On my list of “Game Show Hosts I’d Like to See as President,” Donald Trump is now near the bottom. I’d walk door-to-door with Draft Alex Trebek petitions, before I’d consider voting for a grown man who refers to himself in the passive third-person. Until this week, though I really didn’t have such strong feelings […]
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Rick Robinson: Lyrics From Kentucky-Based Song at Center of Lawsuit
And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County Down by the green river where Paradise lay? Well, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in asking Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away. In 1971, American folk-legend John Prine released a song entitled “Paradise” about his childhood memories of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky […]
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For Latest Political Thriller, NKY Author Embedded Self in DC’s Gay Scene
This article originally appeared in the May/June issue of UNiTE Cincinnati magazine. Rick Robinson may not fit the profile of an author with his finger on the pulse of gay culture, and he knows this. So when the former legislative director to former Northern Kentucky Congressman and Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning, a Republican, chose Washington, […]
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Rick Robinson: An Exceptional Game to End the Worst Year in Pro Sports History
Having jumped the shark the year Up With People sang in Pontiac, Michigan, the Super Bowl ceased to be relevant to me about the time I quit understanding the Roman numerals designating the given year. I was in Pontiac. My childhood pal, Jimmy Lokesak, and I drove through an ice storm to get to Super […]
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Rick Robinson: A Soliloquy to Smoking in Northern Kentucky
Act III, Scene I To ban, or not to ban – that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of unwanted cigarette smoke Or to take arms against a sea of those so addicted, And by opposing end them. To cough- to […]
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Baseball & Politics Collide in New Thriller by Local Authors. Get a Signed Copy Monday!
A crazed Chicago Cubs fan will do anything to guarantee a championship, and the President of the United States has a childhood secret that puts the Oval Office and lives at risk. Killing The Curse is the new sports-political thriller by Northern Kentucky authors Dennis Hetzel and Rick Robinson. They will host a book launch event […]
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Baseball & Politics Collide in New Thriller by Local Authors. Get a Signed Copy Monday!
A crazed Chicago Cubs fan will do anything to guarantee a championship, and the President of the United States has a childhood secret that puts the Oval Office and lives at risk. Killing The Curse is the new sports-political thriller by Northern Kentucky authors Dennis Hetzel and Rick Robinson. They will host a book launch event […]
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Rick Robinson: The Worst Campaign Gaffes from 2014
Our long national nightmare is over. Yard signs are in the dumpster. The mailman is delivering Christmas circulars instead of postcards with grainy black-and-white photos of candidates in embarrassing poses. And robo-calls now mostly plug the latest deal from Omaha Steaks — uhmmmm, steaks. The 2014 mid-term elections are history. May they rest in peace. […]
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Rick Robinson: The Worst Campaign Gaffes from 2014
Our long national nightmare is over. Yard signs are in the dumpster. The mailman is delivering Christmas circulars instead of postcards with grainy black-and-white photos of candidates in embarrassing poses. And robo-calls now mostly plug the latest deal from Omaha Steaks — uhmmmm, steaks. The 2014 mid-term elections are history. May they rest in peace. […]
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Rick Robinson: Fly Frontier for a Great Flight (and a Better CVG)
Back in my days at Eastern Kentucky University, I occasionally took the Greyhound back home. Watching Morgan Freeman expatriate the US via a bus trip to join Andy DuFresane in Mexico makes bus travel seem epic. My experiences on the road were hardly so romantic. Surrounded by chain-smoking passengers, we seemingly stopped at ever little town between Covington […]