Only Metroparks would close down an ice rink full of people at 8 p.m. over Winter break- and leave the ice empty. I guess they want us to go home- and watch TV- or go drink at bars. The whole point of having a covered outdoor ice rink- is to let people skate. If they Read More
For all the game playing on Wall Street- and in Congress, there really hasn’t been any serious discussion on how to get U.S. companies to stop hoarding cash and doing M&A. And the talk about tariffs on trading partners gets squashed the moment that you realize it will raise prices on everything in the U.S.- Read More
Announced today: Kettering Health Network has hired Congressman Mike Turner’s wife, Lori Turner as their new Vice President of Market Development and Strategic Communications. Her firm did some work for Kettering Health Network back before the “Got Midwest” giant FAIL. Of course, considering many of Kettering’s top administrators are huge donors to her husband’s campaign, Read More
A perfect example of how we don’t do real economic development. The Twin Valley mental hospital can’t be reopened because- we don’t have a road to it. We spent millions of dollars to blight a neighborhood at Wayne and Wyoming for a speculative Kroger store- but, can’t come up with money to build a road Read More
Cincinnati is talking about outsourcing their police patrols to the Sheriff. By going through a fire/rehire, the Sheriff can put more officers on the street- and gain some economies of scale- not to mention, it’s a way to roll back salaries. Eventually, Dayton will be looking at similar options- or, go broke trying to keep Read More
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