October 2008

Kevin Riley: DDN Editor, a little late to the party on Downtown Dayton

I’m glad Kevin Riley finally started reading esrati.com, he’s just starting to get a grasp on what I’ve been advocating for years (the redefining downtown was in my campaign lit the first time I ran – back in the late 80’s) These three issues are part of the solution, but, maybe the disbanding of the Read More

Laptops for students: Cleveland Heights-University Heights gets it right

I grew up in Cleveland Heights. It was a progressive integrated first ring suburb of Cleveland, home to many college professors, medical professionals and members of the Cleveland Orchestra. When I graduated in 1980 my class was 850 or so, and about 25% of the class was African American. It was a top-performing district, with Read More

McCain defends Obama. What next? Ditch Palin?

Yesterday, John McCain had to start defending the character of Barack Obama after he had been inciting fear and suggesting that Barack Obama is connected to terrorism. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0ho6qEhMbs[/youtube] Now, more than ever, we need to be talking about issues and coming together as Americans. Even John McCain is seeing how the policy of divisiveness isn’t Read More

America: a third world country.

The day has arrived for us to take a serious look at our Nation, and where it has been headed. Although we still pretend to be a Country where “all men are created equal” it now costs a million to be “elected” to Congress and a few billion to buy the presidency. I’ve asked the Read More

While the government is talking limits on credit-default swaps, maybe we’d do best to ban “counter-investing”?

Investing and the market should be about good faith in a company- after all, isn’t that what all the debt rating agencies are supposed to help us with in making decisions? Just yesterday, Standard & Poors warned it may downgrade GM’s credit rating- which helped kill off 31% of the stocks value. That’s a serious Read More

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