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.
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.)
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.
Recently my husband, a Lincoln buff, and I visited Lincoln’s Cottage in Washington, D.C. I had read that former Sen. Mike DeWine was a big supporter of restoring the site, but I didn’t know he had a room there named after him.
I thought that both President Bush (in his speech in Dayton) and Sen. John McCain, in a speech laying out his basic approach to foreign policy, made points that the Democratic presidential candidates have been ignoring and are obliged to address.
Richard Florida, author of “The Rise of the Creative Class,” gave an interview recently in which he said great things about Dayton. Florida’s Toronto-based consulting group is working with the region’s creative-class types to imagine, organize and realize initiatives that excite especially young and talented people, but that also make a community a better place for everybody.
Earlier in the primary season Hillary Clinton aired a much talked about ad — known as “red phone” — which features sleeping children in a quiet house and a narrator gravely asking viewers whom they would want to deal with a national security call at 3 a.m.
The images of the children, however, was from stock advertising footage taken 10 years earlier. One of the children — now a young adult — quickly came out publicly to say she backed Barack Obama. She now appears in this ad:
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Ellen Belcher is the Dayton Daily News opinion pages editor. She writes about state government, education, the environment, higher education and all things Dayton.
Martin Gottlieb is an editorial writer and columnist for the Dayton Daily News opinion pages. He focuses on the political process itself and does such national issues as war, the economy, taxes and Social Security, as well as a hodge-podge of local and state issues.
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I frequently visit, cycle and photograph along the Great Miami River (if fact headed-out to ride today).