good for middletown

thanks vet and vivian, with Laubach and Smith im hoping its a good start on  showing the people of middletown that the same old does not work and rid council of the click that has put  middletown in this mess..

Welcome bumper!!! I, too, was born here in 1948. I remember the bus stop down from G.C. Murphy on Broad St. Caught the Park Place bus next to what is now Beau Verre Studios many times when the green and white Ortman-Stewart buses were running. Remember the Meadowlawn, Crawford St, Lakeside, Upper Arlington buses too. You're correct! Some of Middletown's best days were during the decades of the 50's and 60's. Started to go down hill in the 70's IMO. When the Journal was run by locals, it was a decent newspaper. Then, as more non-Middletown residents took over positions within the Journal, it started to disintegrate as to interesting hometown news. Now, the news stories and the way they are written are a shadow of what they were back then. The talent has retired/ died and has not been replaced. To have the Journal like it was, it would have to be wrestled away from the Dayton Daily News influence. It has become pathetic since being taken over by the DDN. IMO, we on this site, are working on support for candidates like Laubach and Smith. We like the change in attitude and want to remove those in leadership roles that we view as having decimated this town. All of this is JMO of course. Again.... welcome aboard.