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Living la vida local

One Daytonian’s attempt to support her local economy By Jennifer Hanauer When my illustrious editor approached me to do a story on buying local, challenging me to go “locavore” for a week and share my findings, I got totally stoked. I’d heard the term bandied about among the more involved of my friends, and I’d [...]

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Game on, iPhone off

Dayton leads region in analog entertainment options By Jennifer Hanauer We are plugged in. We have traded our books for Nooks, handwritten letters for thumb-typed text messages, and hefty family photo albums for the ease and tagability of Facebook pics. News and events are constantly streaming at us from multiple technologies with such mind-bending velocity [...]

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Making change creative

A wrap-up of updayton’s 2011 Young Creatives Summit By Jennifer Hanauer Want to know the difference between dying and surviving? The will to live. Do not try to tell any of the attendees of updayton’s Third Annual Young Creatives Summit that Dayton is a dying city; you WILL get rocked. Updayton, formed in 2008 with [...]

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With a coupon a day …

A ‘very’ scientific investigation into the real discounts of e-commerce sites like Groupon and LivingSocial By Jen Hanauer Groupon Daily Deal for Dayton: $119 Tandem Jump with Start Skydiving, worth: $239, discount: 50%, savings: $120. Wait, do you mean to tell me I can save 50%, 120 dollars of my hard-earned money, off a tandem [...]

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Spotlight

High Fructose Corn Syrup By Megan Garrison The FDA recently rejected a bid to officially change the name of high [...]

Forum Right, 6/12

Walker was Victorious in Wisconsin Because His Reforms Worked By David H. Landon The folks at MSNBC had a bad [...]

Forum Left, 6/12

It Takes More than a Tweet By Rana Odeh The victory of Republican Governor Scott Walker over Milwaukee Democrat Mayor [...]

Forum Center, 6/12

What are the Consequences of Recall Election in Wisconsin? Last Tuesday, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) prevailed in an unusual [...]

Forum Right, 5/29/12

Obama’s Support of Same Sex Marriage Will Cost Him Swing States By David H. Landon By Election Day, the President’s [...]

Forum Center, 5/29/12

President Obama Announces Support of Same-Sex Marriage Most pundits believe that this Presidential election will be decided on the issue [...]