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Alan Gabel is about to get a dear John letter from the Montgomery County Board of Elections. He was rejected in February for petition vagaries  (the judgeships are identified by their start date of term, he had the wrong date for the seat) from running for judge against Erik Blaine for Montgomery County Common Pleas […]

The School Board has spent $12,500 of their money defending themselves, to claim that they are entitled to have illegal secret meetings about closing schools in Dayton. The City, using their own attorneys has probably spent about a quarter of that. There is no question that the task force was a public body, according to […]

In the “you should have to pass a math test to be elected” file, we can add this pie in the sky malarkey plan by Greater Dayton Premier Management for building low income housing in West Dayton: A $96 million proposal to transform public housing in West Dayton calls for demolishing Hilltop Homes, shrinking and […]

Herb Davis, retired from the Montgomery County Veterans Service Commission last week and his position is posted. The salary range is wide, and the potential contract long. You must be a veteran, able to deal well with bureaucracy- and work under a board that doesn’t play well with others. For those of you who don’t […]

The first time I heard the word capricious was in college. It was from my political science professor, Jim Jacobs at Wright State, in a conversation about the enforcement of historic zoning laws in Dayton. I felt I was being unfairly singled out for improving my $14,500 house, while a house in the Oregon District, […]