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Change may come incrementally to Dayton OJ, only with concensus- but that type of change won’t solve the problems we face. Bold ideas are what it will take- or at least open discussion of options. These are some ideas that can move Dayton forward.
Photo Credit: Bruno Furnari via Compfight Imagine what would happen if NYC enacted rules requiring one parking space per every 1000 square feet of living space? NYC wouldn’t be NYC. That’s because the whole value of a dense urban downtown is that by cramming people together, you create critical concentrated buying power that supports retail. [...]
The headline is me being sarcastic. I’ve pushed the idea of a central massive sports/rec plex on the former public housing site between 1-75, the river, Helena and Keowee for years. I suggested instead of 6 new Dayton rec centers- we just build one amazing centralized one- instead, we ended with 2 semi-lame ones. The [...]
Today I saw a police car on U.S. 35 running a speed trap. This is called a “revenue enhancement strategy” by some police officers, bringing dollars into the government’s pockets from fines. The problem is, if you challenge the ticket and go to court, paying the police officer to come in to court, plus the [...]
One of the things I was taking pictures of in Paris were large-scale wall murals, because for a long time, I’ve been planning to push for large-scale art on Dayton buildings. However, I was thinking ad space as well as mural space. Apparently, we’ve had a turnaround on this in City Hall- but more on [...]
We’ve made the news, the New York Times. Instead of talking about why Dayton is a great place to locate your business, with a highly trained workforce, low cost of living, high quality of life- we get a mid-level manager talking about our long-term unemployed: Lucious Plant, work force development administrator in Montgomery County, Ohio, [...]
It’s really too bad the citizens of Dayton are asleep at the wheel, allowing the City Commission with their limited intellectual capacity, to sell off our assets, while at the same time, engaged in an utterly pointless property acquisition strategy. Yep- we’re selling off the public’s investment in parks and recreation centers for the youth [...]
With all the horsepower under the Cox Media Center- it’s surprising they haven’t attempted more totally local programming. In the day of media overload, unique, local content is the only competitive advantage they can “own” and really sell. It’s happening in Cincinnati: Coming to WXIX-TV (Channel19) this fall is a reality series shot on the [...]
In South Park we’ve had some random problems with delinquents. After my three car break-ins, I started to investigate a video surveillance system. Being a video pro, I realize that garbage in makes garbage out. When I saw the prices for cameras/systems with at least HDTV resolution, infrared night vision I started to have second [...]