Before the tornadoes, before the mass shooting in the Oregon District, before the pandemic, the FBI arrested a few…
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Reconstructing Dayton
Reconstructing Dayton proposes changing the way Daytonian’s elect the commission
Today, Reconstructing Dayton, a 501(c)(4) non-profit has published a plan for review that will change the way the…
Turner now hates losing at the auction
Congressman Mike Turner has never had a problem taking money for his services. Every time he’s run, it’s…
Sunlight is the ultimate disinfectant of dirty government
Last Friday turned out to be a pretty OK day for Esrati.com You may remember my last post- questioning why AUSA Brent…
Self-inflicted governmental failure
While the idiots we elected to Congress continue to debate if it should be $600 or $200 a week in extra unemployment…
Meet the newest enemy to the Monarchy of Montgomery County
You’ve heard of 6 degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon? In Dayton, it’s rare you’re more than 1.2…
Pivot: cut cities, not services.
The Coronavirus Crisis is going to cause havoc with municipal budgets that run off income tax. With huge swaths of…
$39,446 says you can take photos in a library or in public
This is non-pandemic news. As civil rights laws are being trampled in the name of saving the human race, some of you…
and the rest of the Williams corruption story
Today, the Dayton Daily News has a very long story which is claiming to reveal new evidence in the Joey D. Williams…
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…
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