Genoa is getting many things right, putting community togetherness, generous donations, and volunteering as priorities. This is for Genoa:
4th Street TIF? Not on Your Life
Chronicle: “Fourth Street plans continue at monthly meetings”: [Brian] Scholle, an insurance agent whose office is on South Fourth Street, is spearheading the initiative to redevelop South Fourth Street, which he stressed will require a lot of patience. “South Fourth Street has to be the next area that’s on the city’s radar,” Scholle said. Creating…
Clean Up in Aisle/Ward Three
DeKalb Citizens for Transparency AKA The Mop & Bucket Brigade PRESS RELEASE What: “Clean-up DeKalb City Hall” Rally and March* When: Monday, November 23, 2009, 5:15-6 p.m. Where: Begins at Lincoln Highway and First Street; ends at City Hall Why: “Attention, attention…we need a clean-up in aisle. . .I mean, Ward Three.” In the wake…
“Keeping Up Appearances”
Oh my, I believe I figured out DeKalb. It is not ‘our version of Naperville,’ it is our version of an old British sit-com : http://www.uk-comedy.com/
Northern Star Comedy
The first two sections of this seem very close to the City of DeKalb. Enjoy! Time to Get Ethical
Bloggers are Not Boycotting Downtown
Pretty much I view the anti-blogger sentiments expressed by the Citizens Community Enhancement Commission as evidence of a power struggle over information and message. I still do. However, it has come to my attention that real fear has been generated among some downtown business owners that bloggers are calling for general boycotts of downtown. Yes,…
Appalling Comment #101,382
There was so much not to like at Monday night’s meeting I let this slip past until now.
“Good Night, Santa Cruz, We Love You”
If folks here think they have their hands full with bloggers, it could be worse. FYI: The first couple of comments are not Rated G:
Rally for a Better City Government
We demand: Commitments to the highest standards of ethical conduct at all departments and levels of city government. This includes: full adherence to state ethics statutes, with full and repeated public disclosures of financial interests by elected officials, city employees, family members of city employees, former city employees, and board and commission members; ethics ordinance(s)…
DeKalb Declares War on Bloggers
From Citizens Community Enhancement Commission (CCEC) meeting minutes (PDF p. 42), September 21, 2009: 1. City Image Chairman Matya advised that at the suggestion of City Manager Biernacki, he and Mr. Barnes met with Mr. Biernacki, Mr. Espiritu and Mr. Herb Rubin regarding the City’s image on blogs, etc. It was suggested that the CCEC…