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When downtown businesses shoot the city in the foot: Parking wars

You know those parking meters at The Greene? The ones where payment is optional and goes to charity? You know how you don’t have to pay for parking at any business anywhere in the suburbs? That The Greene has not one, not two, but THREE parking garages- and they are all FREE? And then we Read More

ScareCenter 7 shuts our city down (again)

On Valentine’s day in 2007 I wrote a post that said: we do a lousy job of clearing the streets in Dayton and there should be no excuse. via The economic impact of snow days. Of course there was more in that post, including the question of why every truck in the city wasn’t turned Read More

Quincy's Original Fish House cod on a bed of fries with 2 slices of bread.

Quincy’s Fish now open on W. Third Street

I’m lucky. I’ve been invited to the sneak peek, and stopped in on the quiet opening day. I’ve tried the Whiting, Perch and Cod- which is every fish on the menu, and I’m a fan. Now, full disclosure, I do work for Quincy’s- but, I’m going to make a confession- I don’t usually like fried Read More

Explaining irrational behavior in Dayton, Ohio

prolog: A word that people bandy about when they bring my name up is “crazy.” That is until they actually know me. Unfortunately, I’m cursed with something that isn’t valued much in Dayton- a very high IQ. It’s one of those things that I don’t care about, but what I do care about is my Read More

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