I was in Terrace Park today and saw a couple of pieces of graffiti; one was near the tennis court and one near home plate of the baseball diamond. 
... are pretty aggressive. I've had a half-dozen visits from these heroes in 2009. Usually they travel in pairs for additional obnoxiousness.
but his comment function blows up with "too much time elapsed!" if you take more than a few minutes to compose, you know, a comment that is thoughtful and not all extremist-ish. See image to the right. Using the back button results in a blank form so your text is lost, which is generally not the case with most comment submissions.Grassroots in what way? The manner of its founding "in 1972 by the Junior Chamber of Commerce" or its current incarnation led by Parks department staff and volunteers, with donations collected by/at Parks, using a COR email address and phones, hosted on the COR website, and with a set of rather Draconian rules (pdfs apparently produced by COR's H. McCrady) hosted there including the permitted number of Santas (one, in case you are wondering)? I know the definition of "grassroots" is rather fluid these days, but seriously folks.That's an example of extremism? A civil objection offered up with specific reasons and supporting evidence gleaned from the COR website? I submit that Mr. Steger paints too broadly and energetically with the "extremist" brush, and it weakens his argument.
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My guess is; they cooked the books.
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Why would someone write such a story in the firstplace with such a misleading headline and without all the facts, and then have to do a tail-between-the-legs correction? Looks like someone needs to spend less time texting, polishing his shoes, and swallowing what Keffler's Krew feeds him, and more time beating the streets and investigating the etch-a-sketch numbers being put out by the city. Must be using the Bernie Made-off Accounting Made Simple or Generally Assinine Accounting Principles (GAAP, yeh, a really big one) methods in putting these figures together.
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Note: there was an identical dupe at 2:48 that was also deleted, but that's reasonable.
Regardless of where you get the numbers, an investigative reporter needs to verify the information and data before publishing a story. To blame someone else for not doing this is unacceptable and a cop-out. Anyone who has any clue of what is really going on with the economy knows that double digit increases in sales tax collections is impossible. With the city's economic base being far smaller than many other larger cities, the percentage increases and decreases are going to be skewed one way or the other, and the main focus should be on absolute figures. Regarding the comments of Mr. Anonymous Sick of Crazy People (aka Mr. Happy Talk), sounds like he should be onboard with getting rid of the city council if he really feels that way. What he/she needs to understand is that city and their cohorts are the ones who initiated the malicious and false slander campaign attacks against reasonable and informed residents. This includes the "crazy" label which has been slapped on many reasonable residents who have met with city officials and attempted to effect positive change for the benefit of all citizens (and not for a select few of elitist kleptocracts) to no avail. Why, because they are not considered by those in control as having any right to do so (to paraphrase the city attorney's "dasturdly" view of the general public). This is what is killing the city, along with the root corruption, holding closed door meetings, and violating the City Charter, and a willful failure in many instances to adhere to and enforce the existing laws. It's about time that rocks started being overturned and the magnifying glass focused on the city - we neet to get rid of the crooks, hold those fully accountable and responsible for any misdeeds they may have committed, right the wrongs, and most importantly, elect officials that will put their sworn oath of office vows to uphold the City Charter, City Ordinances, and all other existing laws, and exercise their inherent legal and fiduciary responsibilities, above and beyond all else.
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Children! Children! For those of us who have been tuning in for the past few years, this looks to me like a repeat performance of the December annual event. What is disgusting about it is that the story line hasn't changed, and City officials have a pension for publishing half-truths to mislead the electorate, and like a gang of pathological hucksters, make a tidy living at it.
