Word: cincinnati
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July 26th—The entire Cincinnati Reds rotation is traded to the Baltimore Orioles for three sticks of bubble gum and two packs of sunflower seeds. It is too bad that a powerful team like the Reds have such a horrible pitching staff. All of the offensive output of Sean Casey, Ken Griffey Jr. and Adam Dunn will be wasted. It is kinda like the Texas Rangers from last year, only worse. Did you see who started Opening Day for the Reds? Oh, the ever-impressive Joey Hamilton. Who? Yeah, that’s right...
...bickering in Congress, the President realized his number one domestic priority amidst a crowd of onlookers at an Ohio public school. "As of this hour, America's schools will be on a new path of reform and a new path of results," Bush said at Hamilton High School, near Cincinnati. "From this day forward, all students will have a better chance to learn, to excel and to live out their dreams...
This is the plight facing Tom and June Fisher, a Cincinnati, Ohio, couple with three children. Though both Tom and June worked in an auto-parts factory, they still could not afford their rented trailer and had to move out. A state agency has placed the family temporarily in a motel room and pays part of the $45-a-night tab. June now cleans rooms in the motel, and Tom works in a sports bar. But it's a struggle. The family shares two double beds, a cot and one chair; toys and school books are stored underneath the beds...
...Sept. 26 Cincinnati Police Officer Steven Roach was found not guilty of negligent homicide in the shooting of Timothy Thomas, 19, whose death touched off three days of riots in late April. "I still don't know the truth," said Thomas' mother, Angela Leisure. "I still have no satisfaction." Leisure has filed wrongful-death and civil rights suits naming the police and Roach. Scattered violence followed the verdict, and Mayor Charlie Luken imposed a curfew. But the city has largely remained calm...
Calm, but not serene. Roach was one of three white officers recently acquitted of crimes against black men killed in confrontations with Cincinnati cops--outcomes that did nothing to heal the city's racial rifts. "You've got a lot of African Americans who won't give the officers a chance to change, and you have a lot of officers who won't let African Americans change. How do you bridge that gap?" asks Walter White, an African-American resident...