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The plan for Wright State after the fall

January 15, 2019 @ 10:13 pm

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The secret plan for Wright State after it goes belly up was accidentally leaked today, as our new Ohio Governor accidentally slipped the tea leaves into the Dayton Daily news: DeWine’s administration is already looking at infrastructure readiness in cities surrounding Wright-Patterson. He said he’d like to see available buildings right off base so that […]

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Sunshine laws smackdown case continued (that's delayed for us non-lawyers)

January 14, 2019 @ 3:27 pm

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Judges were assigned Jan 2, 2018. The panel was to be Judges Froelich, Welbaum, Tucker. Apparently, in their reviews of the case so far, one of them determined a conflict and has recused themselves. update: “Judge Jeffrey E. Froelich has recused himself from this appeal. The case will go back into the court’s scheduling process. […]

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Merge school districts or die

January 13, 2019 @ 9:53 am

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Dayton and Jefferson Township schools are on takeover watch and Trotwood just dodged a bullet. All are currently struggling to keep students and relevancy as vouchers and open enrollment at neighboring districts are going to continue to suck students (and the accompanying state funding) away. Trotwood is adding open enrollment this year, which will suck […]

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You're invited! The Sunshine Laws Smackdown event. FREE! Tuesday Jan 15, 2019

January 3, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

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The Dayton Public Schools had a committee hold an illegal secret meeting to decide what schools to close. I filed a lawsuit to hold them accountable to the Sunshine laws. It got dismissed by Judge Richard Skelton on really stupid grounds: He said I failed to prove they deliberated in a meeting I wasn’t allowed […]

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The size of the pie. Winners and losers

January 2, 2019 @ 10:48 pm

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Last nights post had some interesting offline feedback. The most insightful came from a friend who used to work in the “economic development” field in the region- who left about 5 years ago. He’s now working in the Research Triangle (and not for LexisNexis) and says they don’t have the unbelievable asset of Wright Patt- […]

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The rise of the quasi-public, non-profit slush funds and their outrageous behavior

January 1, 2019 @ 11:36 pm

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While President Trump is putting the kibosh on a cost of living adjustment pay raise for federal workers, there are a bunch of people working in “non-profits” doing “quasi-public” work getting paid outrageous salaries with little or no oversight, spending your tax dollars like it’s play money. The proliferation of these types of organizations in […]

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