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The Dayton Daily News is reporting that anybody who wants to read the 36 page Soviet-style plan from the Downtown Dayton Partnership and comment on it in the next 11 days. Comment were open for 30 days, but this is just being reported today. This is designed to limit public comment so only government officials and representatives of big businesses have the time to comment. Here's my suggestion to turn Dayton around:

"The abominable experiment with big government in Dayton has produced a declining population for 50 years. Our terrible economy is just the latest symptom of long, government-driven decline. Forget central planning. It's always counter-productive. Abolish the Downtown Dayton Partnership. Stop stealing people's money to fund central planners who destroy wealth, and the people will use their own money to invest in or purchase from local businesses and create wealth that will enrich everybody in the region.

We need fewer bureaucrats and more producers. That means cutting government spending, abolishing bureaucracies wholesale, abolishing the income tax and lowering property taxes."

They'll probably ban my email.

Headline reads: "Bath salts traffickers plead guilty". Realistic as I am, if you had told me a couple of years ago this would be a headline today, I'd have laughed at you. If this headline doesn't make you realize our country is committing suicide by police state, I don't know what will.

Another power outage, this time in the worst neighborhood in Dayton with no wind and only light rain.

Apparently large, well-trained policemen can chase down 17 year old girls, pepper spray them, haul them back to the jail, strip them naked in private, then hose them down without fear of prosecution.