Citywide development

Responsible tax dollar management: end job creation grants

While the nation is focused on the auto bailout, there has been a long history of politicians handing out our tax dollars for “job creation” without any responsibility. Promise “job creation” and get free money. However, when you don’t create jobs, or even lay people off, the tax dollars don’t come back. Read this about Read More

How to balance the Dayton budget- and get union cooperation

While the rest of us may have to cut our cable bill, eat meat less often, drive less and otherwise tighten our belts through the latest economic crunch, the three main Dayton unions aren’t willing to budge on pre-negotiated automatic raises. Unfortunately, we don’t have a Commission that knows how to advise a City Manager Read More

Reynolds bails on downtown

Sprawl will kill us all. In the final act of a three act play, orchestrated by corporate chieftains and played out by foolish bureaucrats, the series of tax breaks and “development deals” finalizes with the CEOs laughing- and the taxpayers not getting what they were promised. Reynolds & Reynolds used to be entirely in Dayton. Read More

Cliburn Manor comes down- McLin wants a “Senior Getto” in it’s place

You could tell who Karin Manovich voted for in the last Mayoral election when she took the podium after Mayor McLin got done with her address to the group of dignitaries and muckity-mucks at the tear down ceremony. McLin had suggested to Dick Fergeson from University of Dayton that they try to build a “senior Read More

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