After spending a few days in NYC on business, I came back to Dayton and immediately was reminded of why we’re Dayton and NYC is well, NYC. Don’t get me wrong- I was glad to be home and despite eating some of the best food of my life (recurrent theme- amazing prosciutto). I walked into Read More
If you wonder why Dayton doesn’t have as many police officers as it used to, or firefighters, or recreation centers- it’s because we’ve been so busy doing “economic development” and “job creation” to the effect that fewer people want to live in neighborhoods considered unsafe, and plummeting property values as people move to where they Read More
In yesterday’s New York Times, the oracle of Omaha wrote a plea for Congress to “Stop coddling the super-rich” and raise his taxes and all those of the people making more than $1million a year. I highly recommend you read it- and then laugh: OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did Read More
In the UK where me Mum is from, they have a word they like to use for layoffs and for downsizing: redundant. It even has specific legal meaning. In Ohio we’ve never met a jurisdiction, legislator, or representative that didn’t think the world couldn’t live without them or what they do. It’s contributed to government Read More
It’s absolutely fitting that in the midst of a huge financial crisis our “representatives” in “government” are “multi-tasking” while making the $700 Billion decision- to make sure wooden arrows get a break too. You know, the kinds you could use, along with garlic, to kill a vampire? The problem is, the bloodsuckers are the ones Read More
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