The Roads Look Great!

After the that unbelievable bluster, wind and cold last night I can't believe how quickly the city and county have cleared the roads. They look great. Nice work gentlemen. Thanks.

Hilary vs. McCain

I think since most of the people who follow along here have an interest in politics I am wondering who thinks this will be the contest to watch for the fall. Personally, I am tired of Clintons and Bushs. We aren't some Eastern European country with legacy presidents. I hope someone new gets in but I think this is going to be the contest for president.

$60,000 fee for what?

What was the 60,000 spent on by the city for the annexation? I haven't quite figured that out yet? I I really would like to know more about Lindenwoods ability to finance this whole thing in this financial environment.

Nice apology by Ken G. in the paper this week. Front page news. I can't believe he wrote that to begin with. Anybody who would write that to begin with isn't thinking so what does that say about developing the ABA?

Monday, Jan. 14 City Annexation Mtg

I am pretty sure those of you who are interested know there is a meeting Monday night at Green Lake City Hall regarding the annexation of the Green Lake Conf. Center. I believe it is at 7:00. I have not seen it publicly posted anywhere so far. I don't think the city was required to do so more than 72 hours in advance yet you had to sign up for a "speaking" appointment by yesterday at noon. Very shady.

I was lucky enough to see an email sent by Ken asking employees not to patronize a certain local business because he had spoken out against the development. He then signed off of the email with "Merry Christmas". Very loving.

It was great seeing all the "sound off" letters in the Green Lake paper this week. There were quite a few letters to the editor in the Ripon paper also. If the Conference Center really wanted to work with the community on this they would be more transparent through this whole process instead of making it an "us vs. the world" situation. Ken and Co. are not handling this very well by trying to be as private as possible through this event.

Parise or Mirr?

It will be interesting to see what will happen with the mayors race. I was under the impression Mayor Parise wasn't going to run again. Wrongly I guess.

City Annex Mtg Monday

There is a city meeting regarding the annexation of the ABA development Monday night at City Hall. I believe this might be the city's final meeting for annexation. To speak at this meeting you must sign up. Which is something I had never heard of before. Public meeting agendas must be out 72 hours before the meeting. You had to sign up for the meeting Thursday by noon. If the agenda doesn't come out before Friday afternoon how do you sign up for it? Someone is trying to push this through. Any ideas about who that is?