The top paid administrator in Montgomery County is Deborah Feldman- her pay is around $180K That pales in comparison to what the Dayton Development Coalition pays its top honcho, who has been paid in the $300K range (numbers are hard to nail down because the DDC is always late in filing its financials). While all Read More
Today our country was officially sold out. In a 5-4 split along ideological lines, the Supreme Court gave corporations carte blanche to buy their politicians. Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in Read More
The financial crisis we’re in started when we deregulated banking. Banks got bigger, greedier, more powerful. My little local bank never would spend money on a lobbyist, but Bank of America, would spend lavishly. In Ohio, our legislators went after “Payday lenders” and their 500% interest rates which was a good thing, but, now- they Read More
Ohio Public Radio had an interesting story on the Ohio Department of Development– which is also missing a director. Unfortunately, they don’t have a full transcript- and you have to listen to hear the whole report: Ohio has lost hundreds of thousands of jobs in the last few years, and the state’s unemployment rate has Read More
Maybe I missed something in the Dayton Daily Newsless- but, this news from February’s Cleveland Plain Dealer (thank’s TG) covers the Fed’s raiding a defense lobbying firm that has given considerable amounts to Congressmen Hobson, Turner and Austria. PMA Group specializes in securing defense earmarks for clients in spending bills. The Center for Responsive Politics Read More
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