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Dayton Daily News, January 26, 2007

Election 2004 The Swing States: Down To The Wire

School Board Makes Plea for Passage of 16-Mill Levy

Dayton school leaders made an emotional plea to voters Thursday while acknowledging they are asking a lot by placing a levy estimated at 16 mills on the May 8 ballot. After the board voted unanimously to back the levy, President Yvonne Isaacs said it is needed to maintain academic progress and because the district's situation is grave.

Overhaul 'to Change the Way People Use Rta'

DAYTON -- In the biggest routing change since becoming a countywide bus service in 1980, the Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority on Sunday will begin a new routing system that cuts average weekday service by 12 percent, modernizes and simplifies route networks and saves money. The changes cut daily bus trips downtown by 350. The most dramatic change will be seen at Third and Main streets, where RTA officials say daily transfers will be reduced by 68 percent.

Smoking Ban Enforcement Rules Drafted

COLUMBUS -- The Ohio Department of Health on Thursday filed draft enforcement rules for Ohio's new indoor smoking ban, triggering a 65- day process that could lead to full enforcement of the law as soon as April. Health department officials said they crafted the rules within the parameters of the law that voters approved 58-42 percent Nov. 7. They also took into account comments from nearly 4,000 Ohioans and members of the department's smoking ban advisory committee.

Local Soldier Killed in Iraq ; Vandalia Butler High School Graduate Came Home Days Before His Death to See His Newborn Son.

A Vandalia Butler High School graduate was killed Monday in Mosul, Iraq, eight days after becoming a father, the Department of Defense confirmed Thursday. Army Spc. Nicholas P. Brown, 24, died after an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle.

Corrections

In Tuesday's editions, Page A7, an article about a march protesting alleged illegal drug use in the Miami-Chapel neighborhood should have said that Dayton Mayor Rhine McLin was in Washington, D.C., attending the 2007 Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition Summit. In some editions of Thursday's Neighbors sections, in the Happenings on the Calendar pages, the date was omitted in the Singles Valentine Dance. The dance, sponsored by the Single Vine, is from 8 to 11 p.m., Feb. 10 at the IUE-CWA Loc...