According to the Board of Elections, we have 100,792 registered voters. According to the Census we have 141,527 residents. Simple math says 71% of our residents are registered to vote. But, wait- we have residents under 18, and therefore not eligible to vote- according to the census bureau, in Ohio, 23.5% are under 18. That Read More
Max Fuller is an affable guy. When I first moved into South Park he was active in South Park Preservation Works- our non-profit neighborhood development corporation that had rescued at least 8 homes. There was some controversy about him hiring himself and the rates he charged the corporation, but those homes are still standing and Read More
While claiming to be poor, unable to afford to staff services for the general public, the City of Dayton is giving a $100,000 housewarming gift to a law firm to move across the street: The Dayton office of Taft, Stettinius and Hollister LLP is the new tenant planned for the Kettering Tower…. The Cincinnati-based law Read More
The State already maintains a list of minority and small disadvantaged businesses, and has “MBE/EDGE certifications” for such. It would seem that once again, Dayton taxpayers are being asked to foot the bill to reinvent the wheel: City staff is reaching out through letters and e-mails to businesses statewide in hopes of finding minority-owned shops Read More
December 31, 2009, came and went. We were all so busy wondering what the new mayor would bring, that we just forgot about a couple of million tax dollars that were spent for nothing. Yep- in the grand design of government as a developer, the City of Dayton made a whole bunch of bad bets Read More
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