Top-notch coach Ohio State alumna Amy Tucker retires from coaching Stanford basketball By Marc Katz My first thought was that we need more people like Amy Tucker, who was such an outstanding basketball player at Springboro High School and Ohio State, and coach at OSU and Stanford. She has served as a beacon for women […]
Antagonizing the crazy man US should shy away from Kim Jong-Un, nuclear weapons By Mark Luedtke According to U.S. rulers, North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un is crazy. He also has primitive nuclear weapons. Any reasonable person would advise against antagonizing the crazy dictator with nuclear weapons, but U.S. rulers aren’t reasonable. They demand obedience, […]
Too weird for Austin? Texas bill protects religious liberties, probably not same-sex couples By Sarah Sidlow “This bill is not a license to discriminate. Rather, it is a license to participate.” That was Texas Senator Charles Perry—not at karaoke. Actually, Perry was at a hearing on SB 892 before the Senate Health and Human Services […]
Michael Jordan, Elvis, Bogie Busters, oh my Looking back at UD Arena before its facelift By Jim Bucher It’s official! The University of Dayton Arena will receive a $72 million upgrade. Between 2017-19 they’ll add major seating upgrades, new concourses, entrances, lighting, scoreboards, the whole shebang. The arena is close to 50 years old (and […]
Lights, camera, Dayton! Hollywood sets up on Second Street By Jim Bucher Last week, for a couple of days, you may have heard or seen that Hollywood set up shop in downtown Dayton. A few scenes for “The Old Man and a Gun,” with Tinsel Town heavyweights Casey Affleck, Robert Redford, Danny Glover, and Sissy […]
Finding a way Dragon’s pitcher Aaron Fossas makes a comeback By Marc Katz Over the last two years, everything has gone wrong for Aaron Fossas in baseball. Now, everything is going right. It’s going to be a race to see where the story ends, and we should know that in about another two years. This […]
Dead last Government health care makes Americans sicker than ever By Mark Luedtke We’ve all heard the propaganda: Americans live longer than ever. Which is only a half-truth. The Atlantic tells a more complete story in an article about chronic illness, titled “Living Sick and Dying Young in Rich America.” “Despite the fact that America […]
Knowledge is power Ohio’s violent criminal registry: could it hurt? By Sarah Sidlow Sierah Joughin, 20, of Fulton County was riding her bicycle when she was abducted and killed last year. Joughin wasn’t her killer’s first victim. In fact, James D. Worley, 57, had been charged for abducting another girl, this one in Lucas County, […]
What goes up… The region’s economic bubble will bust By Mark Luedtke Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley is riding high on the bubble, but she will go down in history for presiding over the region’s biggest bust. Unable or unwilling to distinguish between real economic growth and wealth destruction via her crony socialism, Whaley declares […]
Short relationships, long fights A woman and her ex-boyfriend decided they needed to meet and discuss their breakup. The woman […]
40 oz. fight A woman was hanging out with friends when they all decided to buy some beer. She knew […]
Cupcake capers A man walked into a store and headed to the cupcake section. The owner suspected there would be […]
Broken brandy bottle A family left for church in the morning. When they returned, they noticed their motion-sensor alarm system […]
Grow at your own risk By Michael Brice Keller The Constitution, I am told, is written on hemp, and I […]
Commentary Forum: 5/2
Scared to death Ohio’s battle with lethal injection By Sarah Sidlow There’s nothing like a good deadline to increase productivity. That’s what the state of Arkansas decided when it realized its supply of one of the drugs used in its lethal injection cocktail, midazolam, expires at the end of April. Cue death row executions in […]