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Poor Beavercreek politicians have to manage without their new income tax because voters rejected it.

NCAA tournament brought $11 million to Dayton.

I recently wrote that the region can't depend on Wright-Patt to be the primary driver or our economy. Now building permits are down in Greene County because of fears of defense cuts.

DDN writer also recognizes the hairpulling nature of the catfight between Mat Heck's judge wife and a female prosecutor.

"It is upsetting that two full grown women would behave so childishly, but it is not uncommon.
Women guzzle down this sort of chunky hater-aid far too often in our sometimes impolite society.
I don’t like her because she (insert juvenile reason here.)
You rarely catch men rolling around in this kind of non-sense. We all should be just a little embarrassed for these high profiled women."

Good thing this writer is a woman. A man would be crucified for saying that.

Leitzell's defeat considered historic. Final results. More results. Leitzell shut out in west Dayton where Whaley dominated.

"I think Nan reached out to all the key stakeholders and got the buy-in from all those folks, and she got a great result."

That sounds like an admission of vote buying.

"“We did a lot of work trying to get the vote out from our base,” Whaley said."

She only got 4965 votes for it, but it was enough.

Falling power lines.