It is time to remove the Democratic Party faithful from power on the Dayton City Commission. Nan Whaley, Dean Lovelace, Joey Williams and Matt Joseph have sat on a commission that has been blindly grasping for solutions to our fair city’s challenges. Ask for...
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Hi, I’m Mayor Whaley and I want to tear down your city
With Nan Whaley leaving the safety of her incumbent seat on the Dayton City Commission to run for Mayor one has to wonder why? The plan for Nan to run for mayor and former mayor Rhine McLin to run for Nan’s empty seat was dashed when Rhine was named to the board...
Grand theft taxdollars
Aaron Sorkin writes television shows that force me to have an emotional response. I remember scenes and monologues from his shows, from others, I’m lucky to remember a good line or two. He speaks about things that are seemingly obvious, but in a way that makes...
A Dayton Streetlight Tax: because the Dayton City Commission can’t do its job
Now we have the Dayton City Commission about to shift the cost of lighting the streets to the property owners in Dayton because it has been so busy giving away the store that there’s no money left for basic services: The City Commission will vote next Wednesday...
Most favored developer status in Montgomery County?
In today’s Dayton Daily News we get to read about the “land bank” and how the city is wiping the debts off some sites that they’ve decided were over-encumbered by tax debt and making them available for development: The targeted properties...
Making election law as they go along
ALERT updated 9:38am After checking this with Montgomery County Board of Elections Director Steve Harsman, the following information: ANYONE can now file to run for Congress- even those who DID NOT file on Dec 7 (the legal 90 day window). Those who did file- will be...
Dayton loses talent: the Buckmans have left the building
It was probably around 1995 or so. Bill Rain and David Williams had just finished the Lofts of St. Clair, a conversion of the butt-ugly Pinsky Produce building on St. Clair. The aluminum siding had been torn off to expose a beautiful brick building. It had color- and...
Former local snake oil salesman has a new gig: Bill Pardue to ObjectFX
After getting fired from LexisNexis and the Gartner Group, and then taking the local economic development chumps on a ride with QBase, Bill Pardue has found a new patron saint: ObjectFX, a leading provider of geospatial intelligence solutions, today announced that...
You can’t trust Dayton City Hall
If you think the people running the City of Dayton have your best interests in mind, you are in for an eye opener. I warned of problems with this deal with Industrial Realty Group last week. First, meet our local hometown hero: Mark Herres, CEO of The Builders...
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...
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