This was not an investigatory story. (Hurry. It won’t be free long.)
Nothing about how the county was looking for a place not near a residential neighborhood…on cheap land…without brick walls and ended up near a residential neighborhood on one of the busiest highways in McHenry County with brick walls.
After Blake Hobson gave Ken Koehler the credit for the new facility, someone named “OakLeaf” wrote the following:
OakLeaf wrote on January 25, 2010 12:44 p.m.
“I think the county could have found a much less expensive place. This is from mchenrycountyblog The folks running for re-election (or, in the case of one seeking to return to the board) who voted to impose the cat tax in order to help pay for new animal control shelter on Route 14 in Crystal Lake follow:
- Ken Koehler, County Board Chairman, Crystal Lake, District 2
- John Jung of Woodstock, District 5
- Tina Hill of Woodstock, District 5
- Anna May Miller of Cary, District 1
- Sandra Salgado of McHenry, District 4
- Barbara Wheeler of Crystal Lake, District 3″
Keely Cat doesn't have to hide from the McHenry County Cat Tax Collector anymore.
It was a coincidence that I wrote a story about the votes on the McHenry County Republican Cat Tax the same day the NW Herald did a two-year retrospective.
And, the Herald didn’t point out the role its approval played in the defeat of Woodstock Republican County Board member Perry Moy by Lake in the Hills Democrat Jim Kennedy.
There are certainly different roles played by the NW Herald and McHenry County Blog.
And, only McHenry County Blog features the best know cat in McHenry County:
The one, the only
Keely Cat