If your city thinks it should offer incentives for Amazon to come to town, it’s time to reevaluate your leadership. Sure, landing an HQ for a corporate behemoth is prestigious, and can put any city on the map, but, to offer incentives to one of the richest companies in the world, that has been stealing Read More
Dayton Public Schools were one of the biggest losers when NCR picked up and moved to Atlanta. NCR paid a lot of property tax that funded the system and when the University of Dayton acquired the 25 acres with the former World Headquarters building for $18 million, that revenue went away. UD doesn’t have to Read More
The Dayton Daily News editorial board, with prompting from George Will has finally realized that politicians’ involvement in “economic development” is nothing but a way to provide tax breaks to big business or their politically connected friends. It’s time to stop corporate welfare nationwide. No more tax breaks for “job creation” unless it’s mandated by Read More
Life has been good for “Meds, Feds and Eds” in the Miami Valley under Mike Turner- because that’s all we seem to have left. After GM closed its manufacturing plant here (after massive local tax dollar support- the clear coat paint line, not the federal bailout), NCR leaving (after massive Georgia and NYC public tax Read More
The company that forced its employees to donate to political campaigns or risk losing their jobs- Qbase, is apparently coming apart at the seams. Major firings this week including CEO Willard Pardue’s executive assistant and the son of the company’s “president” or “CFO” depending on where you look. Also taking one for the team is Read More
Recent Comments