“Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.” Mark Twain Politicians used to understand this. Promises of a better tomorrow, with jobs, a standard of living higher than it is today- were standard campaign promises. Now, we have “hope” and “change” with no promise whatsoever. If we likened life to a game Read More
The “Super Committee” has now failed and the stock market dropped. We’re in a tizzy over imaginary actions that never happened, caused by something that wasn’t. The Dayton Daily News proclaims housing is rebounding in Dayton today. Really? How do we come up with these superlatives without any real justification? I was having a short Read More
Sandy Gudorf is an overpaid tool of corporate America. As the president of the Downtown Dayton Partnership she is paid more than $100K a year to tax property owners and then give tax breaks to new businesses. She also hires cheap contract labor to do the job of cleaning downtown sidewalks as a way to Read More
Back in December of 2009 I wrote about a young US Army paratrooper who was going to transform our fair city of Dayton: We listened to political neophyte (because he doesn’t want to be a politician) give an hour and 15 minute ramble on how the “real people” will bring “real results” to changing Dayton. Read More
If you need further illustration of what is fueling the #occupy movement, compare and contrast two local court cases. The first is a white-collar swindler, Michael Peppel, who robbed 271 investors of huge sums of money, caused at least 1,300 people to lose their jobs, made his suppliers eat his debts, and then sat in Read More
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