An Interview with Baxter Stapleton
Baxter Stapleton is running as a Democrat for Ohio’s 10th Congressional District. In the primary he will oppose Kirk Benjamin, David Esrati, and Jeff Hardenbrook. Baxter is decades younger than his three opponents and he believes that his youth will be an asset...
An Interview with Kirk Benjamin
Kirk Benjamin is currently running as a Democrat for Ohio’s 10th Congressional District. He was kind enough to sit down with Reconstructing Dayton to tell us about himself and his platform. Benjamin originally hails from Dayton and spent much of his life working...
How to Break Gerrymandering
Map Disease Maps have been in the news lately. Cartography has not become a new Tik-Tok trend, nor has it supplanted baking bread as the latest pandemic activity. Cartography is big news because it’s once again that time when our state legislature draws the very...
Ohio County Populations, 2020 Census
Ohio County Populations, 2020 Census wdt_ID County Population 1 Adams 27,477 2 Allen 102,206 3 Ashland 52,447 4 Astabula 97,574 5 Athens 62,431 6 Auglaize 46,422 7 Belmont 66,497 8 Brown 43,676 9 Butler 390,357 10 Carroll 26,721 11 Champaign 38,714 12 Clark 136,001 13...
Mysterious Meetings for Mysterious Contracts
Note: We apologize for the lack of content recently. We have been quite busy behind the scenes doing research and advocating for public policy. If you would like to receive updates when we publish new content please subscribe at the bottom of the page. The Meeting...
Ohio Elections Subvert the Will of the People
On Tuesday, Ohio held a couple of special elections that have attracted quite a bit of national interest. Progressive heartthrob Nina Turner lost to Shontel Brown in a primary for the 11th Congressional District and Trump-backed conservative Mike Carey emerged...
Dayton Together Research Archive
From 2009–2016, several community leaders worked to bring regionalism to the Dayton area to make the region more economically competitve and to help make development more strategic. The tactic they settled on was a city-county merger that would also merge some major...
Shenise Turner-Sloss 2021 Pre-Primary Campaign Contributions/Expenditures
Shenise Turner-Sloss is running for the Dayton City Commission. This is her third time running after finishing 4th in 2017 and 3rd in 2019. In the 2021 primary she finished in 1st place and appears to have built up a strong grassroots coalition. Items of note: This is...
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