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Jeff Mims
Why you shouldn’t vote until election day in Dayton
Early voting starts Tuesday, Oct. 7, but in Dayton that also means the dirty tricks season begins. From attack mailers t…
All the news you don’t get anywhere else- briefly
Esrati.com once again scooped Dayton’s local media, exposing who will take the fall for Montgomery County Jail’s fai…
The high cost of keeping Dayton’s Culture of Corruption in power
Dayton’s political machine keeps humming—propped up by no-bid contracts, incestuous hires, secretive elections, and …
Why the new police station downtown is a rush job
Dayton’s plan for a new downtown police station raises serious questions about backroom deals, inflated costs, and pol…
Karen Wick and the Dayton Daily News can’t tell you the truth. Esrati.com can.
In this exclusive post, Esrati.com exposes how Dayton City Commission candidate Karen Wick lied about her age — a fact…
How dumb can we be in Dayton?
Dayton’s pool policy is making waves for all the wrong reasons. Firefighters monopolize public lap lanes for training …
Why is Judge Skelton still on the bench instead of in a cell?
There are two sets of rules in Ohio- one for common folk, and another for our electeds. It was pretty obvious that the…
Who’s to blame for dead dropouts?
There it was all over my Facebook feed, comments about how wrong the Dayton cops were for shooting Brian “Big…
Losing faith in the judicial branch: 3rd Federal judge recuses from Esrati FOIA case
Judge Michael H Watson recused himself from the case Esrati v DOJ on May 31 2022, without specifying a reason. He…

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