After a writing a blog for long enough, some things just start to write themselves for you. This post is based on comments on the site and a discussion I had with a senior city staff person- and both come back to a recurring theme of my trials and tribulations with…
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Burnt: how we trashed what made sense
I should have Greg writing this post, but, I’ll spare you the three-week wait for the stilted writing :-) Montgomery County used to burn our trash at two incinerators. Faced with option of investing more in scrubbers and clean-burn technology, we snuffed out the…
Note to Mark Owens: time to take down your immature smear site
Montgomery County Democratic Party Chairman Mark Owens, will of course blame Rhine McLin for failing to beat Gary Leitzell with at least 10 times the money and a marquee name. Rhine McLin should be wanting her campaign manager’s rear end in a sling. Her campaign…
United Way the Dayton Way
The last thing you do when you want to build trust is start meeting behind closed doors. At least that’s the way true leadership works in this information-driven economy. The Dayton United Way got in trouble by letting an incompetent executive pay himself way…
The secret group trying to do regionalism without telling anyone: One Dayton
please note: this is a long post for esrati.com, but it is the unveiling of a secret group that is already spending your tax dollars with favored political consultants to advance a cause that can’t be spoken of in public… yet. I hope you find it useful and…
The Wire: Dayton Edition
It’s been ten years since I binge watched “The Wire” television series. And like most things in Dayton, we’re about ten years behind the rest of the world as we get our own real world version unfolding in front of us. What made “The…
“the leader for Dayton’s future” features Dayton’s past on his last ditch marketing
I’m sorry, this isn’t going to seem right on election day. People will say “Esrati went negative”- and that’s not the point of this at all. I just want to report the news as I see it, so all know what’s going on. I waited way later…
Who do you want to run Dayton?
Sounds like a pretty simple question, “who do you want to run Dayton?” And most of you think this is a question of who you’ll vote for (or for those of you in the ‘burbs but own property or work in Dayton- who will the residents choose). But,…
Montgomery County Democratic Party eats its own
Full disclosure: my firm does work for Darryl Fairchild and Shenise Turner-Sloss. I’m also a member of both the executive and central committee of the Montgomery County Democratic party (and don’t recall voting to authorize this kind of dirty politics.) I…
Montgomery County Board of Elections places Esrati on May ballot, says no to Jo Love
After much deliberation, a three person BOE voted to place David Esrati on the May 2nd ballot, after he supplied enough notarized affidavit’s to bring into question the validity of the petition language and the un-chartered rules missing from the Dayton Charter….
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