July 2007

From a consultant: DPS doesn’t need no stinkin outside consultant

Today, the Dayton Daily put their stamp of approval on the Dayton Public Schools’ funeral. We must not dare risk the precious human services levy for the whole county over the bastard children of the Dayton Public Schools. No, we must put those kids on the back burner, while some lame consultant does a “performance 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

A local search that worked!

I was planning on taking a picture of the new Five Rivers MetroParks billboards that are popping up all over town- to say- yeah! someone in Dayton finally understands the difference between an ad- and a grocery list posing as an ad. Then I saw in today’s DDN Neighbors section that Beth Miller, formerly of Read More

Mass exodus from Oakwood! And other DDN failures

I too was dumbfounded how Dayton losing “droves of people” was a front page headline in the Dayton Daily News, but Dayton planning director and urban visionary John Gower puts it all in perspective in his OpEd column today. John Gower: Dayton isn’t losing ‘droves’ of people I was dumbfounded to see the exaggerated headline, Read More

Apparently, human services come before Dayton Public Schools

In yet another development of the devolution of Dayton Public Schools- the school board has allowed themselves to be bullied off the ballot in November by the Human Services levy- thinking they can’t pass at the same time. Bad news- no 2009 Metroparks will be back on the ballot- will DPS sit on the sidelines Read More

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