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I'm sure we'll probably end up back in Cincy- I love the city proper, and we both have all our friends and family there. Besides that- I'm kinda stubborn, and feel like it would be "cheating" just to move to a city that's more in line with my way of thinking, rather than do what I can to make my own city a better place, and find the good that is definitely there. Of course, I'm technically from Miami Twp, Clermont Co (just not much hope in fixing that place), but I've always considered myself to be a Cincinnatian.

Sometimes its nice to be stuck in this lovely blue county in SE Ohio for the next few years... I just wish the economy was better so I could get a real job in my field. Going to be hard going back to Cincy when my girlfriend finishes in a few years, if we go back to Cincy...

From WLWT: Huge Development Planned In Warren County 3,000 Homes Envisioned East Of Lebanon POSTED: 6:27 pm EDT September 24, 2004 UPDATED: 6:42 pm EDT September 24, 2004 LEBANON -- Suburban growth in the Tri-state is about to explode. WLWT's John London has uncovered plans for a huge new development just east of Lebanon, across I-71, in Warren County. Sources say the planned community would include a minimum of 3,000 homes -- ranging from $150,000 to $1 million estates -- with its own school, fire station and retirement village.

My girlfriend and I prefer C&E FoodFair on Richland- looks kind of dumpy but it's super cheap, and they have really good meat.

I miss Shadeau Bread. Great soup at lunch and a piece of excellent bread to go with it for just a few dollars. I freelanced last fall at a place on 14th Street, between Main and Sycamore. I felt pretty secure over there, even on late nights, but couldn't help but feel a bit uneasy walking further down on Main. Just not my kind of place I guess, though I love the buildings (the place I worked in was a converted beer warehouse, complete with the requisite hardwood floors, brick walls, and exposed ceiling). It wouldn't take a nation chain of any kind to bring me down there, in fact, it would ruin what I do like about the area. There are a lot of really cool independent shops on Main. I guess for me, and probably for a lot of people, its kind of a safety issue, or at least a perceived one. I really just don't feel comfortable voluntarily going somewhere when it seems like I'm always getting asked for money or if I want to buy drugs. That's defiantly why I stopped going on Short Vine.

I hadn't thought of this, but The Whistleblower today rasied an interesting and valid point about how the Mike Allen scandal could effect the presidential election: From The Whistleblower, Fri Sept 10th Edition: --> If local Republicans who couldn't get Pants-Dropping Prosecutor Mike Allen to resign for the good of the party think they look stupid now, just wait another 53 days till election night when Network TV news anchors like Dan Blather, Peter Jennings, and Tom Brokaw can't declare Bush a winner and blame it on them. Wouldn't it be funny if the race is still too close to call, since Ohio's 20 electoral votes won't yet be counted, due to the fact that every single ballot in Hamilton County had to be hand-counted to tally the write-in votes in the race for Hamilton County Prosecutor? This will be necessary since Horn Dog #81 failed to do the right thing when he didn't resign after getting his philandering ass sued for sexual harassment and his name appeared all over Boinking Becky's Diary.[/i]

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More about Mike Allen from The Whistleblower. ----- The Whistleblower Unbelieveably, Mike Allen has still not resigned! Tuesday, August 31, 2004 Real Faxes From Real Subscribers Sorry we can't give you more GOP Convention coverage, but the Case of the Pants-Dropping Prosecutor is much more important. --Local Kneepad Liberals in the Press Whenever anybody at the Convention asks about my successor's sleazy sexual affair, I always say how compassionate I feel. --"Jaywalking Joe" Deters Did everybody hear my breaking news on WLW Hate Radio Saturday, when I actually reported how Mike Allen called his floozie into his office, then asked her to expose her breasts so he could masturbate all over the Great Seal of Ohio on his carpet? --Bill Cunningham Using the word "masturbate" in our story did wonders for our Saturday ratings. --TV12 News If the prosecutor needs a new Whistleblower nickname, he can always have mine. --"Masturbating Mike" Barrett Our perverted prosecutor called to asked if I knew a good lawyer to represent him. --Archbishop Pilarczyk Have you noticed how far down you have to go in our coverage to find out Rebecca Collins ever worked at the E-P? --Skaggie Maggie E-P staffers are all in stiches over Boinking Becky's blushing virgin act, especially since all the guys around here called her Òthe News Hole." --Metro Mole Please tell Myopic Mike one bad side effect of using too much Viagra is how it affects your eyesight. --The FDA When he snuck in her house to have sex, did he enter by the back doo r? --Alex Blum If my husband and his trollop both appeared in my courtroom, which one should I hold in greater contempt? --Judge Lisa If our philandering prosecutor was doing YGR and Judge Lisa at the same time, would that give new meaning to double dipping at the courthouse? --Odd Todd Opportune So far I'm the only Republican at the courthouse with the balls to demand his resignation. --Judge Bankruptcy Bob Ruehlman We've all made mistakes. --Phil Burr-ass We challenge anybody to criticize his record of plea deals to make this community safer. --Allen's Enablers in the Prosecutor's Office At least I said over-taxed payers shouldn't pay his legal expenses. --"Taxkiller Tom" Brinkman If MIke had an ounce of integrity, he'd use some of his quarter million dollar campaign war chest to pay his own legal fees, since he won't be needing all that fat kat kash to run statewide now. --Auditor Dusty Rhodes Please don't ask why I never found an opponent to run against my old friend Mike. --Tim Burka, Demo-Labor Party Boss Please don't ask if anybody asked me if I had a couple of spare million lying around to pay off that Allen wench's Freking attorney. --Carl Lindner Having to admit he had an affair with a floozie really makes it harder for the rest of us Republicans to promote family values. --Jungle Fever Boy At least nobody's yet comparing those Ribald Republicans to us. --Quisling Charlie and Jerry Springer If I throw my hat in the ring to replace Allen, please don't mention my stripper story. --Judge Dinkelacker Not only did I just file a lawsuit seeking to have Mike Allen removed from office, but I also released letters seeking to have criminal charges brought against him as well as asking Governor Boob Taft to remove him from UC's Board of Trustees. --Nate "Rhymes With Hate" Livingston The worst part about the Allen Affair is it's keeping my really important speech at the GOP convention off the front page. --Goof Davis --Did Mike Allen really resign? --TV 19 News[/b]

This is from the Friday email edition of The Whistleblower, a daily fax/email newsletter in Cincy with some amazingly insider info. In the classic style of The Whistleblower, it's totally un-PC, and everyone has a great nickname. He called that all this was going to happen in the Thursday edition, which comes out Wednesday morning, which was well before anything was announced. --- There's what Mike Allen says, then there's what Mike Allen does! The Whistleblower Friday, August 27, 2004 Naming the Accuser Only five minutes after yesterday's Blower predicted a high-profile local politico was about to get his philandering ass sued for sexual harassment, Hamilton County's pants-dropping prosecutor called a press conference. Coincidence? We think not. So today, in keeping with our policy of naming the accuser while respecting the privacy of the accused, we're bringing you the top ten lines overheard when "Merciful Mike" Allen finally did his long-overdue Jimmy Swaggart impersonation: 10. "I have sinned." 9. "I DID have sex with that woman we'll call Rebecca 'The News Hole' Collins." 8. "Jerry Springer said I could be on his TV show now." 7. "I am NOT a gay American." 6. "Am I using the word 'consensual' often enough?" 5. "At least my floozie was white, unlike Jungle Fever Boy's." 4. "How do you think this will affect my plans to be governor?" 3. "Am I still Southwest Ohio Chairman for the Bush campaign?" 2. "Will this change my Whistleblower nickname?" ...And the number one line overheard when "Merciful Mike" Allen finally did his long overdue Jimmy Swaggart impersonation was... "I sure hope they're not assigning the lawsuit to my wife, Judge Lisa."