Historic South Park

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 Daily had an article about businesses moving to Springboro– Read More

Free Shakespeare tonight thru Sunday in South Park

South Park is my neighborhood- and for the last three years this neighborhood has shown its community spirit and hipness by presenting the Bard, for free- in the ‘hood. A good number of the actors and support people live in the neighborhood. Consider yourself invited to this year’s production of Romeo and Juliet- updated to Read More

Chief Biehl in the ‘hood

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a bit: The Chief of Police seems to understand what is happening better than the people in planning or in “economic development”- he’s redistricted South Park, the Oregon District and the Fairgrounds neighborhood into the Central Business District. ‘Bout time. Downtown just started being bigger than a Read More

Dayton wins!

For all the bad news and naysayers- this one’s for you. I’ve even done my share of pointing out the flaws in our fair city- but with the goal of moving us forward. Today, I decided to interview a neighbor, the lovely and talented Melissa Aldridge. She graduated from Belmont High School, attended Wright State Read More

Why I love Woodland Cemetery & Arboretum

In my congressional run, I made a video featuring Woodland Cemetery, one of my favorite places in Dayton. That it’s just four blocks away helps too. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjRek_SnylY[/youtube] Besides being the tallest point in Dayton, it’s absolutely breathtaking at the crack of dawn when I like to either run or walk through the final resting places Read More

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