The Dayton Sportsplex

Is Dayton ready for a “Chief Happiness Officer”?

One of our problems is that Daytonians don’t seem to have a whole lot of respect for our fair city. We’re hemorrhaging population, leadership seems to be asleep at the wheel, and we can’t seem to get our geek on… So a few ideas to make you think- maybe Five Rivers Outdoors can try to Read More

Olympic Gold and the Dayton Sportsplex

July 20, 2007- roll the highlight reel. I spent the day with Nancy Hogshead-Makar- for me, it was like winning the lottery on life. And, I’m going to share my bounty. (I’ll post a pic when I get a chance to) For those of you who may not know the name, this is from her Read More

Residency- the wrong fight.

Yesterday I ran into two firefighters I know. Both, independently confirmed that it isn’t a secret that several firefighters have moved out of the city and haven’t been fired. Is Victor Pate being discriminated against because he went public? Do we have a don’t ask, don’t tell policy in effect? Should the City of Dayton Read More

Dayton as a sport tourism mecca?

There was nothing in the Dayton Daily News today- amazing, since all three county commissioners were in attendance, the county director of economic development, the head of the Montgomery County Convention and Visitors Bureau- the list goes on. (I know, I was there doing something positive- so they would never breathe a word!). So- here Read More

Here comes the Dayton Sports Czar – and Sportsplex too?

I was lucky enough to have County Commissioner Dan Foley buy me (and about 29 other people) lunch today- to discuss what we can do to build Dayton into a Sport Tourism Destination. Bob Steinbach from MVRPC was the facilitator (I am starting to think he’s the only one in town doing this- he’s at Read More

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