May 2009

Didn’t look like top 10 dying cities last night.

Urban Nights was hopping. People everywhere. Restaurants with waits, bars full, street vendors selling, street musicians playing, people having a good time. Amazingly, some downtown businesses didn’t get it- and were closed. Sterling Studio in the Oregon District, the new optician on E. Third with $10 frames, and a few others had their doors locked. Read More

Is it time for a “combat zone?”

I’m throwing this out for discussion, it’s an idea, nothing more. We’ve been filling prisons with people at a ridiculous rate. When they get out, they are treated like lepers. We spend a good deal of money on police chasing their tails on people who are hell bent on being stupid. The “war on drugs” Read More

Karl Keith, the new face of Montgomery County

Getting elected county auditor is an honor, thinking you have the right to plaster your face anywhere you want- at taxpayer expense is ego. In fact, I question if auditors should be able to put their name on the stickers on scales and gas pumps, without having to pay for it out of campaign funds. Read More

UniGov- a hot topic since 1967?

Thomas Suddes makes a case for UniGov in today’s Dayton Daily News. He’s dead on, except at this point, this amounts to kicking a dead horse: Ohio also doesn’t need its 700 “special district” governments, such as port authorities and fire, park, etc., districts. All that brush just hides which typically unelected folks caused which Read More

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