Let’s Have Some Painful Honesty For Once

It was pretty terrible to look at the population numbers this morning. Dayton is still losing people to the suburbs and other cities while not attracting enough new ones to fill the holes. Young professionals are important, I realize that. But too much emphasis placed on them. What about families? Let’s face it, there are [...]

L.A. Is So Last Century

You never really think about filmmakers making movies locally—but it happens and could start happening a lot more often. Dayton filmmakers are pushing to create tax incentives that would prod more filming in the great state of Ohio. This is just so weird, but cool. Check out the Cincinnati Business Courier’s story.

Be a Team Player and Get Hungry

What do you guys think of the marketing campaign the indy restaurants in Dayton are running? I’ve only seen what they’re doing on the DDN website. Is there anything else? I’m curious what effect this will have on business. I can’t judge myself because I have such a different perspective than the average diner. I’m [...]

Yellow Springs-Antioch=?

It’s pretty insane that Antioch College in Yellow Springs is closing because of financial problems. They plan on re-opening in 2012 which sounded pretty unrealistic to me but apparently they’ve done it before—from 1862-1865, 1881-1882 and 1919-1921. So it could happen. I’d just hate to see Yellow Springs lose its character. Antioch just seems like [...]

Dining At a Dayton Classic

Friday was such an on-off day, it would be perfect sun then killer rain. Luckily, by the time Erin and I made it up to Milano’s on Brown the sun was a’shining. The place was packed out but we were able to get a nice spot outside right away. And what a pleasant area! That [...]