Citizen Watchdog with Todd Zinser

The “Citizen Watchdog with Todd Zinser” podcast was started in February 2025 with the help and encouragement of legendary radio producer Joe Strecker. Its focus is on the programs, operations and policies of the City of Cincinnati. Its purpose is to share research and observations with the public from a government oversight perspective.

This website is intended to be a companion to the podcast. The goal is to provide a research library with source documents related to the podcasts, such as city reports, planning documents, council motions and ordinances voted on by the city council.

The website is also a way to organize and store my own research and other work including published commentaries; correspondence with city hall; media postings; and a general blog.

I thought the quote from Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson fit well with  our overall objective.

“Every person must be his own watchman for truth, because our forefathers did not trust any government to separate the true from the false for us.”