The Red Brick Times

My letter to the editor got published! I'm now an official local crackpot! (As if you didn't already know.) Hooray! Gotta admit though, I'm a little worried about Emil, my fellow crackpot. Should he ever see Niki wag her tail (quite the plume and her most striking feature)... well, let's not go there.
Posted 2:50 PM by whatley (2) comments

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Umm..., it occurred to me that RBT'ers living elsewhere may not be up enough on current Elyria happenings to appreciate my letter for the gem that it is. Suffice to say that the school board, trying to get money for yet another new high school (the last one just got paid off and was abandoned, the school board members use it for luxury offices now), has been out of control for 7+ plus years (They first tried to get a new building levy in November of '2000, it failed, so they scheduled an "emergency election" in Feb. of '01 hoping older folks (on a fixed income and therefore anti-tax) couldn't get to the polls due to weather. Nice people.) Then the Mayor chimed in with his ideas of a central gym/swimming facility and mega-library and on and on...

These would all be wonderful things to have but there ain't no jobs here. The largest employer in the City of Elyria? The City of Elyria itself. The local mall is dying because people have less and less discretionary income. We're barely making our monthly utility payments. The solution: double (or more) property taxes. Do you get it now? I'm a letter writing genius aren't I?

# posted by  whatley : February 18, 2007 3:53 PM
 
Hmmm. Maybe it is time to pick a nice, quiet, rural county with no major airports, highways or rail lines and telecommute to life.

# posted by  Andy : February 19, 2007 8:50 PM
 
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