In Dayton, our solution to the big hole in our population is to decrease the number of homes. It’s a rear guard,…
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The life and death of a small Dayton business
UPDATE MAR 2011-apparently it cost more to go bankrupt than to keep the doors open- and Motoscooto is back in…
Transparency of government, and why we can’t depend on the Dayton Daily News
Almost universally, the Dayton Daily News is hated by our elected leaders. You hear things like “they…
Counterintuitive Dayton budget priorities
The City of Dayton is finally counting its pennies- and trying to manage a shrinking budget with a shrinking income….
Is “Economic development” bad for the economy?
In our free-wheeling, “democratic” nation with our belief that capitalism solves all problems, we seem to…
Is Dayton a land of opportunity for Veterans?
We’ve heard the Richard Florida argument for a culture centered around the “Creative Class” as a…
Let’s raise the cost of doing business to keep business here: idiot logic
It’s bad enough that Ohio has a system of jurisdictions set up in the 1790s that makes so many tax districts and…
What would $600 million do in Dayton now?
Imagine if you could wave a wand and travel back to the year 2000- and have $600 million of public money to invest- in…
When Dayton stops being a reverse Robin Hood- then we can talk about tax increases
Yesterday, the question of corporate welfare was the subject of the Dayton Daily News- with Mayor Gary Leitzel…
Independence from quasi-government
It’s Independence Day. The day we celebrate when Americans long before us stood up and said that we’d had…
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