McHenry County Blog

I met Jim Gitz when he was a State Senator aligned with Governor Dan Walker.

He was part of a group called “the Crazy Eight.”

They were independent Democrats at the time.

Gitz got defeated by Harlan Rigney in 1982 and went into the investment banking business, if memory serves me correctly.  Seems he earned a law degree, too.

He served as Freeport Mayor from 1997 to 2005, when he was replaced by George Gaulrapp,

But Gitz hasn’t shaken the political bug.

He showed up on the ballot in Freeport running against  Mayor Gaulrapp.  Gaulrapp might be remembered by some as the Demcoratic Party candidate for Congress against Don Manzullo.  Manzullo won.

And Gitz won.

He has an April opponent named Jon Staben.  He got 258 votes compared to Gitz’ 1,233.

I asked Freeport founder Tutty Baker if Gitz had opponents and got this reply:

“Yes, he has two and both may have a chance, he only beat Gaulrapp by about 200 votes and about 500 people voted in the other primary (Freeport uses the “Citizens” and “Peoples” Parties for primary elections).

“Gitz and Gaulrapp were in the Citizens Party where more than 2000 people voted.

“Because the Peoples Party ticket had two newcomers and novice politicians, I have to believe that the 500 people that voted that ticket want something new and Gitz is not new. Jon Staben (retired Newell executive) won the Peoples Party and will face Gitz and independent candidate Kathy Knodle in April.

“It could be wild.”

The founder of Freeport, Illinois, Tutty Baker, who died in 1855, is the pseudonym of a Stephenson County blogger. He calls his publication the Stephenson Blumdoggle.

The blog seems to have been inspired by Stephenson County’s Board Chairman, whose last name is Blum.

John Blum and his county board seem to have put the taxpayers in debt to build an industrial park that has not worked out too well.

Hence, the play on the word “boondoggle,”

Imagine my surprise when I discovered an article about an article about the McHenry County Finance Committee that ran on McHenry County Blog yesterday.

Tutty’s article is entitled,

A Freeport Connection in McHenry County

I was finished a good novel–”Julian Comstock, A Story of 22nd Century America” by Robert Charles Wilson–last night, so didn’t make it to the County’s Administrative Building for the Finance Committee meeting.

But I am interested if the Committee members recommended selling Z Financial two lots in the Village of Wonder Lake with a market value, according to the assessor last year, of over $30,000 for $1,300.

While it probably has no connection, Z Financial gave three multi-thousand dollar contributions to County Treasurer Bill LeFew a couple of years ago.

Tutty suggests that his readers might be interested in looking at the Illinois State Board of Elections pages that show

• contributions from Z Financial and
• contributions from John Zajicek, its owner.

Zajicek is identified as an “investor” in reports made to the state.

I note the Bill LeFew is not the only County Treasurer to whom the company and the man have made contributions.

Looking at the McHenry County Board’s agenda and committee packet for Tuesday’s Finance Committee meeting, I saw that a Freeport company called Z Financial Illinois G Properties, LLC, is going to be allowed to purchase two parcels for $1,300.

The County seems to be selling property county government has obtained because people didn’t pay their taxes on it.

Not much money involved, but, on a whim, I decided to take a look at campaign contributions.

So, into the Illinois State Board of Elections contributions’ search engine I typed “Z Financial.”

Here’s what popped up:

• $2,500 (3rd largest contribution made by the firm) – Bill LeFew 10/24/6
• $2,000 (tie for 4th largest contribution made by the firm) – Bill LeFew 11/13/4
• $2,000 (tie for 4th largest contribution made by the firm) – Bill LeFew 10/24/8

Nothing listed more recently.

No indication of any connection of the contributions over two years ago to anything happening this year, of course.

I decided to see what Z Financial wanted to purchase for $1,300, so I looked up the Property Index Numbers in the Treasurer’s data base. (Boy, do I wish I had that capability when I was County Treasurer from 1977-70. I tried to use note cards to keep up with addresses and couldn’t do it. Just too many changes.)

PIN numbers 09 06 281 015 and 016 are each ssessed (after the state multiplier) at $6,188. Total market value, according to the assessor, would be over $37,000 (three times the assessed value). From Google’s information, I can’t tell if it is two empty lots, but the parcels are adjacent, so a house probably could be built on them, if they are empty.

Seems they might be worth more than $1,300 in resolution in the County Board’s Finance Committee’s packet.

“While Democrats say Teachers ‘Have Kept Their Part of the Deal?’“

is the title of an April 5, 2011, article by former Huntley School District 158 Board member Larry Snow.  (The quote was in the Chicago Tribune Marcy 31, 2011.  It is from Executive Director Dick Ingram of Teachers’ Retirement System.)

The article was published in “The Champion” with this teaser:

“82,981 of 132,502 Illinois Teachers Pay Nothing or Little into Their Pensions“

That’s 63% of all teachers in Illinois.

The State Journal-Register is reporting that State Rep. Kevin McCarthy (D-Orland Park) is promoting a bill where state and local governments would all pay six percent of payroll toward employee pensions.

In a revealing sentence in reporter Chris Wetterich’s article, he writes,

“What’s unclear is how much more employees themselves would have to pay.“

Because no one has done the research except, I believe, the Illinois Education Association and Snow, how much extra teachers would have to pay if their so-called contribution rate was raised from 9.4% to 13.77% is a really good question.

While not covering every school district in Illinois, Snow did research the teachers’ contracts for all of the large school districts (by law all are supposed to be on the internet) in order to find out how much teachers pay in order to get a “full 75 percent pension after working only 27 years.” He points out, “Most adults work for 27 years before they turn age 50.”

As way of background, Snow notes that teachers are not in the Social Security System and, therefore, are not forced to pay Social Security taxes.

“Ordinary workers get hit with a 6.2 percent deduction for Social Security,” Snow writes. “It’s a deduction they have to pay federal and state income taxes on.

“Democrats gave teachers a huge loophole of not paying income taxes on any of their pension deductions” he continues. “This enormous no-tax handout to teachers amounts to billions of dollars each year.”

Snow’s research leads him to this conclusion:

“Over 51,000 of the total 132,502 teachers in Illinois contribute nothing from their K-12 paychecks into their pensions. Illinois law says it is to be 9.4 percent.

“About an additional 32,000 teachers pay little into their pensions. It is 1.81 percent to be precise for these 31,956 teachers.“

How many teachers pay not a dime toward their retirement?

51,025 teachers in 186 school districts pay nothing for retirement benefits.

They “don’t pay a penny into the 9.4 percent called out by Illinois law.

“There are a total of 868 districts in Illinois.

“The pay-zero teachers listed are 39 percent of all teachers in Illinois,” Snow reveals.

No agency in state government seems to keep track of this information.

Not the Downstate Teachers Retirement Fund, which boldly and incorrectly claims,

“Active TRS members are required to contribute 9.4 percent of their creditable earnings each year…”

The State Board of Education doesn’t keep track either.

My guess is that only the Illinois Education Association has a matrix showing what school districts have given what benefits in contract negotiations.

Snow discovered this about Lockport:

“…on page 14 of the Lockport Township HS 205 teachers contract it reads:

1. The Board will pay the current level of retirement contribution to the Teachers Retirement System of Illinois.”
2. It is expressly understood that figures appearing on this salary schedule include a sum equal to the current level of TRS contribution of the base salary of each Teacher which is, in fact, payable to the Teachers’ Retirement System on the Teacher’s behalf.”

“The ISBE report shows this board paying nothing. A Democrat bureaucracy doesn’t check the teachers contracts to see if what is reported, matches what’s in writing.”

And, if legislation is passed requiring 4.37 percentage points more, how long do you think it will take Lockport taxpayers to pick up the difference?

Given that local teachers’ unions pretty much control school boards wherever they are elected (read everywhere but Chicago), my guess is will be on the top of the collective bargaining list.

Do you wonder if Rep. McCarthy knows that?

Is his proposal just a setting up local taxpayers for an even bigger fall?

Five years from now will 39% of teachers still be paying nothing for their pensions?

Even better for teachers is that this pension payment ups their pension payments.

Take a look at the chart below.  Chances are your school district is on it.

Chart of Pension Contributions by 82,981 District Teachers of 132,502 Total Illinois K-12 Teachers

Name of District	No. of Teachers	Percent of Pension Contributed by Teachers
Thornton Twp 205	428	Zero
Proviso 209	281	Zero
Waukegan 60	1,098	Zero
Morton 201	455	Zero
Kankakee 111	348	Zero
Joliet 204	340	Zero
Round Lake 116	387	Zero
Rockford	1,843	Zero
Decatur 61	454	Zero
Crete Monee	340	Zero
Danville 118	382	Zero
Valley View 365	1,068	Zero
Aurora West 129	706	Zero
East Peoria 309	69	Zero
Galesburg	281	Zero
Bremen 228	313	Zero
Freeport	317	Zero
Leyden 212	219	Zero
Elgin U-46	2,332	Zero
Rock Island	388	Zero
Mattoon	225	Zero
Collinsville	394	Zero
Massac 1	143	Zero
Sterling	219	Zero
Belvidere	531	Zero
Quincy	436	Zero
Dixon	179	Zero
West Chicago	248	Zero
Cook County 130	289	Zero
Cicero 99	738	Zero
Joliet 86	617	Zero
Harvey 152	163	Zero
Crystal Lake 155	412	Zero
Crystal Lake 47	564	Zero
Wheeling 21	489	Zero
Champaign 4	717	Zero
United CUSD 304	68	Zero
Riverdale 100	76	Zero
Reed Custer 255	114	Zero
Wilmington 209U	84	Zero
United Township 30	90	Zero
Summit Hill 161	213	Zero
Plainfield	1,695	Zero
Schiller Park 81	98	Zero
Dolton 149	176	Zero
Township 211 Palatine	799	Zero
Ball Chatham 5	248	Zero
Taylorville 3	152	Zero
Williamsville 15	81	Zero
Harrisburg 3	130	Zero
Belleville 201	281	Zero
Dupo 196	76	Zero
O’Fallon 203	145	Zero
O’Fallon 90	207	Zero
Rochester 3A	142	Zero
Pekin 108	248	Zero
Morton 709	175	Zero
New Lenox 122	287	Zero
Frankfort 157	158	Zero
Marion 2	219	Zero
Carterville 5	110	Zero
Kinnikinnick 131	122	Zero
Tolono 7	116	Zero
Mahomet-Seymour 3	161	Zero
Champaign 4	717	Zero
Urbana	346	Zero
Charleston 1	180	Zero
Park Ridge 64	319	Zero
Evanston 202	222	Zero
Maine HSD 207	508	Zero
Arlington Heights 214	753	Zero
Niles 219	350	Zero
Berkeley 87	165	Zero
Berwyn South	263	Zero
Lyons 204	239	Zero
Lemont 113	144	Zero
Palatine 15	713	Zero
Schaumburg 54	1,003	Zero
Oak Lawn 123	203	Zero
Oak Lawn 229	114	Zero
CHSD 230 Orland Park	519	Zero
Argo 217	111	Zero
Homewood 233	174	Zero
Genoa 424	137	Zero
Sycamore 427	231	Zero
Dekalb 428	362	Zero
Lombard 44	216	Zero
Downers Grove 58	277	Zero
Hinsdale 86	296	Zero
Elmhurst 205	538	Zero
Naperville 203	1,063	Zero
Effingham 40	176	Zero
Canton Union 66	175	Zero
Morris 54	61	Zero
Morris 101	50	Zero
Coal City 1	138	Zero
Jersey 100	164	Zero
Central CUSD 301	224	Zero
Kaneland 302	275	Zero
St. Charles 303	880	Zero
Cahokia	298	0.4
Chicago Public Schools	23,219	2
Peoria 150	988	0.4
Springfield	1,105	0.4
Moline 40	461	0.4
Harvard	149	0.87
Dolton 148	236	1.4
Belleville 118	228	0.4
Pekin 303	125	0.4
Hononegah 207	118	0.4
Arlington Heights 59	444	3
Leyden 212	219	0.4
Summit 104	103	0.4
Palos 118	130	0.4
CHSD 219 Orland Park	519	0.4
Bensenville 2	145	1.4
DuPage 88	266	0.4
CHSD 94	122	0.9
CUSD 300	1,189	4.4
Hawthorn 73	253	1.4
Lake Forest 115	132	0.4
Wauconda 118	273	0.4
Johnsburg 12	158	0.4
Cary 26	192	4.9
Woodstock 200	385	1.4
Keeneyville 20	107	0.4
Winnebago 323	117	0.4
LaSalle-Peru Twp. 120	88	0.7
Prairie-Hills 144	187	0.4
Geneva 304	367	Zero
Herscher 2	126	Zero
Manteno 5	160	Zero
Bourbonnais 53	160	Zero
Bradley 61	103	Zero
Bradley Bourbonnais 307	114	Zero
Momence 1	88	Zero
Yorkville 115	329	Zero
Plano 88	154	Zero
Oswego 308	827	Zero
Streator 44	132	Zero
Ottawa 141	140	Zero
Ottawa 140	102	Zero
Glenview 34	343	Zero
Zion 6	177	Zero
Grayslake 46	266	Zero
Elmwood Park 401	181	Zero
Libertyville 70	159	Zero
North Shore 112	374	Zero
HSD 113 Highland Park	249	Zero
Grant 124	91	Zero
Zion-Benton 126	156	Zero
Evanston 65	547	Zero
Grayslake 127	187	Zero
Meridian 15	64	Zero
Mt. Zion 3	133	Zero
Edwardsville 7	480	Zero
Alton 11	467	Zero
Macomb 185	130	Zero
McHenry 15	282	Zero
McHenry 156	158	Zero
Nippersink 2	92	Zero
Columbia 4	111	Zero
Waterloo 5	166	Zero
Hillsboro 3	114	Zero
Meridian 223	113	Zero
Illinois Valley Central 321	139	Zero
Carbondale 165	76	Zero
Carbondale 95	105	Zero
Riverton 14	85	Zero
Auburn 10	90	Zero
Pawnee 11	47	Zero
Panhandle 2	35	Zero
Sullivan 300	75	Zero
Centralia 135	93	Zero
Litchfield 12	83	Zero
Harlem 122	505	Zero
Granite City 9	617	Zero
Princeton 115	86	Zero
Princeton 500	43	Zero
Bond County 2	120	Zero
Duquoin CUSD 300	101	Zero
Rocton 140	102	Zero
Rochelle Twp. HSD 212	71	Zero
Rochelle CCSD 231	131	Zero
Byron 226	127	Zero
Oregon 220	104	Zero
Farmington Central 265	85	Zero
Porta 202	75	Zero
River Bend 2	71	Zero
Red Bud 132	73	Zero
Sparta 140	105	Zero
Southwestern 9	107	Zero
Staunton 6	87	Zero
Gillespie 7	81	Zero
Hamilton County 10	83	Zero
Midwest Central 191	85	Zero
Tuscola 301	86	Zero
West Carroll 314	99	Zero
Oakwood 76	64	Zero
Hoopeston 11	94	Zero
Westville 2	80	Zero
Beardstown 15	98	Zero
El Paso-Gridley 11	99	Zero
Murphysboro 186	137	Zero
Monticello 25	111	Zero
Paris-Union 95	74	Zero
Mt. Vernon Twp. 210	80	Zero
Mt. Vernon 80	109	Zero
Jasper County 1	101	Zero
Steger 194	128	Zero
Calumet City 155	77	Zero
North Boone 200	116	Zero
CCSD 93 Carol Stream	294	Zero
East Maine SD 63	254	Zero
Lockport Township HS 205	205	Zero
Above Teachers Total	82,981

 

Never heard of Lena?

It’s the start of scenic Lena-Galena Road to, well, Galena.

It’s in Stephenson County.

What used to be called the Freeport Journal-Standard reported on the affair attended by 150 people.

The sheriff’s race features a Republican incumbent (David Snyders) and an Independent challenger (Tim Clay). Sort of like the 22nd Judicial District between Associate Judge Gordon Graham and Independent Sally Wiggins.

The challenger pledged not to enforce the seat belt law, claiming it violated the U.S. Constitution.

The next candidates up were those running for Congress in the 16th District, which includes much of McHenry County.

Democrat Freeport Mayor George Gaulrapp is challenging long-time incumbent Don Manzullo.

“Gaulrapp and Manzullo were both in favor of extending President George W. Bush’s tax cuts, and were against Cap and Trade legislation that would limit carbon emissions into the atmosphere. Also, they both supported the creation of a border fence and making English the official language of America,” the article reports.

It then points out some differences between the incumbent and the Barack Obama Democratic National Convention Alternate Delegate.

Manzullo wants to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education. Gaulrapp thinks national leadership is needed.

Should United Nations laws supersede U.S. Law?

Both agreed they shouldn’t, but Manzullo went further.

“We need to get out of the United Nations, it’s a worthless organization, let’s get out of it,” the article quotes Manzullo.

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I have heard of no candidates’ nights scheduled in McHenry County for the fall election. During the spring Patriots United sponsored two, one for the Republican congressional primary candidates and another for county board candidates. The McHenry County Young Republicans also sponsored one.

Word of the speaker at next Tuesday’s McHenry County Democratic Party Central Committee meeting has arrived. It’s the party’s challenger to incumbent Congressman Don Manzullo, George Gaulrapp.

The party press release, which points out this is the third time in a row that Manzullo has faced off against a mayor, follows:

CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE GAULRAPP TO SPEAK TO McHENRY DEMS

CRYSTAL LAKE—Freeport Mayor George Gaulrapp will be a special guest at the Democratic Party of McHenry County meeting at 7 PM on Wednesday, November 18, at the McHenry County Farm Bureau Building, 1102 McConnell Road in Woodstock. Gaulrapp has announced his candidacy for Congress in the 16th District, a seat now held by Republican Don Manzullo.

Gaulrapp is in his second term as mayor of the western Illinois city, a manufacturing hub in an agricultural region. He cites jobs as the major reason for challenging the incumbent.

“Jobs will solve the problems with unemployment, jobs will solve the reduction in good housing stock, jobs will solve problems for the social service agencies who have been drained economically,” Gaulrapp recently told a Rockford television station.

Prior to his election as mayor, Gaulrapp served as a Freeport alderman for eight years and has been a long time community leader. His business experience includes 29 years in the dental laboratory and supply industry and several years with E*Trade Solutions Group.

This is the third time in three elections that Manzullo has been challenged by Democratic mayors in his district.

In 2006 former Galena Mayor Richard Auman mounted a challenge. In 2008 Barrington Hills Mayor Robert Abboud made a run.

“It is a telling indictment when responsible municipal leaders from all corners of his congressional district challenge a powerful incumbent,” said McHenry County Democratic Chair Kathleen Bergan Schmidt.

The public is invited to attend the meeting. For further information see www.mchenrydems.org.

Sunday Green Party candidate for Congress Scott Summers got what was probably his first endorsement from a member of the media:

Scott Summers For Congress

Or would the Freeport blogger who writes “The Stephenson Blumdoggle

“ be insulted to be labeled a “member of the media.’”

As I understand it, the Freeport blog is named after Stephenson County Board Chairman John Blum.

The pseudonym of the blogger is “Tutty Baker.”

“I am the founder of Freeport Illinois and have been dead for more than a century but still roam the Pecatonica River Valley in an effort to keep local politicos on the up and up.”

The man who started the blog wanted to emphasize his displeasure with a particular boondoggle being promoted by Chairman Blum.

Hence, the blog’s name:

The Stephenson Blumdoggle.

The popularity of this engine of criticism has apparently brought the word “Blumdoggle” into the local vocabulary. Ridicule is not a good sign for a politician.

The boondoggle in question is something called “Mill Race Crossing.”

It’s an industrial park.

Here’s how the endorsement story describes the project:

“There are no projects slated for Mill Race Crossing. No viable plan to bring water and sewer to Mill Race Crossing, and there is no way for the public to recoup the money that Manzullo and other public officials have squandered on this Big Blumdoggle.”

So, how does this connect to the congressional race?

“Manzullo claims to be a fiscal conservative (as all Republican do) but a brief look at the record proves otherwise. Manzullo secured more than $1.7 million of taxpayer money for Mill Race Crossing. Manzullo stood in the middle of cornfield two years ago at the Mill Race groundbreaking and talked about how this project would create 2,000 jobs.

“Where are the jobs at Don Manzullo?

“Manzullo must be smoking from the same pipe as Stephenson County Board Chairman John Blum.”

The blogger considers Manzullo “pork barreller.”

“…ole Tutty also thinks Scott Summers would be a logical choice. Lord knows there is little discernible difference between Republicans and Democrats and Tutty believes it’s time to consider alternatives to the two major parties.

“Where have the Republicans and Democrats really gotten anybody?”

After you take a look at other articles posted about Mill Race Crossing, tell me if you think I was obsessive about McHenry County College’s baseball stadium or the McHenry County Republican Cat Tax:

Officials and Misrepresentations They Represent and Stand Behind

Jim Sacia’s Lack of Understanding Legislation that He Sponsors

Mill Race Owners and Sewage Expense

The Freeport Focus Toes the Official Line

New Interest in Mill Race Crossing?

The Freeport Focus and Journalism

The Mill Race Plan

John Blum Quoted

Mill Race in the News 8/18/08

Mill Race Crossing, August 2008

What Happened to the Facts?

The Blum Justification for a Larger Sales Tax

The Undersized Mill Race Water Tower

Component Systems Closing

Who Owns Mill Race Industrial Park?

The Great Speculators Continue to Speculate

A Sales Tax Referendum Cometh

Back in January of 2005…

The Return of Skurla

“Mill Race is Ready to Go”

What about the Sewage?

Forty-five to Sixty More Days…

A New Daily (News)paper

Big, Big BIG BLUMDOGGLE

Stephenson Poor Farm

Ben Stephenson Speaks

Water for Mill Race

Water (and Sewer) for Mill Race

Is NIDA really in a “transition”?

Dreamers Dream Big

More Skurla Talk

The Return of Skurla?

A New Month at Mill Race

Sheila Hooper and Her Loyalties

Early Lies

WFRL Radio Show

State of the County 2008

More Misrepresentations

The first post, found at the bottom, was from April 2^nd of this year.

Sunday Green Party candidate for Congress Scott Summers got what was probably his first endorsement from a member of the media:

Scott Summers For Congress

Or would the Freeport blogger who writes “The Stephenson Blumdoggle

“ be insulted to be labeled a “member of the media.’”

As I understand it, the Freeport blog is named after Stephenson County Board Chairman John Blum.

The pseudonym of the blogger is “Tutty Baker.”

“I am the founder of Freeport Illinois and have been dead for more than a century but still roam the Pecatonica River Valley in an effort to keep local politicos on the up and up.”

The man who started the blog wanted to emphasize his displeasure with a particular boondoggle being promoted by Chairman Blum.

Hence, the blog’s name:

The Stephenson Blumdoggle.

The popularity of this engine of criticism has apparently brought the word “Blumdoggle” into the local vocabulary. Ridicule is not a good sign for a politician.

The boondoggle in question is something called “Mill Race Crossing.”

It’s an industrial park.

Here’s how the endorsement story describes the project:

“There are no projects slated for Mill Race Crossing. No viable plan to bring water and sewer to Mill Race Crossing, and there is no way for the public to recoup the money that Manzullo and other public officials have squandered on this Big Blumdoggle.”

So, how does this connect to the congressional race?

“Manzullo claims to be a fiscal conservative (as all Republican do) but a brief look at the record proves otherwise. Manzullo secured more than $1.7 million of taxpayer money for Mill Race Crossing. Manzullo stood in the middle of cornfield two years ago at the Mill Race groundbreaking and talked about how this project would create 2,000 jobs.

“Where are the jobs at Don Manzullo?

“Manzullo must be smoking from the same pipe as Stephenson County Board Chairman John Blum.”

The blogger considers Manzullo “pork barreller.”

“…ole Tutty also thinks Scott Summers would be a logical choice. Lord knows there is little discernible difference between Republicans and Democrats and Tutty believes it’s time to consider alternatives to the two major parties.

“Where have the Republicans and Democrats really gotten anybody?”

After you take a look at other articles posted about Mill Race Crossing, tell me if you think I was obsessive about McHenry County College’s baseball stadium or the McHenry County Republican Cat Tax:

Officials and Misrepresentations They Represent and Stand Behind

Jim Sacia’s Lack of Understanding Legislation that He Sponsors

Mill Race Owners and Sewage Expense

The Freeport Focus Toes the Official Line

New Interest in Mill Race Crossing?

The Freeport Focus and Journalism

The Mill Race Plan

John Blum Quoted

Mill Race in the News 8/18/08

Mill Race Crossing, August 2008

What Happened to the Facts?

The Blum Justification for a Larger Sales Tax

The Undersized Mill Race Water Tower

Component Systems Closing

Who Owns Mill Race Industrial Park?

The Great Speculators Continue to Speculate

A Sales Tax Referendum Cometh

Back in January of 2005…

The Return of Skurla

“Mill Race is Ready to Go”

What about the Sewage?

Forty-five to Sixty More Days…

A New Daily (News)paper

Big, Big BIG BLUMDOGGLE

Stephenson Poor Farm

Ben Stephenson Speaks

Water for Mill Race

Water (and Sewer) for Mill Race

Is NIDA really in a “transition”?

Dreamers Dream Big

More Skurla Talk

The Return of Skurla?

A New Month at Mill Race

Sheila Hooper and Her Loyalties

Early Lies

WFRL Radio Show

State of the County 2008

More Misrepresentations

The first post, found at the bottom, was from April 2^nd of this year.