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The dirty little secrets of the Board of Elections
The Montgomery County Board of Elections hasn’t exactly been a mountain of piety over the years. More like the…
Esrati files against the Board of Elections: Your agenda items aren’t Oscar nominations
Dayton: Community activist David Esrati, filed pro se in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court today asking for the…
Public records requests, Freedom of Information act requests and their importance to democracy
The NY Times headline reads “Hidden Pentagon Records Reveal Patterns of Failure in Deadly Airstrikes” and…
Who to vote for: Dayton Public School Board- and why
This post is late. Mostly because I’ve been trying to get a crazy dangerous lawyer locked up before he shoots…
Did the Supreme Court just deputize you?
With the decision of the Supreme Court to allow the Texas abortion ban to take place, a new precedent has been set,…
Why is Tim Kambitsch above the law?
You didn’t elect Tim Kambitsch, but you did give him close to $200M of your hard-earned tax dollars to build new…
Texas gets public comments right
I love my readers, especially Jay Madewell, who slipped this link to me. It seems, someone in Texas realized that…
Forums on Media and Democracy that aren’t forums
I stepped up to the microphone to answer a question about what we can do to change things locally, after being…
Esrati wins action on library internal video
After almost 4 months of delays caused by the library supplying faulty video to Judge Gerald Parker, and pressure from…
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