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Now, can we solve the digital divide?

April 22, 2020 @ 9:27 pm

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In 2012, my campaign platform included the proposal that we have a citywide wifi system and that every Dayton Public Schools student be equipped with an iPad. I wanted to end the “digital divide.” I’d also have thrown in, that every time we run new gas lines, we include fiber optic lines as part of […]

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DPS adds 3 new board members, still allowing insanity to rule

April 19, 2020 @ 8:34 pm

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I couldn’t take the stupidity anymore of going to the meetings. Now with Mohamed Al-Hamdani in charge, the dismantling of the district for takeover by either the Mayor or a private corporation is on an accelerated path. While Superintendent Libbie Lolli continues to rule with fear and loathing, the revolving door is spinning so fast, […]

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Pivot: cut cities, not services.

April 19, 2020 @ 4:30 pm

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The Coronavirus Crisis is going to cause havoc with municipal budgets that run off income tax. With huge swaths of newly unemployed not kicking in to the local government coffers, most cities are tightening their belts and reassessing where they allocate funds. Some early projections show cities may lose 10% to 20% of 2020 projected […]

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The Coronavirus question that must be answered before Ohio reopens

April 17, 2020 @ 12:28 pm

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If you watched the HBO series, sometimes it was hard to remember who was a vampire and who wasn’t. I never watched the kiddy version- Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but, at least you knew that if you saw them in daylight, they weren’t a bloodsucking threat. Yesterday, Ohio Governor, under pressure from the flip-flopping-fool in […]

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$39,446 says you can take photos in a library or in public

April 13, 2020 @ 2:30 pm

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This is non-pandemic news. As civil rights laws are being trampled in the name of saving the human race, some of you may ignore this. Some may think it’s not important when people are dying from something we can’t see. And, like it or not- civil rights are something most of us don’t think about […]

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The post coronavirus conundrum

April 12, 2020 @ 8:24 pm

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I recently read the book “Shantaram” based on hearing someone talk about this concept, because, fundamentally- I disagreed, I believe that form follows function, and simplification is almost always superior to the complex, but, here’s the quote: Anything that enhances, promotes, or accelerates this movement toward the Ultimate Complexity is good,’ he said, pronouncing the […]

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