October 2010

Time to reconsider baseball fields at schools?

The brand new school sits where you’d never see it if you didn’t know it was there. It’s been open over a year now, yet, the “field of dreams” is just getting finished. The lot is a funky size to begin with, with fences running every which way but square, and here as you enter Read More

The return of indoor football to Dayton

The Miami Valley Silverbacks will be back this year- playing at Hara Arena. Owner Jeff Kolaczkowski has hired Ryan Evans as GM. They’ll be holding tryouts on Saturday, Oct. 23, at Englewood Indoor Soccer. The team is working on their website- www.silverbacksfootball.com and more details will begin to appear over the next few weeks. Coaching Read More

Nazis, Muslims, miniature painters and morticians

P.T. Barnum couldn’t claim “the greatest show on earth” anymore- nope, the three-ring circus doesn’t hold a candle to the American political campaign season- where almost anything goes. And while we can easily point our fingers at candidates for their shenanigans; not so easily at shadow campaigns financed by “secret sponsors” we’ve never heard and Read More

But you promised…

Back on Feb. 14, 2008, the Dayton City Commission and the County ED/GE committee gave away $125K to an ad agency that claimed 19 employees at the time and an additional 15 during the next three years. I said then there were problems- in that a video edit suite doesn’t cost $125K- and the jobs Read More

Where to draw the line on free speech.

I love the First Amendment, in fact, I was willing to stake my personal freedom and all I owned to defend my rights to protest. I’ve been jailed, persecuted, ridiculed and have continued to suffer the consequences of small minded people who never quite get what went on when I donned the mask and became Read More

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