Montgomery County Port Authority

The “risk takers/job creators” myth

The “American dream” is that this is a land of opportunity. America is supposed to be the magical place where anyone can work their way up from poverty to the presidency, or at least that’s what we’ve believed. Recent studies found that our country is now far from that. Americans enjoy less economic mobility than Read More

Workflow One: Your “investment”- the poor financing the wealthy

The bankruptcy reorganization of Workflow One story I broke yesterday had my name being uttered with some expletives in the executive offices at the corner of Monument and Patterson. Apparently, releasing the internal memo was bad form on my part. But, let’s ask the really hard questions about this business. How much have the taxpayers Read More

Workflow One reorganizes in Chapter 11

Workflow One, the former Relizon, the spin-off of Reynolds and Reynolds and the recipient of some very nice “economic development” incentive packages to be in their Port Authority-financed building on the corner of Monument and Patterson announced to employees yesterday that they are going to restructure using Chapter 11: Wednesday Sept 29 at 10:01 PM Read More

Austin Road Addendum: Dayton/Montgomery County Port Authority involvement

One thing I forgot to mention from the Downtown Dayton Partnership’s presentation on Austin Road yesterday- there are four quadrants of land around the interchange. The two on the East side are both owned by RG Properties. The West side is optioned by RG Properties. Part of the North West quandrant- is owned by the Read More