Monday Blame “Sex in the City”
Tuesday’s installment in the Columbus Dispatch series about Ohio’s big cities is about Dayton, Ohio. On the brink: Dayton, City of invention seeks to dream up a future I moved to Columbus from Dayton… long ago. Or I say I moved from Dayton but I never lived in the city of Dayton. I lived in West Carrollton, a suburb of Dayton…. We bought a house in West Carrollton in the late 80’s for under 60K.
When my husband was transfered to Columbus in 1990 we bought a ten year old house that was in the City of Columbus, in the Dublin school district. It seemed like there were more choice in housing in Columbus. Bigger city or just plain different?
The moving van driver who moved us from West Carrollton Ohio to Columbus, Ohio 43235 was concerned that our house was not inside 270…. he said inside 270 was bad… outside 270 was good. Our house was inside 270, off Snouffer Rd. between Sawmill and Smokey Row. The moving van driver was relieved we were only a little bit inside 270, the north outer-belt.
In an audio comment(mp3) Ohio Suburbs in the Columbus Dispatch series Bruce Katz of the Brooking Institute commented our Ohio suburbs today are still 1950’s suburbs… we are still building 1950’s suburbs in 2007, in Ohio… Give it a listen to the experts solutions for Ohio’s big cities and their suburbs in this and the other audio comments online.
Teri Lussier a woman I know in the Dayton area wrote about the Columbus Dispatch series about big Ohio cities on Dayton OS Monday (and gave me a link… Thanks Teri!) “Solving Dayton’s problems: Whiners and wimps need not apply” Teri lives in Huber Heights Ohio, a suburb northeast of Dayton. Teri wrote a rant today, “It’s education, Stoopid” on Dayton OS Tuesday. I guess she’s disappointed the Columbus Dispatch didn’t publish the formula to make Dayton all better… Teri wrote:
“Gawd I hate these news stories that are not news. They talk to Nan Whaley and Rhine McLin and paint their doom and gloom picture and ohbloodyhell! Where’s the beef? Do they offer solutions? No. Oh wait, let me guess. That’s going to be in Sunday’s Edition.”
Psst Teri… The Columbus Dispatch is written for Columbus people… it may be old news to you but to us in Columbus it’s news… Yes we know about the Wright Brothers but a lot of the rest of the history, politics, economy of Dayton is new to most Columbusites.I’ve heard of Rhine McLin but could not have told you she was the Mayor of Dayton. Nan Whaley (City Commissioner) is a new character to me.
Maybe the Columbus Dispatch will wrap it up nicely in next Sunday’s issue and publish the solution for Dayton. Maybe some of the answers were in the two articles… last Sunday. Maybe the solution is on the Columbus Dispatch website in the audio comments in the Dispatch Special Report. Is Katz talking Dayton Ohio? No, he’s talking Ohio’s big cities including Dayton… and the whole ball of wax, the Ohio big cities and their suburbs.
The Columbus Dispatch wrote about Cleveland yesterday too… I’ll have to check to see if the Columbus newspaper reporters solved Clevelands problems for them… Nope, the Columbus Dispatch just told the Columbus readers about Cleveland…
I particularly enjoyed the part of the article where Nan Whaley described the Dayton “spirit” after reading the rant.
“Whaley quickly learned that Daytonians are no-nonsense folks, a mixture of Appalachians and minorities, sprinkled with a salt-of-the-earth pioneering spirit.
“There’s no sugarcoating anything in Dayton,” she said. “In this town, it’s ‘What have you done for me lately?’”
