After the debacle of Wall Streets epic fail leading to the 2009 economic crash, the government forced the consolidation of banks with standards that included a “stress test” to make sure none of them were “too big to fail” and other nonsense….
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Tax more or spend less? Introducing Reconstructing Dayton
I’ve mentioned Reconstructing Dayton a few times before on this site. As of this writing, it has exactly 4 posts. That will probably change now. Today, at the County meeting at 6pm to discuss the .25% sales tax increase, we’ll have a frank talk about the…
Court clerks are jerks in Montgomery County
We have too many clerk of courts in Montgomery County. We have too many courts too. In the entire state of Wisconsin and Florida, there is one universal courts website. All cases, criminal, civil, probate, are managed in one place. They have one login per attorney,…
Why Lynn Cooper deserves your vote: The interview
Lynn Cooper is running for Montgomery County Clerk of Courts. Her opponent, is running from the law, but you’d never know it by his campaign. Lynn has worked in the clerks office for over 20 years, isn’t your typical politician, and is competent,…
Meet the newest enemy to the Monarchy of Montgomery County
You’ve heard of 6 degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon? In Dayton, it’s rare you’re more than 1.2 degrees of separation from people, unless you are an elected official or hold a patronage job. Then the factor goes down to .2 If you could look at…
Corruption- a refresher course
When unethical behavior becomes the norm, when corruption is standard operating procedure, when corrupt practices are expected instead of the exception, the rule of law becomes a joke. And a community that lives without rules- suffers. If you are looking for why every…
“What is Esrati’s end game”
A friend was asked this week, “you know Esrati, what’s his end game?” and my friend had no answer. Really, it hasn’t changed since I bought my crap house in South Park on Jan 28, 1986- the day the Challenger space shuttle blew up. Buy low, sell…
Final sales tax public hearing today 1:30 pm
For the second time in a week, the Dayton Day-Old News selectively quoted me at the first sales tax hearing. All they managed to get out of my presentation was that the sales tax was regressive, hurting those with the smallest incomes the most. What they left out was…
Reconstructing Dayton unearths county corruption in the prosecutors office
Following an anonymous tip to this site, Reconstructing Dayton, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, has revealed that the Montgomery County’s Prosecutor’s Office diverted “surplus funds” into extremely large employee bonuses, which cost the office/taxpayers over $1 million. This…
A voter information system?
A long time ago I made a Pecha Kucha presentation about how our American Political system was screwed up. That we’ve alienated voters by insisting that you have two choices, ketchup or mustard- and screw any other flavors of politicians. It was called…
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