June 2013

The untold story of the Sa-Bai failure

Reading last Thursday’s DDn article about the failed gamble with the giveaway lease price to Sa-Bai, you’d think that even if the city got the building back, they somehow did OK because the Cincinnati-based tenant, Chanaka DeLanerolle,  did “$200,000” in build out: Dayton city officials strongly defended the lease, saying it was worth the gamble to Read More

Dead kids in Dayton

Zombie flicks seem to be all the rage these days. The un-dead coming to make us dead. That’s no help for Devonta Marquise Rayford, who died on June 13, and won’t have an 18th birthday. He was allegedly shot by a 17-year-old, whose name was published in the paper, Isaiah J. Coleman. Rayford went to Read More

Leitzell calls for charter change discussion on petitions

Mayor Gary Leitzell in an internal email to the City Manager and the City Commission calls for the city to no longer waste money trying to keep candidates off the ballot: I have read through the material submitted in the case that William Pace has filed against the Board of Elections. In that case he Read More

Privacy lost

I’ve said it before, the terrorists have won. Every time I’m asked to stick my hands up in the air at an airport by the TSA, I politely refuse and go through the pat down. I refuse to stick my arms up in surrender to my own government. The “Patriot Act” was passed quickly, without Read More

Esrati post primary campaign finance report

Better late than never. Here it is- the numbers are a little higher than I’d like- mostly due to mistakenly mailing postcards to people who voted early in person (although, with the number of them that returned, we’re going to have to do a little investigation). We’ve taken in some donations post deadline, since we’ve Read More

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