Kroger

Lots optioned, nothing gained: the Wayne Ave Kroger Debacle

December 31, 2009, came and went. We were all so busy wondering what the new mayor would bring, that we just forgot about a couple of million tax dollars that were spent for nothing. Yep- in the grand design of government as a developer, the City of Dayton made a whole bunch of bad bets Read More

Why Oakwood will have better schools in the future

Reading an article in the Dayton Business Journal about school districts thinking of 4 day school weeks to save on gas, it became really obvious that the idea of busing students to school is obsolete. Dayton Public Schools use 40,000 gallons of diesel per month. At $4.50 a gallon, that’s $180,000 being spent just on Read More

Kroger gets Dayton to be their flunky

“Stick to the knitting” was one of the insights shared in the first mega-selling business book “In search of excellence” by Tom Peters. It meant that exceptional companies did what they did best and hired others to do everything else. The city of Dayton has spent way too many hours getting involved in locating a Read More