To the school board members, my firm, The Next Wave, is not under contract to do PR for you, we’re working on process improvement and improving enrollment. But, had we been giving PR advice- and trying to help you prepare for any future levy, we would have recommended a few things: Legislation that arrives on Read More
The Dayton Public School board is being rushed to vote to give away 15 years of taxes so that General Electric will pay UD payments in lieu of taxes. The big question isn’t why, but is this legal? The Why is supposedly in the name of “economic development” so that GE won’t go somewhere else Read More
Used to be that taxes were paid by working people to provide them with services from the government. The services included shared infrastructure like roads and sewers, safety services like police, fire and national defense, public education, immunization- the list goes on. Most of what government spent money on was for the good of all. Read More
How do we make sure our region goes belly-up? Keep raising taxes to cover the mistakes of our leaders. We have too many municipalities, too many different taxation districts, too many different rules and WAY too many Chiefs for an area that is shrinking. Why did Reynolds & Reynolds move from Dayton to Kettering? Maybe Read More
It’s not often that I quote myself in posts, but for this one, it seems appropriate- I wrote this back in January. I dedicated to F.B.- who didn’t make it out of the hospital, R.I.P. You are missed. Here is the excerpt: Rooming houses, the regulated and inspected type, aren’t that much different from hotels Read More
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