Next weekend- Oct 12-13, 07, The Lefty Mcfadden College Hockey Invitational comes back to the Nutter Center. College hockey at it’s best- with the 06 champion Wisconsin Badgers coming to town and bringing their fans. With the Dayton Bombers going to the Kelley Cup Finals last season, and this line up for the Lefty- it’s Read More
Someone in City Hall must have flunked basic math. Spending money to move jobs from one office tower to a new office building doesn’t equal more revenue. In fact, all it does is piss off the property owners of the tower- who have been dutifully paying the Downtown Dayton Partnership a tax premium to help Read More
Instead of being a crown jewel of Dayton- for all to see, and all to use, in a central, highly visible location, building on the strengths of RiverScape, Kettering Fields, Island Park and the coming Kroc Center- SportsPlex is going to be stuffed away in Huber Heights. It won’t be the central place for kids Read More
Sports tourism on deck for Montgomery County: A much shorter link to the resolution The County Commission passed resolution 07-1311, establishing a Youth and Amateur Sports Competition Task Force, chaired by Tony Lupia, who is a local sports tournament director. The goal is a 20% increase in youth sports business/tournaments by 2010. Too bad the Read More
Reality: the big levy got whupped, programs were cut, more students will leave because of program cuts, funding drops as students leave, and now- because the skip to “Continuous improvement” was because of an incentive portion of the scoring system, not an actual huge gain, you’re one year away from State intervention- with no real Read More
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