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What’s Best Case for Dayton?

By Martin Gottlieb | Thursday, July 3, 2008, 02:43 PM

In his Sunday column, Dayton Daily News editor Kevin Riley asks readers for suggestions for selling people on coming to Dayton. The specific context is the effort of the Dayton Development Coalition and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to land new civilians to take advantage of the assignment of new military tasks to the base as a result of the base realignment project.

This is a good place to post ideas. What would you tell people is desirable about Dayton?

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Terrorists no threat to Obama

By Martin Gottlieb | Tuesday, July 1, 2008, 04:47 PM

On the Dayton Daily News opinion pages of Wednesday, July 1 (available at http://www.daytondailynews.com/o/content/oh/story/opinions/editorial/2008/07 /01/ddn070208dyer.html), Gwynne Dyer proclaims that it is perfectly obvious that a terrorist attack during the presidential campaign would help John McCain.

He is wrong. A terrorist attack would just be more bad news for the country. Bad news hurts the incumbent party. It would hurt McCain.

The Republican Party cites as one of its main accomplishments since 9/11 the very fact that there have been no terrorists attacks in this country since. That’s one of the very few good things they can point to about their watch. If it disappears, they’ve got a problem, and the Democrats have an opportunity.

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Check out Checker Finn’s rant

By Ellen Belcher | Sunday, June 29, 2008, 12:12 PM

Former Daytonian Chester “Checker” Finn, Jr. wrote a rant for the Wall Street Journal that suggests he doesn’t get back to Ohio much. Sure, the state has a lot of problems. But he struggles to find anything positive going on.

Finn’s problem is that he spends too much time thinking only about Dayton’s public schools, which are in a world of hurt and trouble. But the state is bigger than its urban schools.

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What’s great in Dayton?

By Ellen Belcher | Tuesday, May 27, 2008, 10:37 AM

Check out this YouTube video about Dayton, brought to you by Real Living, a real estate company.

It’s short, it’s breezy and it captures the eclectic side of Dayton.

Now about that business of playing golf year-round: That’s a little over the top, doncha think?

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Is the region ever going to love its river?

By Ellen Belcher | Wednesday, April 23, 2008, 04:04 PM

Talk about perfect timing.

On Monday, April 28, the University of Dayton is sponsoring a River Summit at College Park Center.

On April 22, The New York Times did a big take-out on how Oklahoma City has turned the Oklahoma River — once a “ditch” that had to be mowed — into a destination.

The peg for the story was partly that canoeists and kayakers were in town trying to qualify for the U.S. Olympic team.

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Antioch still making the NYT

By Ellen Belcher | Wednesday, April 23, 2008, 03:41 PM

The April 20th New York Times dissected Antioch College’s demise.

It’s a succinct, interesting history, but if you’ve followed the controversy, you won’t learn much that you didn’t already know. (It was a bit surprising to find out that the college cafeteria serves Brussels sprouts. Only at Antioch.)

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What would you ask Dayton’s ‘Creative Class’ types?

By Ellen Belcher | Friday, April 4, 2008, 04:56 PM

I gotta say, I really love this “Creative Class” initiative Dayton has going (or, more accurately, that Dayton’s area colleges have going) with Richard Florida, the guru of that movement.

Here’s a column that I wrote and was published April 6.

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