I’m going to leave out names, because they really don’t matter. This is an issue of culture in City Hall, and it’s one that needed to be shown the door long ago. Talking to another local small businessman, I heard yet another story of a small…
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Inspector Gotcha at work in Vandalia
Last night we heard both Presidential candidates talk about being pro-small business. What we needed to hear was that if either was elected, “Inspector Gotcha” would be put on America’s Most Wanted List and hunted like Bin Laden. Thanks to Vandalia,…
Dayton still makes business difficult
With massive vacancies in commercial space in Dayton (a banker from out of town told me that his people thought downtown was a ghost town when looking at site selection)- the city of Dayton still does its best to make business all but impossible. Today’s Dayton…
Compare Over the Rhine in Cincinnati to Oregon District in Dayton. Any questions?
If you need proof that Dayton needs a change, go down to the Oregon District on Fifth St. The business district. Notice it’s only one street, and about 3 blocks long. Even after Dr. Ervin put his own money up to push the use of more of the buildings, it…
What it takes to open a small dive in Dayton
Before posting this- I checked in with Kim at Olive, and with Urban Dive- the restaurant-to-be at the corner of Wayne and E. Third Street in the old Wympee building. This building has been a restaurant since 1936- and, only because it was closed, was the city able to…
UpDayton Summit 2013- Local hopes and odd prophets
Note: This post is long. It’s a Sunday morning, New York Times Magazine type piece, that tries to bring some of Dayton’s recent development history into perspective compared to what Mayor John Fetterman has done in Braddock, Pa., star of international…
Dayton Business Journal likes my comments
In a kind of bogus way, the Dayton Business Journal has taken its “readers comments” and used them anonymously, even though Disqus has the full name. Last two weeks- they’ve featured my comments- without giving credit: Dayton faces $5M in cuts for…
938 people required 2 mailings
Inspector Gotcha was involved in the board of election mailing. Despite the fact that it was a Dem primary- they had to mail every household with the notification, in case people wanted to switch parties. Of course, graphic design is NOT the BOE’s specialty. So-…
Quoted in DBJ about Dayton Diode- our hackerspace
Page 3 of Dayton Business Journal, January 28, 2011, published on the 25th anniversary of me buying 113 Bonner Street for $14,500- I’m quoted about economic development; David Esrati, a local political blogger and chief creative officer of Dayton-based…
Riordan’s listening tour comes to South Park
We had the city manager and the Mayor come to South Park tonight as part of their budget presentation/listening tour. On my way in Dean Lovelace called to me from a car- and asked where the meeting was- I pointed him to our parking lot and helped him walk in. Tim…
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