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...resigned to a little pain, but all are praying they can avoid a full-blown root canal. "Basically, I'm preparing to have to dig deeper into my pockets in the near future," says Sherwin Eisman, the Republican mayor of middle-class Huber Heights (pop. 40,000), near Dayton. He fears that additional federal taxes will inspire local voters to reject any attempts to raise local levies, including a May ballot proposal to raise the city income tax from 1% to 1.25% for additional fire and police services. He says, "People tell me that they are sick and tired...
...principal donor is John W. Berry, 70, of Dayton, Ohio. Berry, a 1944 Dartmouth graduate, has committed to giving $25 million, the largest individual donation in Dartmouth's history...
Straddling the intersection between the Great Miami, the Mad and the Stillwater rivers, Dayton is the kind of town where locals still thank travelers for visiting and really mean it. "We're so white bread," chuckles Sidlo, referring to the regional temperament rather than skin color. Though modest, residents are still demonstrably jealous of the fact that Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, gets all the glory for the first Wright brothers flight, even though the inventors lived and worked in Dayton. "Hell, we deserve the credit," says Thomas Heine, president of the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce. But he admits that...
...public schools started court-ordered busing. The county's black population has held steady at about 18%, but Montgomery County remains so segregated that activists hold annual rallies at the "peace bridge" that spans the Great Miami River, which runs like a racial moat between very black West Dayton and very white East Dayton. Where blacks and whites do coexist, it's often a case of what Dayton Mayor Richard Dixon calls "temporary integration" -- meaning that whites simply haven't had time to pack their bags...
...many of these voters seem to have given up on Bush, they aren't all sold on Clinton. In closely fought Montgomery County, Ohio, an area that incorporates Dayton, Bush is in a statistical dead heat with Clinton and would win in a three-way contest with Texas industrialist H. Ross Perot, who remains on the ballot in Ohio. When voters who were leaning toward Bush are added to the mix, the President wins the county by 7 points. Such support for the incumbent ensures that Ohio will be one of the closest contests this fall. The Buckeye State, admits...