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Busy Summer!

l3wis July 30, 2024 2Comments

Wish I was blogging more, but I have to be honest, the weather has been incredible and I have been riding like a madman! A friend called me the other day and asked what my total mileage on my bike was and I found it on the computer. This is 3.5 years of riding, all year long! I will admit, about 30% of that is total assist, so I don’t want to sound like Lance Armstrong.

And while I haven’t been putting pen to paper I have been researching and tracking down some interesting stories, here is a brief;

• A big rumor about a city hall coverup is about to poke it’s head, or at least the tip.

• Some peeps are privately pursuing former city councilor Marshall Selberg for ethics violations and him living out of his district.

• The school district is scrambling to try to figure out how to squash their mishandling of perjured election forms.

• I am pretty sure most if not ALL of the city councilors knew Matthew Paulson was investing in the Dakota Scout. More on that later.

• Got word today that MP, that we just mentioned above, got a fat grant from the state to educate immigrant refugees in, in-home daycare. Problem is, no loans were given out to actually start the businesses that are so desperately needed.

• Lastly, and this is a biggin’ (that’s an old blues term) I had a wonderful 3 hour convo with a city councilor this past weekend. We had never chatted over malt beverages before so it was nice. We talked about a lot of reform, and it was refreshing.

I will tell you, I don’t take much from these convos, because I have had so many, but I encourage regular folks to reach out, you never know, your relationship with a councilor or councilors may change your life, your neighborhood or even better this city!

UPDATE: Roberts Rules and Golf Contracts?

l3wis July 23, 2024 6Comments

UPDATE: After the deferral tonight at the city council meeting I asked a city councilor what happened. They responded;

‘It was a joint meeting and there was not a way for the county to be adjourned out. We had no choice last week but to defer to the joint as it was the only one scheduled at the time of deferral. We have to consider before July 27 or it has to be rebid.’

While this totally makes sense, one has to ask yourself how did the clerk allow them to defer to a NON city council meeting to begin with? And then they defer to a meeting on Thursday that seemed like a ‘shell’ meeting for two consent agenda items that have nothing to do with Wednesday, or Sunday.

Seems like the ship already sailed on this bitch.

After the mayor tells us how he is going to spend our tax dollars on pet projects, his wifey is likely brokering, they will conduct their shell meeting with lots of convo about golf cart sheds.

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As someone a few years back said to me randomly who used to do business with Paul’s web thingy,

“The guy is a little weird.”

That one always makes me laugh when I see him say idiotic things in public justifying one of his very bad decisions.

I keep telling chief scowler, open up government and all your stress will go away. But that would be too easy. Wouldn’t it?

Well, Mayor Poops Weirdo has out done his goofiness this week. He decided instead of following Robert’s Rules during meetings he would just ‘attach’ an entirely different meeting to the joint county meeting.

It even says on the item ‘doesn’t concern yah, county!’

I don’t know this Mr. Robert Rules, but have a lot of friends that do and they tell me the proper form would be to adjourn the joint meeting first and have a separate meeting to address the item.

But then how can we get no one to show up and bitch?

The item that needed to be shoved into another separate meeting was the $6.2 Million over budget contract for the new Elmwood Golf Course. Funny how these things get SHOVED into random meetings. FORE! weirdo

Sewage Apples!

l3wis July 22, 2024 2Comments

So I look forward to my special apple tree each year in Cherry Rock park. I noticed early in the summer the tree had a gob of apples growing. Most of the time I can get a 5 gallon pail and that’s about it, this year probably 3x that. So last week I noticed they were about ready to pick, and it was packed. I went home to get my trusty apple picker (thank you cameraman Bruce!) and picked a bag full. I sat them in the window of my dining room to ripen more and a couple of days later I started to cut them up to freeze. The first one was crisp and white but smelled weird. The second the same. The third one that was bigger, smelled like complete sewage. I threw all the apples out and realized that Cherry Rock park as all the parks along the river were under water during the flood and the tree sucked up all that sewage!

Disgusting!

1. Don’t eat any fruit this year from fruit trees in parks along the river.
2. The city needs to do a full environmental cleanup of all the parks along the river!

After the flood I did a ride thru the parks along the bike trail. It was nasty. I am wondering what kind of environmental mediation the city did?

Trump or Harris?

l3wis July 22, 2024 2Comments

Lots of cussing in this video, ironically most of it done by President Spaghettios

Happy 75th Birthday Mom!

l3wis July 19, 2024 2Comments

I want to wish my mom a great birthday today. She belongs to a women’s social club called the 49ers (they were all born in 1949) and she told me today she was number 3 to hit the big one this year and 4 more to go. Have Fun!