May 2010

The 50cc answer to dependence on foreign oil

And then frustration set in. Local business man Jason Liff started Motoscooto on Wayne Avenue at the height of gas prices- and since then, prices have been dropping steadily- as unemployment has gone up. His selection of quality scooters has improved- adding the Genuine Scooter brand and CFMoto to a line up of LinHai and Read More

But does city hall listen? Employee cost saving suggestions ignored?

In today’s DDN the “Professional” manager is asking for crowd sourced solutions to the budget problem: City revenues are down across the board through April as income tax collections continue to slide $1.5 million below already conservative projections, according to information the finance staff gave city commissioners Wednesday, May 26. “We are at the same Read More

It is who you know. DDC hires Howard?

While it’s almost impossible to figure out why the Dayton Development Coalition gets to hand over no-bid contracts to  Congressman Turner’s wife, and pays its President almost more than the City Manager of Dayton and the County Administrator COMBINED, it’s even more interesting to think about what could be done with the money instead? Regional Read More

An open invitation to Joe Roberts

Joe Roberts was Dr. Mark MacNealy’s campaign manager. Sources have told me that he is running in the special election primary for the Democratic nomination for Congress in OH-3. I can find nothing about him online. [correction 5pm: he now has a facebook page and also gives this URL http://www.robertsforohio.com/] I am offering to post Read More

Laws broken that will never be prosecuted: The Monarchy of Montgomery County

It’s bad enough that we have 10% more government overhead than the rest of the country- with plenty of duplication of services, but now we also have a rampant case of illegal nepotism being exposed in the region. Of course this is nothing new, it’s been going on forever. This “exposée” in the Dayton Daily Read More

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