This isn’t a post about education. It’s about access to the data infrastructure. My friend David E. Bowman tweeted about the “Long tail of City’s” where access to data was discussed. That took me over to the IBM smarter cities site where they have this synopsis: A city is not some abstract organizational entity, but Read More
As usual, the Dayton Daily News, in an endorsement not available yet online, I posted it here. endorses the same old thing. They focused on my “strange idea” of making regional assets a regional asset- as one of the tools to get regionalism going. I guess they don’t understand that to gain power, you have Read More
Last night was another candidates forum. Not a debate. By order of speaking, the Mayor got to take a few final pot shots, without worry of being exposed as a fraud. The two points she made: 1) “The commission doesn’t meet in secret.” Flat out lie, and breaking the law. The commission is supposed to Read More
The Esrati Plan “Government of the people, by the people, for the people.” Abraham Lincoln said it more than 140 years ago and his adage is still essential today in creating a new system to encourage and manage community development. No Neighborhood Left Behind Neighborhoods are the building blocks of our city, yet for thirty Read More
When I first ran for Mayor, I talked about an ombudsman who would enter all complaints into a central database and then we’d evaluate how well we closed the issues. Each and every week. Now, with the internet, mobile apps, and all kinds of social media, we can develop a web enabled system of tracking Read More
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