April 2011

Required watching: The Tillman Story

One thing about Netflix is that random discovery isn’t quite random. It’s for this reason, I sort of hope neighborhood video stores don’t go away. I also hope we always have libraries- and printed books- because, one day, once all the batteries wear out- there needs to be some proof that all this existed. Friday Read More

State of the City of Dayton

Mayor Leitzell made his state of the city address yesterday- and wisely posted it on his blog so that he didn’t have to count on the media to get it right. Using the web to skirt the media is a step forward. However- speaking in platitudes isn’t an answer, a plan or even remotely what Read More

Who is sleeping with the vultures in City Hall?

In the grand rush to do anything that looks like progress the City Commission is in a rush to do a deal with IRG, the same people who just took the Moraine GM truck plant for chump change. A source tells me that the city is due revenues from UPS for the former Emery Air Read More

The Feds shut down the wrong casino

Let’s see- GE pays no corporate taxes. We have hedge fund managers collecting billions a year– while making the global economy fail. Angelo Mozilo gets to pay back a pittance of his pay in return for throwing millions of Americans into foreclosure- but no criminal prosecution. Ignore the 10% unemployment figures, ignore the US workers Read More

The systematic devaluation of the little people’s America

While Bill Nuti is being wined and dined by our elected leaders and paid a princely sum for losing value of a once great company, the effects of his actions are killing the people who still have no choice about paying the taxes that support our government. First, the taxpayers in N.Y. were hit for Read More

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