By Tom

February 20, 2010 4:27 PM | Link to this

The part of this essay I found most intriguing was the city farms, the idea that a city could produce all of it’s needed crops within it’s own limits. While Dayton is surrounded by a sea of farmland, I could imagine many of the empty downtown lots being put to this use. Maybe it wouldn’t be a private farm, but a public farm where the crops go to local foodbanks? Just an idea, but on the whole an interesting piece.

By liberal wonderland

February 20, 2010 4:06 PM | Link to this

So according to this, the earthquake in Haiti is a blessing. Get people out of all those horrible buildings and houses! Instead of sending money, food, water, and other aid we should just be sending old cardboard boxes. Yeah. Total BS

By It's Great in Dayton!!!

February 20, 2010 9:30 AM | Link to this

Local “Slumming” - More reason to leave Dayton ASAP. DAYTON — Thieves are ransacking southeast Dayton, breaking into homes and cars at a pace that has police overwhelmed and asking for the community’s help. Reports of home burglaries there are up 44 percent this year and on pace to race past 2009’s five-year high of 732, according to Dayton Police Department data. Car break-ins have soared from 58 reported at this time last year to 139 through Sunday, Feb. 14 — a 140 percent increase.

By Bacon Transflat

February 20, 2010 9:09 AM | Link to this

Stewart Brand—Whole Earth Catalog, still alive it seems. VERY predictable middle/upper middle class caucasian idealism. I’m sure he thinks of himself as a futurist too. If he were running for the Miss Universe Pageant his signature statement would be: “I want to be a Vet- because I like working with children…”