Yesterday, I posted documents showing City employees structuring a deal for IRG so UPS could get out of a long-term lease for a very valuable building that sits on city property. IRG stands to put a few million in their pocket right off the bat, with the city asking for a couple of years of Read More
The City of Dayton is finally counting its pennies- and trying to manage a shrinking budget with a shrinking income. However- the direction Tim Riordan and the city commission are taking is a going-out-of-business plan- instead of a process improvement strategy. The city has cut more than $21 million from the budget since 2008 and Read More
Imagine if you could wave a wand and travel back to the year 2000- and have $600 million of public money to invest- in the things public money was supposed to be used for? Or, even give it back to the taxpayers? A Dayton Daily News investigation found more than $1.5 billion in public and Read More
It started as “tool town” – but got stuck in the muck for so long that we outsourced our whole tool and die industry to China. The next shot was “tech town” a government-sponsored subsidized office complex with better branding. It screwed local real estate owners by offering ridiculously low rents in a market that’s Read More
Case Western Reserve University is stepping to the head of the line in research on the effect super-speed internet will have on communities. This project has been in the works long before Google dangled “Google fiber” out there and Dayton responded with the www.averageandawesome.com website (where if you haven’t registered- please do). From the Cleveland.com Read More
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