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Selling a CommodityThere 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 »
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 »
The Return of the Tea PartyThe 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 »
Tracking the Recession in Metro DaytonAn 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 »
From ending gun violence meeting- to meeting a gun on the streetI’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 »
150 years for Madoff, and the SEC gets off easyWhile 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 »
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 »
La CoulteraI 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 »
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 »
Capital Strike against DaytonDaytonology 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 »
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 »
Separated at Birth? Suburban Louisville & the Holy Roman EmpireThe 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 »
The Nan Whaley way- and, oh yes, complete streetsToday 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 »
Congressman Turner admits he’s for saleOne 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 »
Barriers to RegionalismThe 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 »
The Dayton anti-negativity movement has startedScreen 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 »
The Paradox or Why it is Hopeless in the Current Environment - No one will Touch PopulationThe 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 »
It’s hard to compete with the GovernmentThere 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 »
RTA won’t take advertiser’s money, while raising prices and cutting serviceIt’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 »
Dayton @ Columbus Pride ‘09Yer 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 »
Special Report
The Paradox or Why it is Hopeless in the Current Environment - No one will Touch PopulationThe 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 »
Ohio Election Commission Sets Probable Cause Hearing Concerning My Kettering School Levy ComplaintI 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 »
Local School Board Races Offer Grassroot Activist Opportunity — Grassroots Dayton Makes PlansOver 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 »
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 »
NCRis 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 »
Israel Is Our AllyAlliances 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 »
