By Don Mooney July 31, 2025 Column, Summer 2025 Is Cincinnati Ready for President Vance? JD Vance may follow a similar path to former VP William Howard Taft By Don Mooney When JD and Usha…
By Don Mooney May 15, 2024 Column, Spring 2024 A ‘Favorite Son’ Fizzles Vivek Ramaswamy’s run for president ended with a whimper Greater Cincinnati native Vivek Ramaswamy launched his 2024 presidential campaign with…
By Terry Troy October 30, 2023 Fall 2023 A Modern Day Cincinnatus? Meet Vivek Ramaswamy, our city’s controversial favorite son He is outspoken, controversial, but never apologetic. He has been described as…
By Don Mooney October 26, 2023 Column, Fall 2023 Justice Delayed? Or Waylaid? Local politicians set example for trajectory of Trump’s upcoming trials As a crusty old lawyer leaning to the blue side,…
By Don Mooney July 27, 2023 Column, Summer 2023 Is Cincinnati’s Mayor Office a Political Dead End? Aftab Pureval is running for mayor again, but his future afterward remains unclear In March, Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval made…
By Don Mooney March 23, 2023 Column, Spring 2023 Cincinnati Rail Wars? Status of rail line sale up in the air “Pardon me boys, is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo?” No. It’s…
By Bill Ferguson Jr. March 23, 2023 Column, Spring 2023 Red to Blue in One Generation Democrats hold 9 of 11 Hamilton County-wide offices in a total flip from 30 years ago Just 30 years ago,…
By Don Mooney January 11, 2023 Column, Winter 2023 The Best and Worst of Times 2022 Election both a win and a loss for local political parties Hamilton County party poobahs reflecting on November’s elections…
By Don Mooney June 23, 2022 Column, Summer 2022 Fighting Back Can Ohio Democrats survive the red tide in 2022? It seems not long ago when I celebrated Barack Obama’s 2008…
By Don Mooney December 23, 2021 Column, Winter 2022 What We Learned From the 2021 Elections Another View By Don Mooney: All politics is not local; voters turn out for issues, not candidates The dust has…