November 2011

Journalism 101 for the Dayton Daily News

Dear Boss of Lynn Hulsey, When re-writing a story that broke two days ago, standard practice is to attribute your source. If you don’t know this, try reading about it on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism_sourcing The Montgomery County Board of Elections on Tuesday fired a part-time election worker for writing on a voter’s application for an absentee Read More

WPAFB is too big to fail. But, our politicians fail us already

We’ve already seen what happens when institutions that are “too big to fail” do exactly that- fail. Yet, the much vaulted economic tripod of Dayton- Feds, Meds and Eds (none of which pay taxes directly) keeps depending on the war machine centered at WPAFB to continue to support our failed economic policies in Ohio. The Read More

Board of Elections fires temp worker

Montgomery County Board of Elections temporary part-time worker Robin Dodge (R) was fired yesterday for marking on an absentee ballot application that was being processed. She had worked as a poll worker previously and was hired by Deputy Director Betty Smith. As is policy at the Montgomery County Board of Elections, a Democrat was present Read More

David Esrati and Ken Wade

Another of the “Crazy Ones” who think they can change the world: Ken Aden Wade

Back in December of 2009 I wrote about a young US Army paratrooper who was going to transform our fair city of Dayton: We listened to political neophyte (because he doesn’t want to be a politician) give an hour and 15 minute ramble on how the “real people” will bring “real results” to changing Dayton. Read More

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