by Mike Bock | Oct 25, 2021 | Local/Metro
In this election, two candidates will be elected to serve on the Kettering City Council. I am voting for Jyl Hall and I am voting for Jacque Fisher — the incumbent first elected in 2017 There are three candidates for the two “at-large” positions. I sent...
by Mike Bock | May 7, 2021 | Local/Metro
Wow. This bush get better every year. I bought it about twenty years ago from Siebenthaler’s. It produces such spectacular blooms. It is a Chinese Snowball Viburnum. Siebenthaler no longer carries them for sale. Last year a friend who wanted to find this variety...
by Mike Bock | Dec 18, 2020 | Local/Metro
I always check out Esrati’s website. In his newest post — Why our political candidates generally suck — David advocates that there be a change in the Dayton Charter so that Dayton City Commissioners are elected through rank choice voting. Esrati writes: “We are...
by Mike Bock | Dec 17, 2020 | Local/Metro
Ohio Senate District 06 had a great candidate in Democrat Mark Fogel — a 40 year old graduate of Air Force Academy who served as a jet pilot for the Air Force — and it looked like Fogel had a great chance of flipping this Republican district. Fogel was very qualified,...
by Mike Bock | Oct 30, 2020 | Local/Metro
Wow, this might be a record. My dahlia plants are still alive and still producing new flowers here at the end of October. I’m seeing it as a positive sign of something positive. I was telling a friend on the phone that it’s wonderful and unusual that my...
