by Mike Bock | Oct 30, 2021 | Local/Metro
What a nice surprise this afternoon to discover that Jyl Hall — candidate seeking election to Kettering’s City Council — was campaigning on my street. Jyl was accompanied by her father, Tony Hall — our representative to the U.S. Congress from1979 to 2002 and...
by Mike Bock | Oct 26, 2021 | Local/Metro
Joseph Patak is seeking election to the Kettering City Council and he has signs all over town declaring that he is CONSERVATIVE. His Facebook record reveals that he is not an Eisenhower or Reagan conservative, however, but, in fact, identifies with people and ideas...
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,...