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Fall of the last holdouts: The MVH empire grows agai

The Brown-Warren business district used to be almost continuous from Stewart straight into downtown. I came to Dayton long after 35 slashed across the south side of Downtown creating yet another mystical barrier defining downtown as a small little island disconnected from the rest of the city. About four years ago- the powers at city Read More

The quasi governmental slush fund

It used to be illegal to pass tax dollars off to private enterprise and to compete with private enterprise, so a whole breed of new quasi-governmental slush funds were contrived. These were kept off the public books- even though they were using public money. Citywide Development was one of the first organizations of this type, Read More

Dayton’s declining revenue and rising costs: one solution: tax hospitals

The City of Dayton, like every other business in the United States has been getting hit with increasing health insurance premiums to cover their employees. In fact, the major sticking point in most negotiations with the unions involves the costs of health insurance. Facing declining revenues, the City Manager has been working at decreasing the Read More

DPS Levy will fail until they learn marketing 101

I’m biased. I own an ad agency. Dayton Public Schools uses someone else. I think that’s mistake number 1, but, I’ll share number 2 and 3… and maybe more. Would you buy this product? Same old thing, doesn’t have any new features or benefits. In fact, it will give you less than you got before, Read More

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