Almost five years of Pilates at the Y should be a good warm up for my first Ashtanga Yoga class- but, whoa- I…
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Economic Development in Dayton OH
If Education pays?
More thoughts from yesterdays WSU Regional Summit: Considering you can’t teach at WSU without a PhD. I find it…
How to get 80,000 people to come to downtown Dayton?
The City Folk festival, the Fourth of July fireworks- both bring a lot of people downtown, but they don’t make…
The Foundry closed- because “Originals not wanted”
The problem with branding is that it doesn’t mean anything if your actions don’t fit your words. Case in…
Dayton Patented, Originals Wanted blows “Get Midwest” out of the branding game
Penny Ohlman Neiman owed the City of Dayton a winner after their last branding effort gave us the 4/color (when 4…
Reynolds bails on downtown
Sprawl will kill us all. In the final act of a three act play, orchestrated by corporate chieftains and played out by…
John Henry’s gives up food for drink
Can’t say I didn’t see it coming. Even after repeatedly offering to help them with marketing and website…
U-Verse and our small businesses. Sometimes more choice isn’t better.
Yes, we all hate Time Warner, but trust me, you’ll hate AT&T just as much. I got the sales pitch for U-Verse…
Paying the house: when “economic development” goes bad
When you go to gamble, there is always one winner- the house. For your opportunity to wager your bets and win or…
The “One Stop Shop” for Dayton business permits: Emphasis on “STOP”
While Dayton is hemorrhaging jobs and residents, with a glut of vacant business space on the market, you would think…

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