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Note: This post is long. It’s a Sunday morning, New York Times Magazine type piece, that tries to bring some of Dayton’s recent development history into perspective compared to what Mayor John Fetterman has done in Braddock, Pa., star of international attention. Please set aside 10 minutes to digest it. Dayton, Ohio, is the capital [...]
Sometimes life has a strange way of colliding. I’ve wanted to see a Zoot Theatre Company production for a long time. A local troupe, run by a looming Englishman with a poetic kindness in his voice, they use puppets to tell the story, with the actors swathed in black from head to toe- including covering [...]
Thinking about alternatives, coming up with creative solutions, keeping going despite past failures is what moves man forward. When I first ran 20 years ago, I was so enamored with a quote from George Bernard Shaw from “Man and Superman” that I put it on all of my campaign literature. I’d not read it in [...]
If we wanted to really learn about what a candidate’s plans are, we wouldn’t expect them to answer in 2 minutes or less. I understand people have a short attention span, but, when it comes to something important, 2 minutes isn’t enough. When I learned that the McCook Field neighborhood association was going to give [...]
Because running for a part-time political office shouldn’t cost more than the job pays, the Mayor, Gary Leitzell challenged all the candidates to limit their campaigns to $10K in cash donations and $10k in in-kind donations. Commissioner Nan Whaley and Retired Judge A.J. Wagner both declined and have taken donations as big as $5,000 (what [...]
I can read and write at a college level. I could do it in the eleventh grade, because of one teacher, David DiCarlo, at Cleveland Heights High School. He taught Political Science and Comparative Government like a college course. I don’t remember a text book- but I do remember high intensity lectures, every day, with [...]
When my friend Shannon Z. tagged me with a 26-minute speech on Facebook I thought, oh, no, not another right-wing rant. This was at the National Prayer Breakfast, Feb. 7, 2013 (yesterday). The President, the first lady and Vice President were all on the dais. If they had the time to listen, why shouldn’t I. [...]
Saturday afternoon, a remarkable crowd gathered at College Hill Community Church to celebrate the life of a man who made a difference. College Hill isn’t a very big church, but it’s one where the members take their vows on Sunday in church and take action on them every waking minute of the rest of the [...]
