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Should Government Employees be Involved in Politics?

Should Government Employees be Involved in Politics?

by Alexander Sharp | Jan 8, 2021 | Commentary, News & Investigations

Between the national news of angry mobs in D.C. and the local news that Nan Whaley will not run for reelection, an interesting piece in the Dayton Daily News may have escaped your attention. Mohamed Al-Hamdani, Dayton Public School Board President and member of the...
Heck Uses Bonuses to Circumvent Ohio Administrative Code

Heck Uses Bonuses to Circumvent Ohio Administrative Code

by Alexander Sharp | Jan 5, 2021 | Investigative Reporting, News & Investigations

In our coverage of the bonus scandal from the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office, we first looked at how Mat Heck has provided bonuses averaging $8,851.35 to employees in 2020. Then we looked at Heck’s history of graft and previous reports that called him out for...
Decades of Graft by Mat Heck

Decades of Graft by Mat Heck

by Alexander Sharp | Dec 30, 2020 | Investigative Reporting, News & Investigations

Dayton City Manager Shelley Dickstein commenting on executive bonuses for the Dayton Development Coalition: Mar 3, 2014 To pay somebody 25 percent of their salary just because they did the work they were supposed to be doing for their salary never seems to line up...
Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office Siphons Budget Surpluses for Large Employee Bonuses

Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office Siphons Budget Surpluses for Large Employee Bonuses

by Alexander Sharp | Dec 28, 2020 | Investigative Reporting, News & Investigations

According to employee bonus letters acquired by Reconstructing Dayton through a public records request, Montgomery County employees receive large bonuses at the end of each year with money that would otherwise go back to the county. These are not normal sized bonuses....
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by Alexander Sharp | Dec 18, 2020 | Reconstructing Dayton

Next week is Christmas and it will be an odd one. Gatherings will be smaller, less festive, and there won’t be as many gifts. If you were told a year ago that a pandemic would cripple our economy and shut down businesses, schools, and services, would you believe...
Culture of Corruption? Try Paying Officials More.

Culture of Corruption? Try Paying Officials More.

by Alexander Sharp | Dec 2, 2020 | Commentary, News & Investigations

Recently, Cincinnati councilman P.G. Sittenfeld was arrested for soliciting and accepting bribes. He is the third Cincinnati council member to be arrested for corruption this year, and the FBI has declared Cincinnati, like Dayton, has a “culture of...
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