Dayton’s pool policy is making waves for all the wrong reasons. Firefighters monopolize public lap lanes for training …
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“Is Dayton’s Government Efficiency Blocked by Obsolete Newspaper Requirements?”
Dayton’s government faces inefficie…
How DPS could have had your kids in school yesterday
Day three of no school, and the blame game is in full swing. Old Man Winter dropped a foot of snow, the City of Dayton�…
Reflections and Resolutions: A New Year for Dayton and Esrati.com
Reflections on 18 years of blogging about Dayton’s most pressing issues, the challenges of summarizing a vast body of …
Thanksgiving Failures
In this heartfelt and unflinching Thanksgiving reflection, David Esrati challenges the systemic failures of America’s …
Time for a Dayton Department of Efficiency
“Reimagining Dayton: A Call for Efficiency and Accountability”
Dayton, Ohio faces mounting challenges from government in…
R.I.P. Bike share in Dayton. For all the wrong reasons.
I'm sure someone will call me a liar or claim it to be their idea, but bringing B-Cycle (the brand of bikes Dayton...
Dayton killed a 12 year old
Dayton, the region, not the city. We're all to blame for this travesty. Isabellas Amor-Carlos is dead. Her crime?...
Groundhog day for Kettering Ice Arena
It was about 10 years ago that I wrote an editorial that made it into the Dayton Daily news about why Kettering...
The Hotel rush in Downtown Dayton
I sat on the lawn of the Levitt Pavilion last week listening to a free concert- in the shadow of what was once the...
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