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It is who you know. DDC hires Howard?

While it’s almost impossible to figure out why the Dayton Development Coalition gets to hand over no-bid contracts to  Congressman Turner’s wife, and pays its President almost more than the City Manager of Dayton and the County Administrator COMBINED, it’s even more interesting to think about what could be done with the money instead? Regional Read More

Cleveland launches Gigabit internet experiment

Case Western Reserve University is stepping to the head of the line in research on the effect super-speed internet will have on communities. This project has been in the works long before Google dangled “Google fiber” out there and Dayton responded with the www.averageandawesome.com website (where if you haven’t registered- please do). From the Cleveland.com Read More

Inherit the Wind and Dayton today

I’d not seen “Inherit the Wind” about the Scopes “Monkey” trial in another Dayton, Dayton Tennessee. Now I have and there are some parables for this modern day Dayton to be recognized: note: all indented text via Inherit the Wind (1960) – Memorable quotes. Henry Drummond (the movie name for Clarence Darrow): Progress has never Read More

Let’s send the Dayton sound global: marketing we can afford.

The Dayton Daily News finally called the Dayton Development Coalition marketing inept after their two high profile failures: The $900k “Get Midwest” campaign that made a lot of money for Congressman Turner and his wife- and this week’s “Dayton Region Rally” which was more like a college lecture. What we need to do is put Read More

And another one packs her bags

For all of the efforts of the “Creative Class” movement in Dayton, I was sitting with a friend on Friday who is packing her bags for Austin Texas. Marianne is a talented licensed massage therapist who has been practicing for at least 10 years in the area. She has about 500 clients. None of them Read More

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