Centerville

Centerville leadership can wipe the warm and cheerful off their faces

Yesterday in the Sixth Circuit court of appeals the City of Centerville got the smackdown on their illegal firing of Centerville Police Sgt James Myers. I’ve written about this before- starting in June of 2020. The courts move exceedingly slowly, which is great for lawyers who bill hourly- and bad for clients who pay and Read More

Those damn citizen journalists in Centerville

The Dayton Daily news can barely figure out how to deliver an accessible online paper to my iPad- and even when they do, they don’t know a story when they see one. Of course, when they let City PR Folks write the stories for them, and still claim to be a newspaper, we have a Read More

Centerville citizens starting an insurrection

(Full disclosure- as I’ve been following this story for weeks, and wanting to write about it, I’ve not had the time it deserves. I’ve not been able to do my own public records requests and have had to trust many others who’ve been doing the digging. It’s not to my normal level of investigation. I’ve Read More

Complex election rules, rule out the will of the people

The city wants it on the ballot, the people want it on the ballot, but- oh, wait, everything you did was in vain, because you missed the deadline. Really? People went and jumped through the hoops of getting the proper petition language, collecting signatures, turning everything in- but, now have to wait a year? This Read More

I want to make money- taxpayers should help pay: Sprawl at the Dille estate

Because a developer wants to build something, does that automatically mean you should pay for it with your tax dollars? George Oberer Jr. has a dream- but he wants the taxpayers to pay for a large part of it: Wilmington Pike could expand to up to 10 lanes and the bridge at Interstate 675 above Read More

Older Posts