The Cincinnati Black Blog

09/29/2025

I predict this will be the #1 topic when Lincoln Ware goes on air at 10 o’clock on 1230am The BUZZ.

So many questions. Here are a few from me. What questions do you have?

1. The complaint says ROSEMARY OGLESBY-HENRY pointed a 🔥💪🏾 in the bedroom at KEVIN FARMER. Why was Kevin in her bedroom? 👀

2. Rosemary is a Republican candidate for Congress. How long before she drops out of the race? 😖

3. Will the board of her non-profit Rosemary’s Babies fire her? Will donors stop donating? Will this be the end of that organization? Shouldn’t someone have thought about the teen mothers before they got to fighting? You can bet there’s going to be a lot of scrutiny put on that non-profit. I hope they’ve got their stuff in order.

4. Kevin Farmer is a longshot, unendorsed-Republican Cincinnati City Council candidate. Will he have the good sense and decency to drop out of the race and get his act (and mental health) together?

5. Will Republicans, including Black MAGA, support Rosemary or Kevin? Or will they abandon them both?

6. The Cincinnati police and white media refused to release the names of white people who fought in the . It took independent journalist and internet sleuths to identify HOLLYWOOD HOLLY Elizabeth Bundy Reichard, white Russian ALEXANDER TCHERVINSKI (aka The Slapper), and court-labelled “Habitual Alcoholic” GREGORY DRISCOLL. So why have they released the name of the alleged victim in this case? Is Marsy’s Law only for white people?

09/28/2025

The white media in Cincinnati is tearing Black people up. WCPO (Channel 9) recently did an I-Team report on IRIS ROLEY. Today, The Cincinnati Enquirer published a scandalous report on RAMONE DAVENPORT. 😳

Still no deep dive into notorious bad white people like RICHARD ‘Dick Kip’ GUINAN — the chief criminal prosecutor for Hamilton County under CLUELESS CONNIE Pillich.

People need to know the truth about Dick Kip Guinan.

• He worked for DIRTY JOE Deters. His job was to prosecute crimes, including DUI and OVI. One day, Dick Kip Guinan went to a party with other prosecutors, drank alcohol, and knowing better (since he prosecuted drunk drivers as part of his job) got behind the wheel and drove drunk. He got caught. If law enforcement had caught him in Hamilton County, they probably wouldn’t have arrested him. Thank God he got busted in Butler County. Dirty Joe Deters let Dick Kip Guinan keep his job and the benefits that go with it, he just moved him to another department. Was that white privilege? 🤷🏾

• Dirty Joe Deters was quoted in the newspaper saying Dick Kip Guinan was INSUBORDINATE. That didn’t stop Dirty Joe Deters from keeping Dick Kip Guinan emoloyed and it didn’t stop Clueless Connie Pillich from re-hiring Dick Kip when (thanks in large part to Black voters) she became the first Democrat elected county prosecutor in 100 years.

• Dick Kip Guinan went before Judge ETHNA COOPER and admitted he LIED to her. Did Judge Cooper punish Dick Kip Guinan for lying to her? Nope. She took him and the prosecutor into her chamber and, in violation of Ohio’s Open Meetings Act and the rules that govern courtrooms, held a secret with Dick Kip.

• As far as I can tell, Dick Kip Guinan wasn’t investigated by the Cincinnati Bar Association and/or The Ohio Supreme Court’s Disciplinary Counsel. Why? 🧐 Judges and attorneys have a duty to report misconduct of other lawyers. So why wasn’t Dick Kip turned in by Judge Cooper and the other lawyer who heard him admit to lying to a judge?

• About 3 weeks ago, Dick Kip Guinan smeared a Black judge. 😡 Dick Kip is quoted in The Enquirer calling a very legal action taken by Judge ALAN C. TRIGGS (a good Black man) ILLEGAL.

• Black people remember what they did to Judge TRACIE MARIE HUNTER for allegedly doing things that were illegal. We aren’t going to be silent while Black leaders, including Black judges, are attacked. We are going to challenge the institutions that are supposed to police attorney ethics to do their jobs. Every lawyer who read Dick Kip Guinan’s knowingly false, undignified, discourteous, degrading statement concerning Judge Triggs’ integrity had a duty to report Dick Kip Guinan’s misconduct. The Cincinnati Bar Association has a duty to police its members. The Ohio Supreme Court Office of Disciplinary Counsel is AWOL.

• Clueless Connie Pillich let a small handful of angry, loud white people pressure her into violating Black Attorney RYAN NELSON’s First Amendment right to speak freely about CHARLIE KIRK. Ryan was forced t resign. But Clueless Connie hasn’t fired Dick Kip Guinan for smearing Judge Triggs. Why? 🤬

Financial oversight issues, inflated enrollment reports mirror other charter schools' concerns.

09/27/2025

Update No. 1 for Saturday, September 27.

Why haven't Jon Vogt, the Cincinnati Bar Association, and/or The Cincinnati Enquirer chastised Clueless Connie Pillich for backing bad behavior by her assistant prosecutor like they did when Melissa Powers did it? 🚨 {Make sure you scroll to the bottom for a surprising twist.} 🚨

Flashback to one year ago. The Enquirer ran a guest column by Attorney Jon Vogt. I've attached a screenshot to this post. Because I'm not sure that the font is readable, I'll extensively quote from it.

*** Begin Quote
"As a lawyer, when you're on the losing side of an objection, you respectfully make your record and then sit down. You win some, you lose some. It's part of the job. WHAT YOU DON'T DO IF YOU ARE OVERRULED IS QUESTION OR LECTURE THE JUDGE.

Yet, in a sanctioned breach of protocol, that is exactly what an assistant Hamilton County prosecutor recently did, as highlighted in a recent Enquirer article covering bond settings....



For Hamilton County Prosecutor Melissa Powers to back the inappropriate behavior of her assistant prosecutor and attack Judge Silverstein in her comments to the Enquirer represents a stunning lack of judgment and character. THE CINCINNATI BAR ASSOCIATION recently issued an unprecedented statement asking its members to "calm down actions that could incite violence" against judges after members of the Hamilton County judiciary received death threats.

The Bar Association also dutifully reminded its members of their responsibility to follow the Rules of Professional Conduct, which includes rules against attorneys engaging in undignified or discourteous conduct against a judge, and against making statements questioning the qualifications or integrity of a judge. For attorneys, following the rules is not optional. We all take an oath to do so when we are admitted to the bar."
*** End Quote

So, when a smart-mouthed assistant prosecutor said something about Judge SAMANTHA SILVERSTEIN (who I'm told is a very nice white lady), the Cincinnati Bar Association took action. They issued an "unprecedented" statement to attorneys/lawyers. They reminded them of their responsibility to follow the Rules of Professional Conduct. (Behind the scenes, they most likely initiated disciplinary proceedings against the assistant prosecutor.)

JON VOGT wrote a lengthy op ed in the local newspaper. Enquirer Executive Editor BERYL LOVE and Opinion Page Editor KEVIN ALDRIDGE had to approve Vogt's op ed for it to appear in the paper.

One year later, MELISSA POWERS has been replaced by Clueless CONNIE PILLICH. 👍🏾

Clueless Connie's hand-picked Chief Criminal Prosecutor RICHARD 'Dick Kip' GUINAN disagreed with a decision made by Judge ALAN C. TRIGGS. 👌🏾

Dick Kip Guinan was plain wrong about the law. The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that a judge has a right to review a grand jury transcript. (See, Daher v. Cuyahoga Community College Dist., 155 Ohio St.3d 271, 2018-Ohio-4462.) ✔️

Dick Kip Guinan was quoted in the Sept 8, 2025 edition of The Enquirer calling Judge Triggs' actions "illegal" even though he knew his degrading statement concerning the integrity of Judge Triggs was false.

Just as Melissa Powers backed up her assistant, Clueless Connie has backed up Dick Kip Guinan. Clueless Connie hasn't fired Dick Kip. She hasn't forced Dick Kip to resign (like she did to RYAN NELSON for exercising his right to free speech). She hasn't denounced Dick Kip's statements or made him publicly apologize. Clueless Connie's actions prove that she backs Dick Kip Guinan's bad behavior. 👊🏾💥

Where is WENDE CROSS and the Hamilton County judiciary? They stood up for Judge Silverstein so why haven't they done the same for Judge Triggs? 🤷🏾‍♂️

Where is the Cincinnati Bar Association? Why haven't they issued a new statement or even dusted off the one from last year and re-released it? 🤔 The Cincinnati Bas Association has a grievance committee. That grievance committee has been certified by the Supreme Court of Ohio to investigate complaints against attorneys who practice in Hamilton County. They can also investigate attorneys without an outside complaint. Dick Kip Guinan obviously practices in Hamilton County. So, where's the investigation of Dick Kip Guinan? 🧐

Finally, where is JONATHON RILL VOGT? According to the Supreme Court's Attorney Directory he works in ... wait for it ... Clueless Connie's office. 🤯

09/27/2025

Cincinnati Enquirer News Writer KEVIN GRASHA finally got around to reporting on Hamilton County Assistant Prosecutor RYAN NELSON.

The paper says Ryan Nelson had been on administrative leave ever since the white woman who runs the FOP-aligned Signal 99 page went after him for a social media post he made about CHARLIE KIRK, and Ryan "formally resigned" earlier today (Friday September 26). They got another scalp. 😔

The newspaper says the office of Hamilton County Prosecutor CLUELESS CONNIE Pillich declined to comment about Ryan's resignation.

The article failed to discuss whether a government official like Clueless Connie can fire (or force the resignation of) a government employee based on a social media post without violating the First Amendment. That's strange considering the issue of employees being fired or forced to resign over social media posts about Charlie Kirk is being discussed by news organizations all over the country, AND the fact that Enquirer Executive Editor BERYL LOVE just published an opinion column on this issue earlier today.

The Enquirer didn't tell readers if Ryan was forced to resign (or if they even asked about this). They do quote from his resignation letter. "Nelson's letter also says additional complaints were made about him while he was on administrative leave. He said the complaints lacked "full context and nuance" but "their mere existence, in combination with outside pressures, has compromised my ability to effectively perform my duties as a leader, a mentor, a coworker and a friend at the standard that I hold myself to."" ✊🏾

I guess no one should be surprised that the lazy, local, biased newspaper didn't examine if and/or why there's a double standard in Clueless Connie's office -- Ryan (a Black man) had to resign from his position for expressing his opinion about a non-lawyer or judge in a private social media post while RICHARD 'Dick Kip' GUINAN (a white dude) hasn't been forced to resign or fired (or disciplined at all) for making a false and degrading statement about Judge ALAN C. TRIGGS in The Enquirer on September 8, 2025. 👊🏾💥

This has been your 2nd Update for Friday, September 26.

Ryan Nelson resigned in an email sent Friday, Sept. 26, after his social media posts about the killing of Charlie Kirk were flagged.

09/26/2025

Cincinnati Enquirer Executive Editor BERYL LOVE is full of 💩.

1. Beryl Love is WRONG about the law.

Dude wrote: "The First Amendment won’t protect you if you’re dealing in HATE speech, obscenity, or other forms of expression the courts have determined fall outside of our First Amendment protections."

1a. How can the executive editor of the local newspaper not know that the U.S. Supreme Court has consistently held that HATE SPEECH is protected by the 1st Amendment when his newspaper spent years lecturing the Black community about how we should be quiet while the K*K (Ku Klux Klan) paraded around Fountain Square calling Black people every derogatory name in the book and threatening to kill us? The Klan hid behind Cincinnati police while they spewed "fighting words" -- a type of speech that isn't protected?

1b. How can Beryl not be tuned into the national conversation around U.S. Attorney Pam Bondi having to walk back her statement saying hate speech isn't protected by the 1st Amendment?

2. Beryl Love, The Enquirer, and the rest of Cincinnati's lazy, local, biased media refuses to report on racially discriminatory actions taken by the county prosecutor.

Beryl Love wrote: "Freedom of speech in America means the government can’t punish you for what you say, nor can it stifle the open exchange of ideas, even ones critical of elected leaders. Your employer is a different story."

What if your employer IS the government?

Beryl Love said he reads every email he receives. 👌🏾Our founder and publisher, Nathaniel Livingston, has personally sent emails to Beryl Love and The Enquirer notifying them that the county prosecutor, CLUELESS CONNIE Pillich, who is a government official, punished a Black man named RYAN NELSON by firing him from his government position as assistant prosecutor for exercising his freedom of speech about CHARLIE KIRK. If the NEWSpaper was interested in reporting the NEWS why haven't they published a news report about Ryan Nelson's firing.

Beryl Love and The Enquirer also know about statements made by a white prosecutor that aren't protected by the First Amendment, yet they refuse to report this news to their readers.

White assistant prosecutor RICHARD 'Dick Kip' GUINAN was quoted in a Sept 8 Enquirer news report saying Judge Alan Triggs (a Black man) issued an order that was "illegal." Again, Guinan's comments are not protected by the 1st Amendment. In fact, they violate several of Ohio's Rules of Professional Conduct -- rules that all attorneys must abide by.

Enquirer Executive Editor Beryl Love explains why rejecting some opinion pieces about Charlie Kirk is not censorship.

12/07/2024

The Cincinnati Black Blog is back. A new report just dropped. The question is: did Evan Nolan offer Meeka Owens a bribe? Did he buy a seat on Cincinnati City Council?

Did Evan Nolan Buy Seat On Cincinnati City Council? Did Evan Nolan offer Meeka Owens a bribe?