Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH) articles from April 2005

Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH) archives from April 2005

Make way for hybrids.
April 1, 2005... Byline: Jason Roberson Apr. 1--DAYTON -- The vehicles are cleaner at this year's Dayton Auto Show. Mirrorlike paint jobs have not changed, but tucked under the hoods are the most advanced emission-free hybrid engines ever to roll into...

Flight service controllers' union files suit.
April 1, 2005... Byline: Timothy R. Gaffney Apr. 1--A flight service controllers' union says older workers will be unfairly hurt by a government outsourcing plan that will also close more than 30 stations, including one in Dayton. Nine members of the...

Parks' parking fee put on hold.
April 1, 2005... Byline: William Hershey Apr. 1--COLUMBUS -- The state parks may stay free a little longer. The Taft administration's tradition-breaking plan to charge visitors to Ohio's 74 state parks a parking fee -- scheduled to start May 1 -- is on...

Franchise's condos for sale.
April 3, 2005... Byline: Jim Bohman Apr. 3--BELLBROOK -- Franchises sell everything from fried chicken and hamburgers to oil changes. A Columbus company also lets you purchase a mid-to-upscale condominium through franchised builders and the homes are hot...

Dayton-built SUV ready to roll.
April 3, 2005... Byline: Jason Roberson Apr. 3--MORAINE -- The Saab 9-7X sport utility vehicle could be one of the most locally appreciated vehicles at this year's Dayton Auto Show. When the Moraine Assembly Plant received orders to produce the 9-7X,...

Dayton Daily News, Ohio, Jim Dillon column.
April 3, 2005... Byline: Jim Dillon Apr. 3--So where does NCR Corp. go from here? On Tuesday, the Dayton-based technology company was dealt a surprising blow when president and chief executive Mark V. Hurd answered the siren song of a much larger and...

Hurd didn't have 'time to groom a successor'.
April 3, 2005... Byline: Jaclyn Giovis Apr. 3--DAYTON -- After Hewlett-Packard lured NCR's Mark Hurd to be its CEO, replacing the fired Carleton "Carly" Fiorina, speculation centered immediately on who would lead NCR. Analysts say they don't have a...

Dayton Daily News, Ohio, My job column.
April 3, 2005... Apr. 3--"For a lot of semiprofessional magicians, this gig starts out as a hobby. "I was nearly 40 years old when I got involved after taking my son, Scott, to the Dayton Magic Club. "Yes, there's a magic club. But it's kind of secret...

SOS Metals is making moves.
April 3, 2005... Byline: Jim Bebbington Apr. 3--DAYTON -- The days are long gone when the Dayton Press and Kuhns Brothers Foundry employed hundreds of people in Dayton's Miami Chapel neighborhood. Abandoned factories for those two companies blighted a...

MLK center coming to Dayton area.
April 3, 2005... Byline: Katherine Ullmer Apr. 3--DAYTON -- Dayton is to be the site of the nation's first and the world's second Martin Luther King Jr. Conflict Resolution Center, as part of a national anti-violence initiative by the Southern Christian...

Taft tours to sell tax reform.
April 4, 2005... Byline: William Hershey Apr. 4--FINDLAY -- Gov. Bob Taft was on the campaign trail here at the Whirlpool dishwasher plant last week. He isn't seeking re-election -- the Ohio Constitution bars him from seeking a third consecutive term...

Merchants hope to lure shoppers to downtown Troy, Ohio.
April 7, 2005... Byline: Ben Sutherly Apr. 7--TROY -- When Roy Baker opened BK Photo here in 1969, downtown Troy was alive on Friday nights. Then Friday night shopping fizzled as Troy retailing decentralized to the city's outskirts. By 1990, downtown...

ABX seeks listing on Nasdaq.
April 7, 2005... Byline: Timothy R. Gaffney Apr. 7--WILMINGTON -- ABX Air Inc. hopes to buck a local trend by having its shares traded on a major stock exchange instead of over the counter. The Wilmington-area based express package air carrier...

Citywide wireless network in works.
April 8, 2005... Byline: Timothy R. Gaffney Apr. 8--DAYTON -- Trees are budding, and so is Dayton's free wireless computer network. Roaming laptop computer users might pick up a signal now and then in the downtown area as HarborLink Network LLC tests...

Flagel Realty plans to build center in Beavercreek.
April 8, 2005... Byline: Jaclyn Giovis Apr. 8--DAYTON--Richard Flagel Realty Inc. has plans to build a 15,000-square-foot commercial center in Beavercreek. ToolsPrint this pageE-mail this pageMost popular Carpenter's Square will be along Indian...

Local developer may build homes, shopping center on old industrial site.
April 8, 2005... Byline: Jaclyn Giovis Apr. 8--DAYTON--Unified Development Group of Dayton is working to transform an old industrial site to a new retail project along Wilmington Pike, just north of Dorothy Lane. The company tore down the H&H Machine...

All Ohio school districts may join health insurance pool.
April 8, 2005... Byline: William Hershey Apr. 8--COLUMBUS -- House Republicans, in an effort to rein in health care costs, will use the state budget to make all 613 Ohio school districts part of the same health insurance pool, Speaker Jon Husted,...

Alien Technologies to open center in Springboro business park.
April 9, 2005... Byline: Jaclyn Giovis Apr. 9--Alien Technology Corp., which announced in October it would open a research and development center in the Miami Valley, will move into a building on Ohio 741 in Springboro's South Tech Business Park, City...

MacAulay Brown independent again.
April 10, 2005... Byline: Timothy R. Gaffney Apr. 10--BEAVERCREEK -- Call it the un-merger. Beavercreek-based defense contractor MacAulay Brown Inc. is an independent company again after being owned by a larger private company and then nearly gobbled up...

Dayton Daily News, Ohio, Jim Dillon column.
April 10, 2005... Byline: Jim Dillon Apr. 10--'SLEEPY' DAYTON A DISTURBING PUTDOWN: BusinessWeek dissed Dayton last week in an analysis and commentary on former NCR Corp. Chief Executive Mark Hurd's jump to Hewlett-Packard Co. "The Silicon Valley...

Gas-saving cars back in spotlight.
April 10, 2005... Byline: Jason Roberson Apr. 10--Paul Schaeffer, so proud of his vehicles' fuel efficiency, gets a kick out of hearing friends complain about high gas prices. Schaeffer, a retiree from Eaton who works part-time at Wright-Patterson Air...

Developer driving to create row of restaurants in Troy.
April 10, 2005... Apr. 10--TROY -- Singer Properties, the developer of the Miller Lane project at Interstate 75 in Butler Twp., is working to create a similar development at Troy Towne Park. "If we get the national restaurant tenants, the critical mass will...

Tax-refund loans are taxing poor who use them.
April 10, 2005... Byline: Mara Lee Apr. 10--It was a long wait, but well worth it for Krissondra Jennings. The single mother from Troy waited almost three hours to get into Piqua's only free tax prep site. But when she was done, she cried when she saw...

Wheelmaker takes steps to appeal to broader audience.
April 10, 2005... Byline: Stephanie Irwin Apr. 10--Wire Wheels have long been known as "killer rims," a double-meaning sprung from the Centerville-based company's 90-year-old reputation as a premium wire wheel maker with a handmade touch. It's a...

Dayton Daily News, Ohio, My Job column.
April 10, 2005... Byline: Stephanie Irwin Apr. 10--My Job: Sue Bowman, tax advisor "Taxes started as a hobby for me. I got interested after moving to Ohio from Tennessee. We didn't have state taxes there. So I didn't know they existed and did my taxes...

Troy panel backs subdivision plan.
April 12, 2005... Byline: Ben Sutherly Apr. 12--TROY -- The latest plan to build houses on 57 acres across from Concord Elementary pleased a City Council committee, which endorsed it Tuesday. "I can't see putting the brakes on something... that would...

310,000 may be at risk for ID theft.
April 13, 2005... Byline: Jason Roberson Apr. 13--MIAMI TWP., MONTGOMERY COUNTY -- An estimated 310,000 people -- more than nine times as many previously reported -- are at risk for identity theft following the breach of a LexisNexis database. Data...

Taft visits Xenia, Ohio, to boost tax-reform plan.
April 13, 2005... Byline: Ismail Turay Jr. Apr. 13--XENIA -- Ohio's economy is lagging behind the rest of the country's and the state's taxes are much higher than neighboring states, Gov. Bob Taft said while promoting his tax reform plan during a visit to a...

Death tax nears repeal.
April 14, 2005... Byline: Jason Roberson Apr. 14--CENTERVILLE -- Jenell Ross, who became vice president of Ross Motor Cars in Centerville after her father died eight years ago, became the poster child of Wednesday's successful effort by House Republicans to...

Vectren receives OK to raise gas rates.
April 14, 2005... Byline: Jim Dillon Apr. 14--DAYTON -- Ohio's utility regulators on Wednesday approved an average 4.3 percent residential rate increase for Vectren Energy Delivery of Ohio, the Dayton area's primary natural gas provider. The Public...

Tax time brings out creativity in returns.
April 14, 2005... Byline: Benjamin Kline Apr. 14--Don't call it cheating. Goodness, no! Call it creativity. Income tax season is the busiest time for accountants and the most creative time for some of their clients, as they try to navigate the narrow...

Systemax reports record sales in '04.
April 14, 2005... Byline: Ben Sutherly Apr. 14--BROWN TWP., MIAMI COUNTY -- Systemax executives on Wednesday reported record sales for 2004 and sought to reassure analysts and investors that the computer company is on the road to steady profits. For...

Ohio's metropolitan counties are experiencing a population migration.
April 15, 2005... Apr. 15--Ohio's large metropolitan counties are losing population in greater numbers than those of any other state, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. Six Ohio counties, including Montgomery and Hamilton, placed...

Benchrock loses developer, again.
April 15, 2005... Byline: Jaclyn Giovis Apr. 15--HUBER HEIGHTS -- The multimillion-dollar Benchrock golf course and residential community is without a developer -- again. ToolsPrint this pageE-mail this pageMost popular Top 5 stories Lighters seized...

Senate's turn to end the estate tax.
April 15, 2005... Byline: Jessica Werhman Apr. 15--WASHINGTON -- On the day after the House voted to eliminate the estate tax, a Centerville businesswoman spoke to a House subcommittee, detailing the harsh effects of the tax on her family after her father...

Changes to federal Medicaid law to cost state millions.
April 15, 2005... Byline: Laura A. Bischoff Apr. 15--COLUMBUS -- Careful what you wish for. Governors asked the federal government for help with the crushing costs of prescription drugs for the elderly on Medicaid, and the result was a new federal...

E-filing cuts down on lines to send taxes.
April 15, 2005... Byline: Benjamin Kline Apr. 15--DAYTON -- One tax tradition will soon be coming to a quiet end. The Dayton Post Office, 1111 E. Fifth St., has been the site of a traditional traffic jam as the deadline to file income tax returns...

Toxic PCBs not traced to Perma-Fix.
April 15, 2005... Byline: Jim Debrosse Apr. 15--JEFFERSON TWP., MONTGOMERY COUNTY -- Environmental safety officials say they have detected no evidence that any toxic PCBs arriving at Perma-Fix of Dayton escaped the plant's waste water treatment system. ...

Dayton Daily News, Ohio, Jim Dillon column.
April 17, 2005... Byline: Jim Dillon Apr. 17--The $58 billion acquisition of Bank One by JPMorgan Chase & Co. is officially complete, but there's still a lot of work to do, particularly here in the Miami Valley. That's according to William Daley,...

Hotel gets new life as apartment complex.
April 17, 2005... Byline: Jaclyn Giovis Apr. 17--DAYTON -- A Miami Valley development company has transformed the former Days Inn Hotel, located downtown at 330 W. First St., into a luxury high-rise apartment complex. RLR Investment LLC of Wilmington,...

Cassano's cooking up a comeback.
April 17, 2005... Byline: Stephanie Irwin Apr. 17--DAYTON -- The head of local pizza's first family, Cassano's Pizza King, is vying for a new title: The comeback king. After the one-two punch of a 1995 bankruptcy filing and the betrayal by his business...

Valley company builds replicas of Wilbur, Orville's planes.
April 17, 2005... Byline: Timothy R. Gaffney Apr. 17--DAYTON -- Below crowd 200 excited schoolchildren. Above and around spread the great white wings of early Wright brothers airplanes. In the middle, a man on a platform launches a whirling device...

CEO's small talk led to big deal.
April 17, 2005... Byline: Jason Roberson Apr. 17--MORAINE -- WinWholesale Inc. Chief Executive Rick Schwartz often would spot Lloyd Noland III, chief executive of Noland Co., at annual wholesaler trade shows. Small talk between the two wholesale industry...

Dayton Daily News, Ohio, My Job column.
April 17, 2005... Byline: Stephanie Irwin Apr. 17--My Job: Harold Jones, private investigator. "I've been a sworn police officer here for 25 years. In 1999, I helped crack an internet child pornography case that changed everything for me. My...

Antioch's new chief has seen the world.
April 18, 2005... Byline: Mark Fisher Apr. 18--YELLOW SPRINGS -- As an administrator at one of the world's largest foundations, Steven Lawry grappled with how to help South Africans recover from the ravages of apartheid, assisted Palestinians in shaping...

Dream project for Heights gets strong dose of reality.
April 18, 2005... Byline: Mehul Srivastava Apr. 18--HUBER HEIGHTS -- The fate of Huber Height's centerpiece development project -- a $23 million golf course ringed by expensive homes -- is now back in the hands of the Kendall Group, a developer that...

Hundreds protest landfill plan.
April 19, 2005... Byline: Ryan Justin Fox Apr. 19--TROTWOOD -- Hundreds of opponents of the proposed landfill in Trotwood protested outside the city council's meeting Monday night. Protesters heckled city officials by chanting "No landfills" as they...

Troy rezoning will allow building despite critics.
April 19, 2005... Byline: Ben Sutherly Apr. 19--TROY -- The City Council for a second time has rezoned 57 acres of farmland across from Concord Elementary School for housing, despite criticism from a handful of neighbors that the council isn't listening to...

Ohio's clout on way out.
April 21, 2005... Byline: Ken McCall Apr. 21--DAYTON -- Ohio will lose another two congressional seats after the next census and two more by 2030 if population projections released today by the U.S. Census Bureau are correct. The state will continue to...

Specialty retailer hopes to open initial store in July.
April 21, 2005... Byline: Stephanie Irwin Apr. 21--DAYTON -- A new Dayton-based specialty retailer led by executives from the former Elder-Beerman Stores Corp. plans to expand into a nationwide chain by 2010. Raven Rock Workwear will open the first of...

Reynolds reports earnings fell 14 percent.
April 23, 2005... Byline: Jason Roberson Apr. 23--DAYTON -- Reynolds & Reynolds Co., a technology provider for automotive dealers, said Thursday its second-quarter earnings fell 14 percent because of reorganization costs, but reported revenues higher than...

Secret investors fund casino effort; no money from tribe.
April 24, 2005... Apr. 24--DAYTON -- Investors hoping to bring Indian casinos to Ohio have hired lobbyists, lawyers and architects in a high-stakes bid to convince government officials and the public that more gambling would be good for the state. But the...

Dayton Daily News, Ohio, Jim Dillon column.
April 24, 2005... Byline: Jim Dillon Apr. 24--DAYTON'S ON THE ROAD TO GETTING BETTER: The city of Dayton is making two important improvements to its infrastructure. The question is, which one will I appreciate the most. The first improvement is a new...

City one of first to offer Internet service free.
April 24, 2005... Byline: Timothy R. Gaffney Apr. 24--DAYTON -- Bill Hill, Dayton's director of information and technology services, likes the irony of his project: One of the last few cities with trolley wires, Dayton is becoming one of the first to offer...

Warren County official wants to stem housing development.
April 25, 2005... Byline: Lawrence Budd Apr. 25--A Warren County commissioner wants to rezone about 130,000 acres of undeveloped Warren County real estate to limit home construction on lots of less than five acres. On Friday, Commissioner Mike Kilburn...

Grads' job outlook brighter.
April 25, 2005... Byline: Mark Fisher Apr. 25--Craig Stimmel hadn't really settled on a major four years ago when he dropped in on the University of Dayton's department of career services to ask where the best jobs might be for the class of 2005. Based in...

County grant sought to help cover demolition.
April 25, 2005... Byline: Jaclyn Giovis Apr. 25--DAYTON -- The demolition of a colorful West Carrollton fixture could help spark redevelopment at the city's gateway. Plans are in motion to tear down the vacant Woody's Market, a 70,000-square-foot...

Web site promotes Dayton region.
April 25, 2005... Byline: Jason Roberson Apr. 25--DAYTON -- Regional economic promoters have a new way of keeping themselves on the radars of companies, employees and students deciding whether to move here. Daytonregion.com, a collaboration of 20...

Dayton airport traffic continues descent.
April 27, 2005... Byline: Timothy R. Gaffney Apr. 27--DAYTON -- Passenger traffic at Dayton International Airport dropped 12.8 percent in March compared with a year ago, continuing a slide that began in December. The year-to-date decline was 11.8...

Coroner's crime lab wins OK on DNA unit.
April 27, 2005... Byline: Lynn Hulsey Apr. 27--DAYTON -- The Montgomery County Coroner's crime laboratory moved closer Tuesday to robotic analysis of DNA after county commissioners approved the purchase of a $219,333 DNA workstation. The equipment,...

Growth lawsuits piling up in Warren.
April 27, 2005... Byline: Lawrence Budd Apr. 27--LEBANON -- Two families and the developer planning to turn their farms into a housing subdivision filed their second lawsuit this year against Warren County officials, who are trying to slow the pace of...

Boost urged in minimum wage.
April 27, 2005... Byline: Mandy Zatynski Apr. 27--COLUMBUS -- A state senator repeatedly called Ohio's minimum wage "unconscionable" on Wednesday as she urged lawmakers to support her proposal to increase the wage to $7.15 per hour by January 2007. The...

Farm sues family claiming boar didn't live up to GreatXpectations.
April 29, 2005... Apr. 29--TROY -- An Elizabeth Twp. farm is suing a Missouri family claiming a Yorkshire boar named GreatXpectations hasn't lived up to its name. The boar's sellers claim the allegations are legal hogwash. Lean Value Sires Inc. of...

State auditor scrutinizes casino investment group.
April 29, 2005... Byline: Ben Sutherly Apr. 29--LIMA -- A Lima-based corporation that claims to have raised $300,000 to help establish Indian casinos statewide has come under the state auditor's scrutiny. Auditor Betty Montgomery, a gambling opponent...

Study: Taft plan will create jobs.
April 29, 2005... Byline: William Hershey Apr. 29--COLUMBUS -- Gov. Bob Taft's plan to overhaul the state's tax system would lead to the creation of an additional 43,250 jobs and a $2.5 billion boost in the gross state product by 2010, according to a report...

Mall revamps moving forward.
April 29, 2005... Byline: Jaclyn Giovis Apr. 29--DAYTON -- Plans to renovate the Dayton Mall and The Mall at Fairfield Commons are moving forward, according to the malls' owner. Glimcher Realty Trust, a public real estate investment trust headquartered...

WYSO soon should have chief.
April 29, 2005... Byline: Bob Batz Apr. 29--YELLOW SPRINGS -- Antioch University is close to hiring a new general manager for WYSO-FM (91.3), the school's new vice chancellor said this week. The field of candidates to replace Steve Spencer, who resigned...

Real estate group withdraws plan.
April 29, 2005... Byline: Katherine Ullmer Apr. 29--SUGARCREEK TWP., GREENE COUNTY -- Bear Creek Capital, the Cincinnati real estate group planning to develop the 229-acre Dille property at Feedwire Road and Wilmington Pike, has withdrawn its March...

DPL execs say sale is close.
April 29, 2005... Byline: Tom Beyerlein Apr. 29--DAYTON -- Top DPL Inc. executives Thursday told shareholders that the sale of the company's huge investment portfolio is nearing completion and the proceeds will be used for debt reduction, investments in the...

Contractor may get early start on plant.
April 29, 2005... Byline: Nancy Bowman Apr. 29--TIPP CITY -- Although the Northern Area Water Authority board won't know for nearly a month if it will get a loan to build a water treatment plant, the low bidder said it is willing to take a chance and begin...

Woman's Club opens its doors.
April 29, 2005... Byline: Joanne Huist Smith Apr. 29--DAYTON -- She's one of Dayton's grandest dames, and on Sunday, you're invited to visit. The Dayton Woman's Club at 225 N. Ludlow St. has been a private haven for members and their guests since 1916....