The Queen City Post is an independent Cincinnati satirical publication covering local government, local happenings, neighborhood tension, ceremonial optimism, and the people making all of that happen, for better or worse.
We focus on the institutions, habits, and recurring public frustrations that shape life in Greater Cincinnati. That includes City Hall, development announcements, transit debates, regional identity issues, seasonal traditions, and the steady production of official language meant to keep everything sounding under control.
Our work is rooted in satire, parody, and commentary. The stories are fictional, exaggerated, and written with a straight face, but they are often built around familiar places, recognizable patterns, and the general mood of living here.
The Queen City Post exists to document Cincinnati as accurately as possible, even when the facts occasionally need help reaching their full civic potential.
We cover the city as best we can.
Editor’s Note
Cincinnati is a city with strong opinions, durable habits, multiple overlapping identities, and a remarkable ability to produce official language for situations that clearly got out of hand several meetings ago.
The Queen City Post was created to cover that reality in the format it arguably deserves: calm, professional, and increasingly unreasonable.
Our stories are satirical. They are not meant to be read as factual accounts of real events. They are meant to reflect the rhythms of local public life, the tone of civic messaging, and the familiar feeling that everyone involved would prefer to issue a statement rather than explain what happened.
We appreciate everyone who reads, shares, sends tips, or politely forwards us the latest example of Cincinnati becoming difficult to summarize.
— The Queen City Post