December 2007

Gotta love “Speak Up” in the Dayton Daily News

“Re: Longtime Dayton activist Esrati to run for Congress,” Dec 15, I’m a lifelong Democrat, and David Esrati would be the absolute last person I would vote for in any election. He would be a total embarrassment. Is he just trying to get more publicity for himself?” And, of course, since it’s “Speak Up” it’s Read More

Corporate welfare will kill our economy.

The Business Journal scooped the Dayton Daily News with the news that NCR will be moving its C-Level suite to NYC. Dayton will lose maybe 100 employees- but all will be the 6 and 7 figure paychecks, taking a sizable bite out of Dayton’s income tax revenue. However, the zinger is that the State of Read More

“Riots”- free lawyers- and why does the Sheriff sell more homes than Phil Herman?

It’s coming. One big mess. How do I know that? Because when the Sheriff is the undisputed leader in selling homes, a State Supreme Court Justice is asking lawyers to do pro-bono to help in the backlog of foreclosures, and people are taking to the streets to save public housing complexes, we have the beginnings Read More

In 1913 Dayton got the Sportsplex idea

Regular readers know I have an idea to build a giant sportsplex downtown on the former Parkside homes location. It’s central to the city, highly visible, a great addition to Riverscape and the Ballpark, dovetails perfectly with the new Kroc center just across the river and would be a strong statement about our belief as Read More

Apparently Obama doesn’t get the web

My campaign treasurer is in Iowa, working on the Obama campaign. He sent back a message: “Obama does not want volunteers to blog.” That’s plain wrong. Any one who thinks they can control their brand through such draconian policies is going to find out that you can’t stop what’s being said about you- you need Read More

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