Winning feels good The Dragons keep marching in By Marc Katz It was legendary broadcaster Vin Scully—with plenty of others to follow—who said, “Losing feels worse than winning feels good.” Imagine how the Dayton Dragons felt last season, when they lost 93 out of 140 played. Imagine how they feel this year, when they’ve already […]
Preserve, protect, de-friend Is Trump’s Twitter a public forum? Artwork: Nate Beeler By Sarah Sidlow Newsflash: President Trump loves Twitter. A lot. And his fondness for the Little Blue Bird has raised a lot of questions: Can tweets be official statements? Should Trump be using his personal account in the capacity of the president? What […]
Bust warning ‘Big 5’ tech giants predict the crash By Mark Luedtke Friday, June 9 was a bad day for tech giants and therefore everybody in the stock market. Yahoo writes, “The so-called ‘big five’—Apple, Alphabet [Google’s mother company] Class A shares, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon [FAAMGs]—lost more than $97.5 billion in market value between […]
Ch. 7’s Ken Jefferson keeps sharing stories By Jim Bucher I don’t know about anyone else, but I miss the wonderful storytelling of former WHIO Channel 7 anchor/reporter Ken Jefferson. In all my years on local TV, I strived to be a better writer. Not sure if that was accomplished, especially with the prose and […]
Field of vision Reporting ‘the best attainable version of the truth’ By Marc Katz Years ago, when I was still an everyday working journalist, I remember a friendly athletics director—Jim Jones at Ohio State—who used to say, “Never get in an argument with someone who buys ink by the barrel.” That was his way of […]
Buch and The Beatles Hey gang, Kirky here with Beatlemania By Jim Bucher It’s “Strawberry Fields” forever! Lemme explain. I’m reliving my early childhood with the recent launch of SiriusXM’s The Beatles Channel. It is all Beatles, all the time, with outtakes, rare interviews, and alternate takes on the Fab Four’s classic hits. Now let […]
The guns on the bus… RTA allows licensed weapons By Sarah Sidlow Forget bus fare—riders hoping to board Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority (RTA) buses must now also show proof of a valid Ohio Concealed Handgun License with their ticket to ride. That is, if they want to bring a gun aboard. You read that […]
Failure, for some Another successful terrorist attack By Mark Luedtke Not long ago, Great Britain passed the West’s most oppressive spy law. Even the mainstream media acknowledges that. Last November Newsweek wrote, “The U.K.’s Investigatory Powers Bill, also known as the Snooper’s Charter, is an extraordinary document. It grants the state the ability to harvest […]
The thinker Gord Lane reflects on hockey, life off the ice By Marc Katz Long after the lights flickered off at Hara Arena following a Dayton Gems practice, and well after many of the players had already stripped their gear, showered away the day’s sweat, and were on their way to a mid-day beer at […]
By Michelle Strauss Music man In a local apartment complex, alarms went off and alerted the police that a robbery […]
What a mouthful Believe it or not, in a local residence, a boyfriend kept his girlfriend’s dentures hostage. Earlier […]
New Picasso? A woman came home from work one sunny afternoon to find her house awry. She frantically observed a […]
By Michelle Strauss Means of transportation When a woman arrived home from work she noticed something rather peculiar: a man […]
By Michelle Strauss Wii the people A woman decided to go outside to take her evening smoke. Inside her residence, […]
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Portlandia Free speech, hate speech, loud jerks By Sarah Sidlow When one loud jerk started verbally harassing two young women on a train in Portland, Oregon, three good Samaritans stood up to stop him. The loud jerk was yelling racist slurs. One of the young women is African-American; the other was wearing a hijab. Two […]