Painful for Downtown

The loss of the Maisonette for Downtown will bring cheers in many quarters. Nate will jump for joy, one less white owned business to picket. Bronson will smile with glee, one more place of culture that will not be where those damn liberals live. He still will not go there unless someone else picks up the check. The rest of us will sigh and shake our heads with the usual disgust and disappointment in the city and in the region failing to work together. This morning we shall learn where it goes. Another location in the city has not bee ruled out, but no money has been promised by council. If it ends up in the city, someone else gave them a deal. Since there are few who care to do that, it will likely be going to NKY or a Suburban Mall.

UPDATE - 7PM: The Maisonette is going to Kenwood, fairly close to the Kenwood Mall. Will they totally loose all of the Downtown big-wig clients, celebrities, and tourists? Who would drive up to Kenwood for that? Are they instead going for Indian Hill crowd and hope for more frequent diners?

Also, yes, Nate is taking credit for this, and appears to be happy as a fly on shit.

George Voinovich Has Balls

In a surprise announcement today during a Senate hearing it was learned that U.S. Senator George Voinovich of Ohio has balls.

Tragedy on the Highway

The Beer Gods are angry

"It was a sad morning for beer drinkers and southbound Interstate 75 motorists alike today in Boone County.

A tractor-trailer carrying 47,000 pounds of beer tipped over near the Mount Zion Road interchange about 3 a.m., blocking the left two lanes, police said.

The lanes remained blocked throughout the morning while the beer was unloaded from the truck so it could be uprighted.

No injuries were reported."

The only thing that can appease me now is knowing that it was a really cheap light beer.

Are the Knives Out Against DeWine?

Peter Bronson's airing of Pat and Mike DeWine's dirty laundry regarding their political push to get Pat the GOP nomination are starting to ruffle some feathers. Does this represent the anti-DeWine movement that is simmering below the surface of the local GOP? Is this a social conservative effort? Is that where DeWine is considered weak? Are we seeing a similar effort to oust DeWine's congressional efforts as we saw with the successful effort to block Leslie Ghiz from being appointed to council, when she had earned the right to be appointed in any fair world? This isn't a fair world we are talking about however, this is internal GOP Politics, where power rules, and individuals are consumed like cannon fodder.

Berding on the Bubble?

The Post reports Jeff Berding is not a lock as a Democratic supported candidate. This is according to "members of the party's nominating committee." No names to go with the members, nor any numbers as to how many a "members" makes.

Could this be some of the far left leaning Dems throwing some dirt on Jeff Berding, who should be a well funded candidate? With Pepper and Reece out of the race, are the Dems going to fall short of fill a full slate of 9 candidates again? Who do they have so far, Cranley, Cole, Crowley? Samantha Herd will likely get an endorsement. Who else do the Dems have running?

We Have a Democrat

We now have some running for Portman's seat as a Democrat a barber, Russell Hurley. Well, he has no experience, no known source of funding, but he was able to get this much attention from the media, so that's a start.

He is fairly new to the area, which will be a negative, in amongst Dems.

Springer's Radio Gal Pal

Kimberly Shroyer of QCF has an interesting feature article on Megan Hils, the actress and talk radio diva in the making playing for a few laughs on Jerry Springer's radio show. I agree with Kimberly that Mils is very important to the overall production of the Springer-Galvin talk show. She does give them a youthful voice and perspective. Both guys are, almost to a flaw, very in tune with the youth of today. They just can't always connect with younger listeners. Also, well, you just need a gal to liven things up. Listening to Jene and Jerry talk about stuff could get boring to the MTVer's.