Fraze’s 2012 Summer Lineup By Jordan Mills Pleasant Mention the Fraze Pavilion, and you might turn some heads. That’s because everyone knows how amazing a venue the Fraze really is — boasting a track record which includes some of the most notable bands to visit Dayton, almost everyone in the Miami Valley region, and certainly [...]
Buffalo Jack’s Offers Unique Exotic Game By Jordan Mills Pleasant This is the season for cookouts. If your buddy invites you over for hotdogs, you might take him up on it. If your neighbors offer you a hamburger, you might stay a while and visit. But what if someone offered you a buffalo burger? Elk [...]
Hip-hop Innovator Beedie Speaks Out By Jordan Mills Pleasant The name Brian Benjamin Green doesn’t turn as many heads as the name Beedie, although they refer to the same person: an American rapper and hip-hop artist based in Pittsburgh who has many reasons to expect a bright future in the music industry. Beedie was originally [...]
Making Poetry Public By Jordan Mills Pleasant For the most part, the term “poetry” falls on deaf ears — even for the average reader in 2012, the term is less significant than it once was. Over the course of the last 50 years, poetry has in many ways been relegated to a very specialized part [...]
Federal Birth Control Mandate Vs. Religious Freedom A recent decision by the Obama administration is putting it at odds with the Catholic Church and the social issue conservatives. The political battle lines have been drawn over a provision in the 2010 healthcare bill which required health insurance to cover basic preventative services dealing with pregnancy [...]
Was the Keystone XL Pipeline an Election Year Casualty? In late 2011 the President announced that he was delaying any decision on whether or not to approve the Keystone Pipeline XL project until 2013, after the next presidential election. In December 2011, Congress voted to give the Obama Administration a 60-day deadline to make a [...]
Obama Uses Recess Appointment to Bypass Congress on Cordray On January 4th, President Obama named Richard Cordray director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CPFB). Using an appointment process known as a “recess appointment,” one made while Congress is in recess, Obama appointed Cordray to the post. He used the “recess appointment” because Republican senators [...]
Famed Star Aims to “Destroy” Dayton with Laughter By Jason Webber Jim Breuer will always be remembered for his character Goat Boy and his perfect send up of Joe Pesci during his four-year run on Saturday Night Live, as well as his co-starring role in the ‘90s cult film Half Baked. But Breuer’s post-millennium comedy [...]
The Dayton Ballet Gets Ready for Valentine’s Day By Jordan Pleasant Dayton Ballet’s 2011-2012 sequence of performances continues February 9 -12, 2012, with The Romance Series. Filled with all things love, just in time for Cupid’s holiday, each of the three pieces on the bill displays a different dialect of dance — all based in [...]
High Fructose Corn Syrup By Megan Garrison The FDA recently rejected a bid to officially change the name of high [...]
Walker was Victorious in Wisconsin Because His Reforms Worked By David H. Landon The folks at MSNBC had a bad [...]
It Takes More than a Tweet By Rana Odeh The victory of Republican Governor Scott Walker over Milwaukee Democrat Mayor [...]
What are the Consequences of Recall Election in Wisconsin? Last Tuesday, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) prevailed in an unusual [...]
Obama’s Support of Same Sex Marriage Will Cost Him Swing States By David H. Landon By Election Day, the President’s [...]
President Obama Announces Support of Same-Sex Marriage Most pundits believe that this Presidential election will be decided on the issue [...]
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Commentary Forum Center, 2/7/12
SOPA, PIPA, and Policing Internet Piracy Online piracy costs U.S. copyright owners and producers billions of dollars every year, but legislation in Congress to block foreign Internet thieves and swindlers has met strong resistance from high-tech companies. There’s a strong argument that more needs to be done to protect artists, innovators and industries from copyright [...]