Commissioner Dean Lovelace

How much is a Dayton City Commissioner overpaid?

Kettering recently put a charter change on their ballot (something Daytonians would find nearly impossible because the charter requires a percentage of registered voters instead of a percentage of voters in the last election) and cut their council members salary in half. Well folks, I’ve got news for you- cut Dayton City Commissioners salary in Read More

Dean Lovelace’s Dept. of Justice “Consent Degree” will cost Dayton $$$

Latest news on the forced intervention by the Department of Justice as distributed by the FOP chairman Randy Beane to the members of the union. This is complex litigation, and it’s not absolute that Beane’s interpretation is entirely correct, but, the reality is, no one knows how you can enforce a ruling that says “If Read More

Risk; and electing challengers

Seth Godin wrote about risk and apparent risk today on his blog. And while the Dayton Daily News seems to think (“Incumbents Joey Williams and Nan Whaley …are the best bets for Dayton voters.”) that adding one or two heretics to the Dayton City Commission would be a really bad decision- the reality is, it Read More

How your leaders fail you. Payday lenders less dangerous than big banking.

The financial crisis we’re in started when we deregulated banking. Banks got bigger, greedier, more powerful. My little local bank never would spend money on a lobbyist, but Bank of America, would spend lavishly. In Ohio, our legislators went after “Payday lenders” and their 500% interest rates which was a good thing, but, now- they Read More

Vote for Change in 08, but Dems think that Dayton should not change in 09

While Dayton will vote heavily for the Change candidate for President in November, the local slate will be all the same according to today’s Dayton Daily News: Dayton Mayor Rhine McLin … plans to seek a third term. … McLin has also asked the Compensation Board to freeze her salary in 2009 and the salaries Read More