mismanagement in the military health care system, a series very relevant to its readership because of the presence of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in neighboring Greene County. The paper is the home of cartoonist Mike Peters, who draws the Mother Goose and Grimm strip and won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1981, and columnist Dale Huffman, who had written a daily metro column every day for more than eight years before beginning a hiatus on January 30, 2008, after he was diagnosed with kidney cancer. The following people at some point worked at or wrote for the Dayton Daily News: Erma Bombeck (at The Journal-Herald) Millie Bingham Si Burick Ritter Collett (at The Journal-Herald) Charlotte Reeve Conover James M. Cox Bob Englehart (at The Journal-Herald) Clem Hamilton Marj Heyduck (at The Journal-Herald) Dale Huffman Hal McCoy Jeff Nesmith Mike Peters Tom Archdeacon John Scalzi Myron Scott Jon Talton Jim Zofkie Charley Stough III Dann Stupp Clara Weisenborn (at The Journal-Herald) Roz Young (also at The Journal-Herald) In 1988, Daily News publisher Dennis Shere was fired by Cox Newspapers because he rejected a health lecture advertisement by homosexual groups. Shere cited his "Christian perspective" in declining to print the ad. The Southern Baptist Convention subsequently passed a resolution calling on "all media to refuse advertising that promotes homosexuality or any other lifestyle that is destructive to the family". The resolution said Shere was fired for his "commitment to defend traditional moral and family values". The company responded that it was defending freedom of expression for all people, saying "We cannot compromise on the constitutional issue of equal access to the press". References Bibliography Dayton Ink. Dayton, Ohio: The Dayton Daily News, 1998. External links Official site Official mobile site Cox Newspapers Newspapers published in Dayton, Ohio 1898 establishments in Ohio