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Wonderful news, Allen. It's always great to aquire land with EPA issues, at bargain prices to boot. You've made many peoples' day!

Sorry, I think this was a decent purchase. No one else wanted it and we are wanting/needing to clean up HP Road. Part of it I guess. Dont know enough to know about the price we paid (too high, market, whatever). Sort of an important detail I guess. I thought many of the EPA issues had been taken care of by ownership?

Maybe we could combine the two parcels, keep what we need for whatever and sell remainder for development.

Quite right. The city should buy every piece of property that nobody else wants in the city. Daggone right! It will just be like bailing out the banks and auto makers. Why shouldn't property owners get some!

After all; always follow the Goldie Rule-We might all be dead tomorrow!

Savage:
You're getting a lot of mileage out of that one, huh?

Point well taken. Help us.

Allen, what we need is for YOU to get some milage out of it and like write an editorial, you know, like newspaper guys do when poltician's lose their minds and it affects the public.

I know, you might get around to it.

So how much, and of what duration, is the immunity from such that thirty pieces of Canada Dry silver buys, do ya think?

i doubt it deserves a whole editorial. You could write us a letter if you'd like.

Allen you're trying to exploit me and use me as a cut rate south-of-the-literary-border camposino. Besides you won't let me sign LTE as SSS, will you? Plus, if I sign my real name it will impugn what I have to say even more than signing Skeet Club Savage.

Now, I know what I'm suggesting, that the N&R do an editorial that is critical of the city gvt. of G-Boro is revolutionary and would re-invent the local news wheel, but I kind of think an experienced editorial writer would have a better chance of affecting public opinion than little Savagito.

I guess I'm just being silly

Just do it as the little one, not the main one.

Look we all understand your reluctance to come down on Mitch or the council in any kind of meaningful way no matter how many people storm the city council mtgs. I wouldn't want Mitch or DBS calling me on the phone: "Johnson, WTF??? We buy the soda pop now you coming after this?"

Revitalizing High Point Road is a good use of tax payer dollars. Urban renewal is an age old use of public funds. Everything is relative.

It's certainly true that urban renewal is an age old use of public funds, mainly because the last round of urban renewal screwed things up so badly it costs a ton of money to fix it this time.

Unfortunately, there is more than a little truth there. I believe if handled properly (BIG IF) the purchase, demolition, repackaging and sale of remainder can be a good thing for the High Point Rd/Lee St corridor and Gso. We shall see.

it's a pipe dream to think by buying this piece of property that High Point Rd is going to be cleaned up. the city needs to buy up all the property near the coliseum if this is to happen and we know that won't happen. this was a total waste of taxpayer money.

Good idea Jake. What we need is a $500 mil. bond next Spring to rejuvenate the area. More taxpayer financed improvement to get ready for future ACC Tournaments and Wyndham Championships. Right now city leaders are embarrassed to hold these events in the middle of a ghetto with no amenities but fast food, pawn shops, rat infested environmental hazardous monoliths, prostitutes, flop house hotels and drug dealers. Given council's current mindset and willingness to cough up big bucks this will be on the agenda in late December or early January.
" Let's do this." " We don't know what is going to happen in the future. We could all be dead."

When will the newspaper report some serious news? Imagine for a minute that I have a complaint against the news and record about my paper delivery and i want you guys to pay me 100 dollars as compensation, but you guys aren't allowed to know who I am or exactly what my delivery complaint is about would you be so stupid as to pay that amount (amounting to a ransom paid to avoid a potential lawsuit?)?

now imagine you find out who i am and discover than i have never subscribed to your paper you might think twice before paying me off over a complaint over how you deliver my paper.

now imagine that the whole basis of my complaint was that my neighbor gets a paper and lives in a house that looks exactly like mine so that my logic was that since we all live in houses that look alike we should all get a free ride on the paper.

while my rant is an oversimplified comparsion to the EEEOC complaint filed by local law officers, the point here is principle. people who weren't even in a book or whom have advanced well into the management layers of an organization where they have great influence on policies, procedures and personnel both above and below them are now claiming they have been discriminated against?

so why would elected leaders consider handing out money without knowing who or why they would get it?

AND WHY DOES THE LOCAL PAPER SIT BACK AND PAINT THE PICTURE LIKE THESE PEOPLE HAVE A CASE TO STAND ON INSTEAD OF DIGGING DEEPER INTO THINGS>?

Given that the settlements are off the table now, what is the story again?

Allen,
Long weekend? Thought you might have taken the buyout.

Long weekend. Missed me?

Allen, don't want to waste your time, and I know it's kind of silly, but it seems the story might have been about some policemen and a voting block on the council with a complicit town mgr. trying to extort money from the taxpayers of G-Boro. I know it's silly and probably not worth of your attentions. You have important stuff to do like book reviews etc.

I agree with you Allen. What's the story? Bleep the taxpayers of G-Boro. Let them drink ginger ale

...They've been bleeped before, they'll be bleeped again. Whataya gonna do! You just work there.

You know, Allen, when public servants and officials get together to blatantly scam taxpayer money, in the non-G-Boro world, there is a name for it. Ah...wait a minute, it will come to me...Ah...let's try : graft", or ah...ah... "corruption". Yeah, that's it. Stuff that usually gets newspapermen excited. In Boro-World it's "what's the story again".

Ground control to Major Allen.
Ground control to Major Allen.

This is ground control to Major Allen
You're stepping through the door.
And you're floating in a most pecular way
And the earth looks very different today...