Reforms won’t work unless city manager, police chief listen to people IDEAS: Reforms won't work unless city manager, police chief listen to people Note from Community Impact Editor Amelia Robinson: This guest column by Jared Grady appeared on the Dayton Daily News'…www.daytondailynews.com Mere months before the Great Flood of 1913, Dayton replaced the mayor-council form of government with the city-manager form. Dayton City Commission’s most important role is choosing a city manager and holding her accountable. …

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a master orator, the greatest speaker of his time and of all time. His way with words pierced the American psyche and pulled at the world’s collective heart strings. But, like most things, his gift was a double-edged sword. He was a self-proclaimed pacifist…

Donald Trump’s America is intolerable and Joe Biden’s will be as such, but America does not belong to either of these men. Trump certainly embodies all of our worst, but by no means does Biden embody only our best. Presently, there is not enough good in this country to overcome…

After the Civil War, in an era known as Reconstruction, free black Americans made tremendous strides in a relatively short period of time. However, white southerners still resented losing the war and held onto their perverted value system regarding African-Americans. Thus, white southerners instituted a set of law, policies, and…