city of dayton

Why do the citizens have to pay for the city’s real estate fetish?

The City of Dayton has a bad habit, it likes to buy real estate with no public use in mind. It’s not just the two buildings in Webster Station– it’s all over the city. And it’s been going on for a long time. Duane Jack was a self-styled real estate developer who lived in South Read More

No bid to a no-name company? Dayton Airport deal suspicious

Whenever I see a no-bid deal involving any local government body, I start questioning the process. From today’s Dayton Daily News: Dayton International Airport is requesting City Commission approval to pay a company up to $36,000 over three months to recommend a new telephone system at the airport. The commission will be asked today to Read More

Dayton gets to rehire firefighter after losing lawsuit on drug testing

We can’t hire new firefighters because of the Department of Justice lawsuit, and are “browning out equipment” because we are paying too much in overtime due to the shortage. Now we get to hire back a firefighter dismissed over three years ago for a second positive drug test for cocaine because the city attorney didn’t Read More

An Esrati panhandling solution proposal

Why do “good Samaritans” donate to our “Card-carrying panhandlers” on street corners- which apparently has become such a lucrative job- that there are now “organized panhandling gangs” working the streets (if you believe some comments). They do it- because they think, by the grace of god, that could be me. The economy is tough. People Read More

Sign IRG placed on UPS sorting facility doors

How IRG does “marketing”

The deal isn’t even done on the former UPS site at Dayton International Airport- and the TSA security required by the FAA are now gone. IRG has posted this professional sign in the window- this is what they do with their quick $3 million in profit: Note, the fence and security normally required for FAA Read More

Newer Posts
Older Posts