On the Townies

In 2005 I resolve to engage more local issues, and be a more participatory member of the community. But the local media and blogosphere is often filled with more maneuvering and acrimony than a Lutheran picnic.

Once this publication worked with this one, but then it was splitsville. Another particularly vocal character calls himself 'The Dean' and bills his website as "Cincinnati's Intellectual Headquarters" (What a relief. I'd been driving around looking for that.) And then, of course, Brian Griffin runs the eponymous town blog.

Cincinnati needs more voices, and variety that reaches beyond the basic liberal or conservative polarities. Bring on the socialist grandmothers, one-armed survivalist lesbians, and Afro-Caribbean greens. I'll take anything unexpected.