Montgomery County

Time to fix the cat problem in Dayton

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again- why don’t we license cats? Wild cats run free- while wild dogs get picked up. There is no place to take a cat you find running loose- at least not without paying someone to pick it up. Luckily, it seems that one person has a plan Read More

Grassroots Dayton Daily Show: v.13 Education and the 18 school districts

Why do we have 18 school districts in Montgomery County? Why do we have several governments in many of these districts? Why do we insist on living on with lines on a map drawn for a different time, and a different place all these years later? Are we getting the best education for our kids- Read More

Grassroots Daily show v.8: oil and opium edition.

Week 2 of the Grassroots Dayton Daily Show featuring Greg Hunter and David Esrati (both who’ve run for Congress). In this rapid-fire edition we talk about layoffs at Montgomery County, Congressman Turner’s new digs, Tiger Woods (why not, everyone else is), the surge in Afghanistan and why we fight- hence oil and opium. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIVOJvnbKkY[/youtube] We’re Read More

Maybe we’re thinking of the wrong kind of unigov?

The recent Kettering Health Network move in Greene County had me thinking of what impact a new health campus might have on Montgomery County. What happens when doctors, who work at Kettering- want to move to Beavercreek- so that they won’t have to pay income taxes? A giant sucking sound? Possibly. One of the reasons Read More

Is it the homes- or the people we’re worried about? Foreclosure crisis

The redistribution of wealth continues. Foreclosing on people who at one time were making payments, but stopped because of job loss due to the economy, is going to come back and bite us all in the backside. These homes are taking huge drops in value- and while the “capitalists” among us say that’s a market Read More

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