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In the last week, I’ve had 4 credible tips on corruption in Dayton. I’m still trying to run down some other old stories that I’ve been working on. There is also my continuing fight with the Department of Justice over their inappropriate use of the GloMar exception in my Freedom of Information Act requests about players in the “Culture of Corruption” investigation.

All that, and my best friend, my dog George, is in his waning days. You might remember George from this video:

George is 12.5, and both my other dogs lived to be 17. I’ve tried to tell him, he has another 5 years, but I don’t think he believes me. Tomorrow, I’m going to look into some holistic treatments and see what options we have.

In the meantime, here’s a few quick hitter questions for you to contemplate.

Mike Foley has a hearing tomorrow, on a “Franks Motion” – claiming that the search warrants issued in his case were invalid. It’s all been sealed up so far, so what’s actually going to be discussed in open court may not be much.

In more Mike Foley news, he’s hired outgoing County Commissioner Debbie Lieberman to work as the Director of Community Development at the Employment Opportunity Center at Westown which he’s funding. Foley may be the only public official that’s hired as many members of the opposing party as his own into patronage jobs. His first was John McManus, who then switched parties. Then there’s Steve Harsman and Cathie Merkle.

And, I just saw that the Dayton City Commission just decided to steal $5.8M from the poor taxpayers of Dayton to donate to the “OnMain” project which belongs to Premier Health and the University of Dayton- neither pay property taxes. Maybe if the Demolition Democrats on the commission would spend money on keeping the pools and rec centers open- kids wouldn’t be fighting in the libraries? Just maybe?

And lastly, the City just installed 2 Blink EV charging stations at the Lohrey Center, but didn’t send a memo out to their employees about how these work. The employees parked in the charging spots.