October 2009
Dayton Baptist Ministers’ Conference candidates forum: Podcast
We have some amazing voices in this community- and they opened their meeting in song. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the recorder going for the opening. There were no strict time limits. When I arrived on time, only Joe Lacey of the Dayton school Board and Charlie Shoemaker, executive director of Metroparks were there. We were Read More
Is Dayton broke? Or not?
The point of belt tightening seems to be lost on the former City Manager and the City Commission. When you are facing a $20 million hole, you don’t give pay raises- of any sort, pre-negotiated or not. It’s called living within your means- it’s called doing the right thing, it’s called avoiding layoffs later. The Read More
Why is the Downtown Dayton Partnership making contributions?
I understand that the Library and the Metroparks levies (issue 40 and 4 respectively) are essential to our community and give them 110% support. However, I’m wondering how the Downtown Dayton Partnership, which is itself tax supported (through a Special Improvement District (SID) Tax) can be giving tax dollars to another tax-collecting authority. Looking over Read More
The fall of Qbase?
Willard Pardue, CEO of Qbase, has been building a house of cards much like Bernie Madoff, the only problem was his deck was filled with jokers. He chose to scam local politicians and development agencies into handing him cash for the promise of “high tech” jobs. The jobs never materialized, and he left a wake Read More
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