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Greed before sport: Olympic hockey

For today’s Dayton Grassroots Daily Show we discussed the Olympics- and our feelings about the possibility of not having N.H.L. players in the international games. It seems that Gary Bettman, NHL commish, thinks that the Olympics aren’t good for the NHL- even though viewership of the Canada/USA game on Sunday had better ratings than game Read More

Investing in youth sports?

We’ve seen the last twenty years of failure by local governments investments in private corporations. We’ve also seen a rise in gangs, drop out rates, crime. Why? Because the City of Dayton stopped investing in the youth- and youth sports programs. We’ve cut our parks and rec’s program to bare bones. Look at Kettering- a Read More

Dayton Grassroots Daily Show v.18: Campaign finance reports discussed

Your daily show hosts, David Esrati and Greg Hunter talk about the campaign finance reports filed by Dayton’s Rhine McLin, Nan Whaley and Kettering’s Ashley Webb and Amy Schrimpf. A lot can be learned from these documents- like who owns whom, when it comes to local politics. Good luck finding these reports online- it seems Read More

The real reason Dayton can’t regionalize.

There is a great article on Good.is about “Identity theft for Cities” that I’ve been waiting to talk about (after my last debacle post about race and regionalism. Maybe this time- we can keep the comments on subject.) If you look on a map of the globe- we’ll be lucky to see Dayton with a Read More

Grassroots morning show: v.5 – public records

Anyone can find out everything about your divorce or your prostitution arrest- but, finding out who bought which politician is a lot harder. Coincidence?  Watch and tell us what you think. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgDQNtcsFMc[/youtube] It’s short. So enjoy.

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