With huge budget cuts from the state, cuts in federal stimulus funds, and a shrinking population and tax base, cities are facing squeezes all over. Tipp News Daily had an article about their council cutting health insurance as a benefit for themselves: Tipp City Council Member Joe Gibson is proposing that the City eliminate health Read More
The Ohio EPA is discussing the licensing of compost heaps. Not the one in your backyard- but, if you have a community garden- the new standards will require logging of all waste contributed. That’s right- want to throw your banana peels and coffee grounds into a community compost pile (like we have in South Park) Read More
Since we get politicians for life, with no chance of recall or petitioning for the sake of changing our charter, we are also doomed to have stupid police officers in the name of integrating our security forces. It’s also causing Dayton Ohio to become the laughing stock of the country. From the Dayton Daily: The Read More
When state legislatures across the country started trying to solve their budget woes- they looked for a scapegoat for their dropping sales tax collections and found Amazon. But before you blame Amazon, try looking at the insane sales tax laws we have in Ohio- and I’m sure are duplicated in other states: different sales tax Read More
When I circulate petitions- I can’t walk through City Hall and hit every desk along the way as former Mayor Richard Clay Dixon used to do. I also can’t circulate my petition inside priority board offices, at the RTA transit hub or on city property as I’ve been told. Yet- we have our current elected Read More
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