Stories by Ken McCall
Number of suburban poor doubles since turn of century
Poverty is growing fastest in the suburbs — both nationwide and in the Dayton region — and Fairborn and Xenia are among the hardest hit suburban cities in the area, according to new data released today. The two Greene County cities saw increases in their poverty rates of 11.3 percent ...
Black turnout surpassed whites in 2012 presidential election
Blacks voted in higher percentages than whites in November 2012, the first time that has occurred since the U.S. Census Bureau began tracking the race of voters, according to data released this week.A Dayton Daily News analysis found that the trend applied to both the nation and the state of ...
Sequester pain will hit local Head Start program
The across-the-board federal budget cuts known as sequestration officially began March 1, but the pain is just beginning to be felt by federal agencies and offices in southwestern Ohio. Of seven non-military federal agencies contacted for this story, all are planning for the budget cuts, but only three have taken ...
Ohio tax income up despite income tax cut
New census data provide more evidence that Ohio’s financial health is rebounding. The Buckeye State experienced big increases in sales taxes, personal income taxes, hospital-related taxes and corporation licenses in fiscal year 2012, the Dayton Daily News found. Ohio’s tax receipts grew by $905.9 million in fiscal year 2012, which ...
Taxpayers paid $1.3B to cover bad business loans
Lax federal oversight dating back years allowed lenders to repeatedly make bad loans to small businesses under a government program that has cost taxpayers $1.3 billion since 2000 on defaulted loans, a Dayton Daily News investigation found. Some borrowers in the Small Business Administration’s largest federally guaranteed loan program defaulted ...
Dayton region growing faster than state
New estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau show the recession dramatically slowed population change in the Dayton region and Ohio. That is good news for counties that have been losing population for decades, and good news for the region, which despite the slowdown is growing faster than the state, an ...
State could owe millions to local businesses
The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation knowingly created an inequitable system of setting premiums for workers’ comp insurance that resulted in overcharges to hundreds of thousands of Ohio businesses between 2001 and 2008, according to a judge’s ruling in a class-action lawsuit. A March 14 hearing in Cuyahoga County Common ...
Battle lines forming in minimum wage debate
When President Obama proposed hiking the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour last week, he began a policy fight over an issue with broad popular support but widespread business opposition. Supporters say the raise, the first since 2009, is overdue, is hardly lavish and will boost the economy. Opponents, ...
Ohio on verge of population loss
If Ohio wants to increase its tax base and make up for the political clout it lost in the latest reapportionment of congressional seats, new Census data show the state will need to make a dramatic turnaround. In fact, Ohio needs something to change if it isn’t going to join ...
Montgomery not becoming as Democratic as other big Ohio counties
Urban counties throughout Ohio continued a strong push toward the Democratic Party in the Nov. 6 presidential election, delivering the all-important state and its 18 electoral votes to President Barack Obama. But a Dayton Daily News examination of Montgomery County’s longer-term voting history shows that this county is not changing ...
Montgomery County mirrors state, U.S. vote
If Ohio was the center of the universe for presidential politics in 2012, Montgomery County was the bull’s-eye. According to the unofficial statewide election results, Montgomery County mirrored the state’s presidential vote percentages more closely than any of the other 87 counties. In the county: * 50.7 percent voted for ...
Montgomery County’s growth ranking 3rd in state
Reversing years of annual declines, Montgomery County grew by an estimated 2,449 people during the first 15 months following the 2010 Census, outpacing Warren and Butler counties, and ranking third in the state in population growth.The new population estimates, released Thursday and covering population changes from April 1, 2010, to ...
Suspect test scores found across Ohio schools
Steep spikes and drops on standardized test scores, a pattern that has indicated cheating in Atlanta and other cities across the nation, have occurred in hundreds of school districts and charter schools across Ohio in the past seven years, a Dayton Daily News analysis found.The analysis does not prove cheating ...
Occupy Dayton gets new digs
Occupy Dayton has relocated from downtown tents to a permanent office in East Dayton that has helped it become more focused on political initiatives.The Dayton branch of the nationwide group that was born out of protests of Wall Street excesses and corporate influence in politics has moved into three rooms ...
Hamilton woman killed in Miamisburg crash identified
The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office identified the woman killed in Friday night’s head-on crash in Miamisburg as Heidi Saylor, 42, of Hamilton. Saylor was the driver of a small car on Friday night that was headed east on Ohio 725 approaching Linden Avenue, when it crossed into the westbound lane ...
Driver charged in violent crash that killed two people
DAYTON — Prosecutors have charged a Florida driver with two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide for a violent car crash that killed two young people early Saturday morning. Robert Finkley, 29, of Florida remains in the Montgomery County Jail after plowing into the driver’s side of 1996 Dodge Neon stopped ...
Sunny weather forecast for holiday
The week is going to start out wet and chilly, but the weather is going to clear out for Thanksgiving, said WHIO-TV meteorologist Erica Collura.“Thanksgiving is going to be perfect,” Collura said. “We’re going to see sunny skies and temperatures in the low 50s.“Tuesday, though, is going to be miserable.”Sunday’s ...
Family, friends grieve for two killed in crash
Christina Jackson was stopped at the light at Wilmington Pike and Wayne Avenue early Saturday morning, and made a quick phone call to her brother Chad. The 20-year-old Carroll High School graduate was giving her friend, Corey Cooper, an 18-year-old senior at Carroll, a ride home from the Off the ...
Issue 1 would extend age limit for judges
Dayton Municipal Judge John Pickrel will be watching how Ohio Issue 1 does on next month’s ballot. His career plans depend on it.“It’s close to me,” Pickrel said, who at age 66 is in his last term under the current system. “I’ve got a little over three years left.”Currently, the ...
Local foreclosures at lowest in 5 years
Foreclosure activity in the Dayton area hit a five-year low in September, but real estate observers can’t say for sure if the housing crisis has turned a corner.The latest report by RealtyTrac Inc. showed that the number of properties in the four-county metropolitan statistical area involved in some phase of ...
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