The "How I Got Over" exhibit's three core themes--spirituality, protest and celebration--prominently stand outside the Nati...

[ NOTE : this is a long-delayed follow-up for the last Obama event I covered back in October 2012 and a "capstone" for my politica...

A sign for Red Tails, Silver Wings, a visiting display of Tuskegee Airmen-inspired paintings by artist Chris Hopkins, sits outside the Ha...

Probably the only vantage point that wasn't shown on a wide variety of viewing options--from the floor of the US House of Representat...

A Dayton Regional Transit Authority bus stops along Pentagon Boulevard in Beavercreek, Ohio. Monday was the 29th observance of Martin L...

Ed FitzGerald and Sharen Neuhardt (center left to right, respectively),  Democratic candidates for governor and lieutenant governor, wave...

[ NOTE : this is the third--and sadly last--of an originally anticipated five-part series critiquing morning news offerings from US broadcas...

[ NOTE : football and car problems kept me away from the keyboard this past weekend...0 for 2 is not a good start.] A small milita...

[ NOTE: "Soap Box" is my initial attempt at creating a weekly opinion-based column. I will focus primarily on politics, national ...

Greetings to all of my readers, followers, former classmates and friends on this first day of 2014, or as I am branding it "My Year ...

John Lithgow's 2012 Broadway portrayal of Joseph Alsop, one of America's most influential newspaper columnists In probably my ...

Aaron Shilker's posthumously commissioned official White House portrait of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Up until the tragic events of 9...

A screen capture of a .pdf version of the Pentagon's final published Early Bird daily press compilation. As we have seen in recent ...

Orson Welles and his Mercury Theater on the Air show scared the bejeezus out of many Americans 75 years ago last week There aren't ...

[ NOTE: this is another story that has taken way too long to post here--it was originally from February!]  The Dayton Daily News drag...