Two-Way Streets Equal All-Way Confusion
July 25, 2010 by Jenny Rapson
Filed under Opinion
So, if you haven’t noticed, construction crews are busy messing up converting 18 blocks of downtown Dayton’s one-way streets into two-way streets.
Am I the ONLY one who doesn’t like this idea?? (Don’t answer that, no one asked me anyway.) But seriously. WHO are they doing this for? If you already live, work, or frequent downtown [...]
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Dayton in the Thick of the Battle for Baby Vanessa
July 11, 2010 by Jenny Rapson
Filed under Opinion
A hotly-contested custody case that has garnered national attention is heading from Orange County, California, back to where it started – here in Dayton.
Stacey Doss, a single woman from Orange County, adopted daughter Vanessa at birth in June 2008. Vanessa was born in Dayton and her birth mother had been matched with Doss through a [...]
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When Street Art & Government Clash
July 4, 2010 by Bill Pote
Filed under Downtown Dayton, Featured Articles, Opinion
The City of Dayton seems to be stuck somewhere between two forces. The first is a government mired in an old bureaucratic attitude and uncreative culture with strict rules that focus on regulating instead of facilitating, perhaps from a different era when old captains of industry controlled things in the community. The other is a [...]
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Dayton Mayor Responds to Brookings Institute Ranking, DDN Reporting
July 2, 2010 by DaytonMostMetro.com
Filed under Government/Politics, Opinion
(the following was written by Gary Leitzell – Mayor, City of Dayton)
The June 16, 2010 article ‘Dayton metro area gets 9th worst ranking in U.S.’ does nothing except give citizens yet another out-of-context, “the sky is falling” dose of misinformation about our region’s economic health.
First, the Dayton region’s demographics are unfairly [...]
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Desolation Dayton
June 4, 2010 by J.T. Ryder
Filed under Government/Politics, Opinion
Tim Riordan’s “Listening Tour” And My Plea For Action
I attended one of the stops on Tim Riordan’s (Dayton’s current City Manager) “listening tour” on June 3rd at the Southeast Priority Board (2160 E. Fifth St.). There were around forty or fifty people crammed into the cramped board room, with representatives from the priority board, the [...]
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Wayne Avenue Widening Project – Good or Bad
The following was submitted by Hilary Ross Browning – resident of the South Park neighborhood. We invite comments from affected residents AND city staff – what do YOU think?
Along Wayne Avenue, lawn signs scream “Stop the Widening Project” and “City Unfair to us.” A seemingly simple infrastructure upgrade has angered many, and [...]
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d8n virus 1.25 – an RTA in Every Pot!
March 23, 2010 by Drexel Dave Sparks
Filed under Opinion
Dayton Mayor Gary Leitzell proposed looking into free RTA service and you would have thought he proposed an annual baby raping day or something from the regressive reaction he’s gotten thus far.
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d8n virus 1.24: We must feed our babies better, lest we be monsters
February 18, 2010 by Drexel Dave Sparks
Filed under Opinion
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The Dayton Police Department Clock-In Controversy
February 16, 2010 by Drexel Dave Sparks
Filed under Opinion
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d8n virus 1.22
January 24, 2010 by Drexel Dave Sparks
Filed under Opinion
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