Jeff

No. 1 Oakwood 108.6 No. 2 Mason 108.5 No. 3 Centerville 105.4 No. 4 Botkins 105.4 No. 5 Russia 105.2 No. 6 Sugarcreek 104.7 No. 7 Kings 104.4 No. 8 Vandalia-Butler 104.3 No. 9 Springboro 103.9 No. 10 Anna 103.8 This is the top 10. Of all these, except one, they are all rural communities (Botkins!) or affluent suburban areas (mostly on the fringe of the urbanized area , except for Oakwood). Vandalia is the only one thats not like this..thats more of a middle class area. And I have no idea where the "Kings" school district is. The interesting thing here is that the school districts that used to have good reputations ...Northmont and Yellow Springs, rank lower on the list.

Yeah, I remember when something like this happened in Sacramento back in the 1980s, when Sacto passed a gay rights law. The Sacto version of Burress' group had also collected a bunch of petitions, filing them right before the deadline. But local gay activitists volunteered to work for the recorders office and helped check the petitions, which found enough of the signatures where invalid for various reasons (forgeries, people not living within the city limits, and so forth). Very similar situation to what happened in Cincy. But this is quite a relief!

Dayton appears to continue its downward spiral.

It's almost impossible to find unbias journalism but I think NPR does a pretty good job at it. The only broadcast news source I listen to with any regularity is The Newshour. Easily the most evenhanded reporting on the tube. For fun op-ed I enjoy The McLaughlin Group (thank you CET!) and Washington Week and the Sunday morning pundit shows. Local newspapers. Toledo Blade is doing some of the best investigative journalism in Ohio these days. The Dayton Daily News used to be "OK" (I never considered on par with papers like the old pre-Gannett Louisville Courier Journal or the very newsy Sacramento Bee) but they have apparenlty either a new editor or publisher or both and it really sucks now (yet I don't see them as being as anti-urban as the Enquirer). The Enquirer as a right wing news source for SW Ohio is pretty well known. They even sell it here in south suburban Dayton for the suburban GOPers who can't take the even somewhat centerist DDN. The interesting thing about the DDN and the Akron B-J was that they where the start of two media empires...Cox Newspapers and Knight-Ridder. The B-J was, in its day, a pretty good newspaper, too.

I think or seem to have read that Mead had bought out there before MDC. It was probably a speculative investment and maybe an idea as a place for expansion. Back in the late 60s Monarch Marking and Huffy had relocated out to the Dayton Mall area (before the Mall itself), and NCR had built a big training center very near Newmark. So Mead was probably participating in the real estate speculation in the vicintiy of the OH-725 exit and the future I-675/I-75 interchange.

DAYTON — Democratic congressional candidate Stephanie Studebaker withdrew Tuesday, setting up a special primary to find a replacement to run against U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Centerville. Studebaker's announcement came after her arrest and the arrest of her husband, Sam, 39, on domestic violence charges after a Sunday altercation in their Washington Twp. home. Both were released from jail that day on bond and will be arraigned Monday in Kettering Municipal Court. >snip< The Studebakers' arrests came after both claimed they'd been hit by the other. Their two children, who were home at the time, were placed with a relative by Washington Twp. police and will not be returned home until Montgomery County Children Services has completed an assessment, said Ann Stevens, spokeswoman for children services (from todays Dayton Daily News).

Newmark already has quite a bit of office building, but there is plenty of open space there too. I was wondering how much of the fields and woods there are part of the "park" in the office park concept and how much was avaible for development. Mead used to own the land between MetLife and Austin Road, too (between Springboro Pike and I-75), so they had a big real estate presence down there

Defense contracting? That drives a segement of the local infotech sector.

This should be great. I really like Crate and Barrel.

Looks like some of us where pretty good on guessing the city, and the rough location, too. Now the I-75 Cin-Day cooridor will have some "destination retail" other than Traders World and the Hustler Superstore.

My dad had a girlfreind in Superior.

He also said clients find parking downtown difficult, parking fees a hassle, and they feel less safe coming downtown. "Most of our clients do not want us to be in downtown Dayton," he said. There you have it. People don't want to pay for parking. Also, I read at the Esrati blog that Maureen Pero, the director of the Downtown Dayton Partnership, is leaving.

(I forgot all about this one, from 1975) Fool for the City, Foghat. Goin' to the city, got you on my mind, Country sure is pretty, I'll leave it all behind, This is my decision, I'm comin' home to stay this time. 'Cause I'm a fool for the city, I'm a fool for the city, Fool for the city, I'm a fool for the city. Breathin' all the clean air, sittin' in the sun, When I get my train fare, I'll get up and run. I'm ready for the city, air pollution here I come! 'Cause I'm a fool for the city, I'm a fool for the city, I'm a fool for the city, I'm a fool for the city. I'm like a fish out of water, I'm just a man in a hole. The city lights turn my blues into gold. I ain't no country boy, I'm just a homesick man. I'm gonna hit the grit just as fast as I can. I'm tired of layin' back, hangin' around, I'm gonna catch that train, then I'll be city bound. {Rod - Solo} I ain't no country boy, I'm just a homesick man. I'm gonna hit the grit just as fast as I can. I'll get off on Main Street, step into the crowd, Sidewalk under my feet, yeah, traffic's good and loud. When I see my inner city child, I'll be walkin' on a cloud. 'Cause I'm a fool for the city, I'm a fool for the city, I'm a fool for the city, I'm a fool for the city... I'm a fool, (Fool for the city) A fool for the city, (Fool for the city) I'm a fool, (Fool for the city) A fool for the city, (Fool for the city) I'm a fool, (Fool for the city) A crazy fool, (Fool for the city) I'm a fool yea, (Fool for the city) A fool for the city, (Fool for the city) (Fool for the city) (Fool for the city) I ain't no country boy, woo! (Fool for the city) (Fool for the city) Woo! (Fool for the city) (Fool for the city) A Fool for the city (Fool for the city) (Fool for the city) Whoo! (Fool for the city) (Fool for the city) ... >cue electric guitar noodling riff<

I just work here.

When I was a kid Legos wheren't as elaborate as they are today..they were still more "architectural" back then, though they did have blocks with these wheels and tires on them so you could build cars and such. To like cities or to be interested in cities is a minority position, I think, here in the United States. The cultural preference is for the rural or small town, or even wilderness.

The Mather Tower has a hotel in it now. The rooms are supposed to be tiny, but imagine the view!

Neat name. But shouldn't it be Burg Wolfenstein, or Schloss Wolfenstein?

I get the Legos and Maps, but Encylopedias?

Yeah I think so for me, too.

Second from the bottom, looking down. This is the northern part of Streeterville, built on lake fill. That is the neighborhood I stay in when I go to visit Chicago..usually in a hotel around there. The highrise to the left with the pool in back has a neat little mini-mart in the basement or lower level...sort of an upscale convenience store. This neighborhood was alos Mies Van Der Rohes stomping ground after he relocated to Chicago from Gemrany as he lived in the area (and his famous skyscrapers can be seen along the lake..the first steel and glass modern skyscrapers in the USA, from the late 1940s). The last shot has Douglas Park in the lower left corner, near the Little Village/Lawndale area (really more Lawndale).

Nonprofits..501c3 charitable organizations...are usually started by volunteers and survive on various types of charitable giving and also some government grants. Depending on the size they will have some mix of paid staff and volunteer workers, down to the very small ones, which are usually mostly volunteer. Nonprofits are sometimes are under contract to local governments to provide social services of various sorts, but they are not really started by government. If there are a lot of nonprofits in a community that means there are a lot of people doing volunteer work or seeing a need and forming a charity or service organization to fill it, as well as good donor base of local philanthopy It's probably a good measure of the soical capital in a community if there are a lot of nonprofits active in various things.

....but at Wayne-Wyoming, it is a rather walkable area (besides some depressed streets) and I think a more "urban" shopping center (with on-street buildings) would work well (especially as a electric trolley goes by the damned place). Exactley!

^ trick photography.

I was thinking of examples in Chicago, like the Lawndale area, which had the old Sears Roebuck warehouses and offices. This was in a depressed inner-city area, and was redeveloped as residential but also as a small shopping center with some basic retail for the residents. The old Sears site was just one example as theres a lot of redevelopment of old industrial sites in Chicago for shopping In the Dayton contex, the idea is to improve quaity-of- life to some extent, having this type of shopping close in, rather than forcing people to take the bus or drive way out to the suburbs to do shopping. I guess thats what this Wayne & Wyoming thing is too. But it seems there is enough vacant space in the city to do this already. The brownfield as city park concept..hmm...well is that is sort of what happened to the old Dayton Tire site?..it looks like a sort of a nature reserve. I can think of a few other candidates too (McCall Printing site)

That house has always impressed me, particularly that corner turret.