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MAY 2008

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Sweating Equity: Your Guide to Surviving a Rough Real Estate Market Do. Not. Panic. Yes, it’s a confounding world for home sellers and buyers. Is it too soon to buy? Too late to refinance? Is anything selling? We’ve got the answers to help you make your way through the real estate market, and we take a close look at 15 neighborhoods with big benefits. Plus: Check out our annual report on home sale prices in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. Edited by Amanda Boyd Walters

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Out of the Money Behind the drama of the Sport of Kings is a hard-scrabble cast of itinerant, uninsured laborers and their families. UC doc Joe Kiesler has started a volunteer clinic at River Downs that is bringing health care to track workers and hope to the backstretch. By Jenny Wohlfarth

It's His Party and He'll Cry If He Wants To John Boehner smokes. He golfs. He stages Capitol Hill dramas while struggling to steer the GOP back on track. He also has a surprising predilection for bursting into tears. Can he lead his party back to happier times? By Daniel Libit
PLUS: With a Little Help From His Friends How a few former lobbyists helped John Boehner get his start in politics.

Unfinished Lives Five years ago, photojournalist Melvin Grier was seized by an idea: photograph the makeshift memorials at homicide scenes and share the pain. His haunting world of faded flowers and weather-worn teddy bears is a bitter ode to the city’s senseless violence. Text by Kathy Y. Wilson
Photographs by Melvin Grier

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Newsmaker Robert Johnson’s prairie-tinged music meets the CSO

City View The glory of Pig feats

Intersection High St. & Beech St., Oxford

At Your Service Roofer Dave Molloy has you covered

Escape Louisville’s glorious May Day

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West Side Story Q: Was cornhole born here? A: Does it matter?

Arts & Minds The brilliant young minds behind Country Club gallery