Spike,

That guy Brian Tapp from regional planning sounds like a real idiot. He refuses to meet with two local business people in his lobby along with a Hawkeye reporter and photographer. And he refuses their cake.

Only a mindless nitwit would refuse free cake.

That's un-American and terribly rude.

GH

Keep in mind Tapp is the same nitwit that sucks up bags of taxpayer money and redistributes it to worthless family and church projects.

Why would he try to save any money when he is building his monument in Uncle Hans' backyard.

Spike

Spike

Just a question for our City management and the City Council. There was an article in this weeks Des Moines Register about the State union workers. They were told at their last contract that they could not have pay raises and free health insurance. Not both. The State could not afford it. They chose the free health insurance.

Why did our City council and City manager agree to 5 years of FREE health insurance and nice pay raises? For the next 5 years?

Our Burlington City management should never have done this. We can't afford it. It will increase taxes or cut services to our citizens.

Then they have the guts to blame the State for all of their troubles. Do they think this is fair to burden the citizens of Burlington so they can have more money and benefits? Government is too big and too expensive. It is killing the economy.

The public pension system will either break everybody trying to keep up or it will go broke at the rate it is headed. There will be massive layoffs in the future because the union contracts are too costly. Our community is not better for it. There are citizens sacrificing and suffering right now. It sure is not local government employees.

Thank you for this forum. There are a lot of citizens reading it and discussing the issues.

Disappointed in our Officials

If you think this is bad wait just until Heland uncovers his next 4-year spendaholic crime spree campaign promise to city employees to get their vote.

Spike

From the Ad Vertiser’s newest cub, Jermaine Pigee; not found online but found in iowa's Oldest (and thinnest) News in Print:

"When a doctor needs medication, my job will be to find the closest medication that works for each patient," she said. "Then I have to go through an interrupter and explain and hope the patient understands how to take the medication and hope that if there is medication that must be taken with food, the patient has food to take it with. That's an issue in itself."

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U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Brandon Blackwell

HS2 Jonathan Edwards, MSST 91112, and ET1 Leroy Marcel, MSST Miami, provide translation (interpreter) and medical assistance to American citizens awaiting transport back to the U.S., Jan. 18, 2010.

Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for 2009

1. Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT)
2. Senator John Ensign (R-NV)
3. Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA)
4. Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner
5. Attorney General Eric Holder
6. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL)/ Senator Roland Burris (D-IL)
7. President Barack Obama
8. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
9. Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) and the rest of the PMA Seven - Murtha’s son and Peter J. Visclosky (D-IN.), James P. Moran Jr. (D-VA), Norm Dicks (D-WA.), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), C.W. Bill Young (R-FL.)and Todd Tiahrt (R-KS.)
10. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY)

Spike

The Burlington Community School District rec'd a grant for $4,079,671.00 dollars. Out of that a $1,573,499.00 grant was used to provide special education for children with disability and support struggling reading students.

Do you think Oak St. got any of this money or are we going to start building another school?

I see the city paid Two Rivers Bank and General obligation &Interest for the aquatic note for their $1,738,037.78. I hope this was the final payment because we've lost enough principal and interest on this loan due to city leaders failure to understand business.

Mr. Worden wants to move to the depot, I would advise him to figure in the price of sound proofing, we don't want those pesky trains making any noise when they go by.

I think we need some independents running for city, state and federal governments.

Another disgusted taxpayer

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