepts for getting under the skin of your least favorite politician.  I recommend buying WackSack political t-shirts, wearing them to the next community forum, and sitting in the front row so your most hated politician can know how you really feel!  See the whole line of t-shirts here.

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Love us or hate us, for many of you The Cincinnati Beacon has become a permanent part of your daily political and news lives.  We hope you can help us continue to serve you!  We are mounting a fundraising drive because we just got kicked off our shared server for too high resource usage!  In other words, The Beacon has grown too popular to function properly with inexpensive shared web hosting plans.  (And the price of an upgrade to a virtual private server is significant!) We have only paid for the first month, and we need your help to pay the bills for one more year!

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Though the story is not hard-hitting or particularly investigative, I was still pleased to see this story in today’s Enquirer about people who make it a point to eat local food.  I’d like to take it a step further, and remind people that in addition to buying food that has been grown locally, you can also grow your own local food—right in all that unused farmland you call a backyard!  So let’s take a moment to learn about “square foot gardening.”

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During the race last year, as I caught countless video samples of Phil Heimlich behaving like the future out-of-work and irrelevant spoiler he finally became, I never wondered whether Todd Portune would exhibit the same bad leadership traits.  What happened to Todd Portune?  Yesterday, as I dropped some bundles of The Beacon, Print Edition to Michael Earl Patton, a story popped on WCPO about Leis going to visit the Commissioner’s meeting yesterday.  (I could not find the same story I saw on television, but I did find this link at WCPO.) In the footage, Sheriff Leis is having some kind of temper tantrum, and he is doing some kind of stare-down towards DeWine. 

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Thanks for all the feedback, especially the off-the-blog comments.  As you can see, we returned to the former layout!

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Anytime we change the interface, we run the risk of losing users.  Please take some time to tell us about the new design.  We know, for example, that for users with either small screens or low screen resolutions, the site may appear as too “squished” in the browser window. 

So what is your feedback?  Please click on the link below, and take our quick poll so we can better serve you.  Right now, the question of the day is whether the new look is better, or if we should return to the way this site appeared last week?

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I must say that this morning’s Enquirer has me totally confused.  It features a headline which reads ”Smitherman to run in defiance.” It seems to be based on a press statement issued yesterday from the local NAACP.  But I just re-read that statement three times, as well as The Enquirer article, and it really looks like the paper is just plain making things up!  I mean, I’ve been complaining about The Enquirer for some time, but it’s so strange to have the document in my hand, and to read their purely fictitious take on that same document!

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Community members who hate strong Black leadership (including African Americans who also hate strong Black leaders, for reasons almost impossible to fathom) have spent the last several weeks spreading a misinformation campaign about Christopher Smitherman’s upcoming campaign for City Council.  Along the way, The Cincinnati Beacon has tried to wade through the campaign season rhetoric—and finally it seems we are getting to the bottom of this whole mess.  It seems the anti-Smitherman klan have tried to create the impression that Smitherman was currently breaking the by laws of the NAACP.  This cannot be further from the truth.  So we present to you language from the by laws, so you can judge for yourself the nature of this contrived controversy.

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In this article, Councilmember Chris Bortz responds to an article posted at The Beacon entitled ”Chris Bortz:  Curb appeal more important than Constitution?” He provides follow-up to some potential misunderstandings from the poorly explained Enquirer article, and addresses issue of free speech access as well as newspaper rack placement.

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Latest council actions move beyond street benches, threaten free speech rights of newspapers.

In today’s Enquirer, this story about Chris Bortz’s desire to get rid of bench advertising flirts with a couple huge issues that are being overlooked.  Firstly, by trying to get rid of advertising benches placed in the public right-of-way, Bortz may be circumventing the constitutional right to free speech for the sake of curb appeal.  But perhaps more disconcerting are the things it appears Bortz and co. would like to disappear from our City’s streets—as evidenced by a memo from City Manager Milton Dahoney to City Council.

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Just south of the Metropolitan Sewer District—yes, that means —there are blocks of totally abandoned buildings.  This can’t really come as a surprise:  who wants to live next to a place that stinks like everybody’s poop?  But there may be another solution, a money making concept that takes adult entertainment and tucks it away in an adult district out of view of families and religious people.  This could provide an economic benefit to our City’s struggling budget.  Why have City Council fight over whether we can keep human service funding in the budget, or whether we can keep inner-city health clinics open, when a revenue stream could be secured to fund those things in perpetuity?

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This week, the NAACP held a ceremony to “bury” the N-word.  Also this week, I saw the following YouTube movie for the first time.  I don’t know what to make of both these things together!

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The CincyLatino Festival is a FREE 2-day regional community celebration designed to promote multicultural understanding and bring greater awareness of our growing and diverse Latino community. This event will appeal to people of all ages and backgrounds with continuous music with local musicians as well as nationally and internationally recognized entertainers. In addition to the music, the festival will also offer traditional and contemporary Latin American Cuisine, a marketplace with authentic arts and crafts, health and educational activities, and commercial exhibits.

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Does it seem strange to think of kids having indigestion?  Perhaps, but a relatively new product marketed by Deskey—a Cincinnati based branding company—quietly entered the kids’ medicine market a few years ago with Children’s Pepto.  And while different from the Pepto designed for adults, the move invites confusion as parents may not understand the difference between the two similar brands—and more importantly, they may not realize the health risk.  What should we think of corporate branding specialists who specifically target kids in this manner, especially when confusion could endanger young lives?

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Since his mayoral bid in 2005, frequent critics have issued a small number of complaints against Justin Jeffre—periodically accusing The Cincinnati Beacon of failing to force Jeffre to be held accountable.  Now that Kevin Osborne, at the CityBeat blog, has reported there are rumors that Jeffre is considering a run for County Commissioner (while also reiterating the small number of old complaints that keep recycling since 2005) The Beacon has decided to interrogate Jeffre, forcing him to address these so-called criticisms once and for all.

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Everyone has probably heard the oldest scare tactic in the book to get people to believe in God.  It goes something like this:  If you believe in God, and it turns out there is not one, nothing is lost upon death; however, if you do not believe in God, and it turns out there is one, you will suffer eternal damnation in Hell.  I wonder why Creationists don’t apply that thinking to the issue of Global Warming?  If one acts like there is Global Warming, and there is not, nothing is lost; however, if there is Global Warming, and one does nothing to stop it, we are all damned to an ice age and massive deaths!

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The recent letter from Tim Burke, Chair of the Hamilton County Democratic Party, illustrates the problem with Christopher Smitherman—particularly for the power of the Hamilton County Democrats in Cincinnati.  By announcing that he is running with the endorsement of the Southwest Ohio Green Party, Smitherman has blown open the exposure for alternative and progressive politics in the area.  Now, African Americans feeling like Democrats take them for granted have a choice other than Republicans.  So what might happen if Cincinnati’s black community gets hip to the Green Party?

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It seems The Enquirer’s editorial department—or at least the headline writer trying to keep his or her job—doesn’t know how to spin the accomplishment of the 20,000 signatures collected so far to place the imposed sales tax for a new jail on the November ballot.  We’ve collected some web fingerprints of two different headlines for the same story, one more negative than the other.  These show how deliberate is The Enquirer’s attempt to push their own agenda through their allegedly professional and objective “journalism.”

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When I first saw this article in the Sunday Enquirer, I thought I may need to issue a “real journalism alert.” I have seen Hamilton County Coroner O’dell Owens speak, and I know that the region’s suicide rate is higher than the homicide rate—a fact that few people seem to talk about. I went so far, a few months ago, as to send an email to the Coroner’s office asking for more details, but they didn’t respond and I didn’t follow up.  So I was pleased, momentarily, when I thought The Enquirer had taken on a real issue.  Instead, reporter Peggy O’Farrell provides one of the most fractured and incoherent pieces of drivel I’ve read in some time—combining interesting facts and quotes from the Coroner with melodrama, tabloid shock-and-awe, and overall bad writing.  And the real issue of death rates gets obscured by another example of The Enquirer trying to push a “made-you-look” story.

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Nate Livingston, the black guy who runs The Cincinnati Black Blog, has posted to The Cincinnati Enquirer’s continued spin regarding the proposal to build a great big new jail with an imposed sales tax against voter will.  Specifically, he analyzes the Enquirer’s recent opportunity for its editorial board to tour Queensgate.  As anyone could expect, the Enquirer found Queensgate totally inadequate, despite the fact it passed a recent state inspection and met all 62 standards.

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The recent list of reasons for the new jail plan that was sent out by Hamilton County Democratic Chair Tim Burke deserves a multi-point rebuttal, which The Cincinnati Beacon is proud to provide.  Here are his points, followed by the rebuttal.  Mr. Burke’s entire message can be seen here.

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Whatever your position on supernatural personifications of good and evil, the Answers in Genesis Creation Museum is the latest incarnation of pure evil that I have confronted for quite some time—dare I say it strikes me as the face of the devil itself.  For a while, I considered it nothing more than a fringe novelty, and I even thought of taking my son:  after all, his admission would be free and he loves asking questions about dinosaurs.  I thought it would be a good chance to behold the tragedy of that institution, while amusing my son at the same time.  Then, it hit me.  I need to keep my child from that ridiculous place at all costs!

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This afternoon, different organizations supporting Smitherman’s NAACP in its petition drive against the jail tax met on the steps of Chris Finney’s law office for a press conference.  Notable at the conference were some absences, including Chris Finney himself, as well as members of the FOP – who previously came out against the jail tax but have not made any public statements since Smitherman took the campaign’s lead.

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