Features

Dayton Blog Feeds

Selling a Commodity

There is a smell of desperation in the air. The desperation of how to "sell" a bland and generic place like Dayton as a place to do business. Dayton is the average... Read more »

July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Health insurance must die.

I can’t raise my rates 40% in a year. Yet, I’ve had incredible, wild swings from year to year for health insurance for my small business.. Reading this... Read more »

July 3, 2009 | Comments Off

The Return of the Tea Party

The Tea Party folks produced one of the best-attended political events in recent memory back in the winter, and Daytonology was there.The organizers have continued... Read more »

July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Tracking the Recession in Metro Dayton

An update of the Recession comes to Dayton post measuring how the Dayton metropolitan statistical area (or MSA) slipped into hard times. This time Daytonology... Read more »

July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment

From ending gun violence meeting- to meeting a gun on the street

I’m still not sure what I was thinking, or if I was thinking. But, it has me thinking (and writing in a stream of consciousness style- sorry). I was headed... Read more »

July 1, 2009 | Comments Off

150 years for Madoff, and the SEC gets off easy

While there are people dancing in the streets about Madoff getting 150 years (they are now homeless, because of this cretin who stole their life savings) we haven’t... Read more »

June 30, 2009 | Comments Off

The Clueless form of Dayton City Management.

When was the last time you heard the City Manager asking the City Commission a question at a Commission meeting? A real question? When was the last time you heard... Read more »

June 30, 2009 | Comments Off

La Coultera

I haven't posted anything here in awhile; summer, new smoker, learning about Twitter, reading, avoiding grading, watching Pujols, catching up with a long-lost friend:... Read more »

June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment

inspiration, from a dead writer, and why not?

This is my 994th post. By weeks end, I’ll hit 1000. It won’t really matter, 1000 is only a number (and when compared to national budget figures, it’s... Read more »

June 28, 2009 | Comments Off

Capital Strike against Dayton

Daytonology usually doesn’t post much about partisan politics, but things are getting interesting so a brief excursion to the “paranoid style in American politics”.What... Read more »

June 28, 2009 | 5 Comments

Dayton Daily News finally catches on to the corporate welfare BS.

Today, the Dayton Daily News editorial board finally agreed with a position I’ve staked out as one of the primary threats to our society: Corporate welfare. It’s... Read more »

June 28, 2009 | Comments Off

Separated at Birth? Suburban Louisville & the Holy Roman Empire

The political evolution of both led to colorful, jigsaw puzzle maps of minor and major political entities intertwined with each other:Suburban Louisville:The Holy... Read more »

June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment

The Nan Whaley way- and, oh yes, complete streets

Today there was a meeting at the Dayton Convention Center to talk about “Complete Streets”- the new urbanist approach to multi-modal transportation infrastructure.... Read more »

June 27, 2009 | Comments Off

Congressman Turner admits he’s for sale

One of my father’s favorite jokes goes like this: A guy walks up to a starlet in a bar and says “Will you sleep with me for a million dollars?” She... Read more »

June 27, 2009 | Comments Off

Barriers to Regionalism

The Dayton Business Journal has some extensive reportage on regionalization issue due to a recent panel discussion hosted by the D B-J. There will be another panel... Read more »

June 27, 2009 | 2 Comments

The Dayton anti-negativity movement has started

Screen shot of Dayton Business Spotlight site Outside the halls of local media outlets, there are people who actually like Dayton. Phil Herzing was living in NY... Read more »

June 25, 2009 | Comments Off

The Paradox or Why it is Hopeless in the Current Environment - No one will Touch Population

The Oil Drum: Europe | The financial return on energy invested This may enable the global population and economy to grow beyond the date of peak fossil fuel supplies... Read more »

June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment

It’s hard to compete with the Government

There has been a question of what kind of deal Art Chin and Jerry Gillotti had on their spaces in the Transportation Center. Now, it appears that a new tenant is... Read more »

June 24, 2009 | Comments Off

RTA won’t take advertiser’s money, while raising prices and cutting service

It’s time for heads to roll at RTA. While the board is being told that they have to cut routes and raise fairs, they aren’t being told that RTA chief... Read more »

June 24, 2009 | Comments Off

Dayton @ Columbus Pride ‘09

Yer humble host has been going to the Columbus Gay Pride Parade since 1988, which was his first Pride parade.That parade ended at the Statehouse and was subject... Read more »

June 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment


Special Report

The Paradox or Why it is Hopeless in the Current Environment - No one will Touch Population

The Oil Drum: Europe | The financial return on energy invested This may enable the global population and economy to grow beyond the date of peak fossil fuel supplies... Read more »

June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Ohio Election Commission Sets Probable Cause Hearing Concerning My Kettering School Levy Complaint

I received notice today that The Ohio Elections Commission has scheduled a “Notice Of Probable Cause Hearing” dealing with my complaint (See PDF) concerning... Read more »

June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Local School Board Races Offer Grassroot Activist Opportunity — Grassroots Dayton Makes Plans

Over a year ago I finished a long analysis of Grassroots Dayton by mumbling “I want to suggest some workable answers to that question in future posts.” The... Read more »

June 19, 2009 | 2 Comments


Opinion

When We Reject The Gods Of Our Childish Imaginations, What Remains?

I wrote here that this weekend is my 40th college reunion at Asbury College. My college president, Dr. Dennis Kinlaw, is now 86 years old and is still writing books.... Read more »

June 25, 2009 | 3 Comments

NCR

is gone ... Symbolic, perhaps, of the end of Dayton's 20th century "company town" era. The final shutdown of Moraine Assembly was, too. NCR and GM, via Delco,... Read more »

June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Israel Is Our Ally

Alliances are not about friendship. They’re not about liking or being liked. Alliances are about common interests. Often, the common interest is having a common... Read more »

June 1, 2009 | 7 Comments