Dayton City Manager Rashad Young

But does city hall listen? Employee cost saving suggestions ignored?

In today’s DDN the “Professional” manager is asking for crowd sourced solutions to the budget problem: City revenues are down across the board through April as income tax collections continue to slide $1.5 million below already conservative projections, according to information the finance staff gave city commissioners Wednesday, May 26. “We are at the same Read More

The Dayton executive pay scandal, over coffee

Well, here it is- the second video. We’re learning- but now- we cropped it a little close, and talked too long. David Esrati and Greg Hunter discussing the breakthrough journalism of Joanne Huist Smith at the Dayton Daily News as she uncovers yet another reason taxpayers should be questioning cuts in services: For three decades, Read More

How does nepotism happen in City Hall?

Either we have rules and policies, or we don’t. It seems there are two types of people who work for our city- honest, hard-working qualified types- and those on the “friends and family” plan. I’ve written about the cronyism before. I’ve written about the patronage jobs. I’ve questioned how some families seem to be entirely Read More

Dayton Daily News endorses business as usual: Whaley and Williams

As usual, the Dayton Daily News, in an endorsement not available yet online, I posted it here. endorses the same old thing. They focused on my “strange idea” of making regional assets a regional asset- as one of the tools to get regionalism going. I guess they don’t understand that to gain power, you have Read More

RTA loses money, CEO still get paid big bucks.

Reward without risk. That’s the secret to being CEO of a fortune 500 company in America. Apparently, the same thinking applies to being the CEO of RTA in Dayton: A five-year contract with no pay increase was approved Tuesday, June 2, for Greater Dayton RTA Executive Director Mark Donaghy. Trustees cited RTA’s continuing financial problems Read More

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