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Wednesday, August 8, 2018

One-liners

One-liners


So now the WBASD has changed it's collective, vaccuous mind once again by voting to close GAR high school. 

If and when you arrive in a seat on the school board are you then subjected to random drug testing? Methinks they ought to be.

Why do the television meteorologists spend so much time telling me what happened yesterday?

Thing is, I was here/there. I Already knew as much. Thanks anyway.

How long should it take to appoint a new chief of police?

Was there not a chain of command before the previous chief retired?

Why two days to collect the curbside collections?

Is this more efficient and affordable?

Does City Council do anything more meaningful than Faceplant?

Doesn't seem like it.

When does the 'tough on crime" election year gambit begin?

Good question.









Saturday, August 4, 2018

landfill-at-the-curb program revisited

I ripped this promised tomfoolery from faceplant...




why can't we stick with the time-tested program wherein we park beneath the cross valley expressway and toss our refuge down the bank and into Laurel Run creek?

oh. and what about motor vehicles? can we remove the tarp and drag them out to the street? sure, with a sticker, of course.

buh-bye

Thursday, August 2, 2018

Stuff

Stuff


I know it's been a while, but here's what Markie thinks...

It's been mentioned more times in the past than Kardashian backsides doubling as amphibious assault ships, but it seems that ACT 47 has finally made it's way to Wilkes-Barre.

Even as the current administration opts for it as some form of faux leadership,  the true intellection is it is little more than deniability for said leadership if and when austerity comes to town. As is always the case in these troubled parts, the buck will abruptly stop at the feet of the advisory group and not on the desks of the clueless, feckless decision makers.

It's a ruse people. So, try not to choke on your bubble gum.

Notice: Not a single name. Go curse at someone else.


A little over a year ago, I suffered a life-threatening health emergency, was hospitalized and trudged through miles and miles of therapy. Due to that unexpected adventure, I've had zero interest in muckraking, writing and what have you. I do have a new grandson and yet another on the way. We're up to seven that is; 6 grandsons and one granddaughter.

The bed-wetting leftists keep going on and on about diversity, and I'm here to attest to the fact that it blows when it arrives next door. especially when the city has little to no interest in enforcing it's own rules, laws and the like. As a white-skinned devil, I realize I'm supposed to remain silent when diversity brings reverse-gentrification with it. As Tommy used to always say, Shut your hole! That's the unwritten rule these days as it pertains to being a white boy in a more diverse urban drug market.

Speaking of drugs, I like the two-faced game our elected dummies are playing of late. They work to save us from drugs, while simultaneously working to bring in more so as to raise more taxable revenue to waste. Maroons!!!

Sez me

Markie...zorcong@frontier.com







Thursday, March 23, 2017

House of Kroy tour

...sans the basement and garage.




Monday, October 17, 2016

Thursday, February 25, 2016

One Too Many Help Lines in This City

I thought we were on the fast track to bankruptcy, insolvency, pestilence and chaos.

I dunno, that's what the new Mayor was selling but a fortnight ago.

From The Citizens' Voice:

Grievance filed by union raises questions about city help line job

The obligatory excerpt...

WILKES-BARRE — A grievance filed on behalf of city hall employees earlier this month raises questions regarding the status of the re-established mayor’s help line and salary for its coordinator.

The Laborers’ International Union of North America Local 1310 in Wilkes-Barre filed a grievance about two weeks ago arguing that the mayor’s help line should be a union position and been put out for bid. The position had been a union position prior to being eliminated by former Mayor Tom Leighton. When Mayor Tony George reinstated the help line coordinator, he made it a non-union management position.

He selected Carol Smith for the job at her former city rental inspector salary of $52,503 — $22,287 more than the job paid in 2004 before it was eliminated. If that job were to exist today, after accounting for a 3 percent annual raise included in the union contract, the salary would be $43,080.
So we'll pay $52,503 for a switchboard operator? Or, shall we say, a glorified secretary who answers the Mayor's needless help line?

Here! I've got a number that someone at City Hall should be dialing, and soon: 829-1341. Yeah, someone who luxuriates in sophistry by way of discursiveness needs help. Real help, that is.

G'nite

Monday, February 22, 2016

The Murray Weed Patch: Progress as Promised?

A centrally located high school anyone?

Murray Complex developer: Contractor 'left us hanging'

From that February 2011 Citizens' Voice story:

 Though Siniawa would entertain offers to sell the entire property or portions of it, he said he still hopes he could have the property cleared this spring and construction started on the development within the year. He wouldn't say exactly what he's planning now, but said the project might be developed "piecemeal."

Try this Times Leader story dated Fri, Dec. 22, 2006

WILKES-BARRE – Voicing praise for the developers, the Wilkes-Barre Area School Board voted unanimously to approve the district’s participation in a tax increment financing plan to fund renovations to the Murray Complex.
 Wilkes-Barre attorney Frank Hoegen, speaking for the Siniawa family – the Scranton-based developer of the $22 million project in the century-old warehouse space – said the condominiums, shops and restaurants would serve as a catalyst for further development.

“The Siniawas are going to borrow $15 million and pledge their properties as collateral. They are taking a huge personal risk to take a blighted area in downtown Wilkes-Barre and turn it into a showcase,” Hoegen said.

According to the resolution passed Thursday, the school district will join with Luzerne County and the city of Wilkes-Barre to develop a tax increment financing plan to fund $2.2 million of the debt for the project’s first phase. That phase calls for 55 condominium units and businesses that will generate an estimated $313,000 in taxes beyond the $20,000 the 480,000-square-foot site now nets the district.
 
“That increase will be created by virtue of the improvement to the property,” Hoegen said, “and the difference will be channeled to the (Luzerne County) Redevelopment Authority to pay the debt service on the loan.”He said the district will continue to receive the $20,000 in taxes it currently receives, as well as mercantile, transfer and income taxes generated by the property.

At the end of the 15-year term of the financing plan, the additional tax revenue will be split between the city, the county and the school district at a rate yet to be agreed upon, according to the resolution.

Luzerne County Commissioners approved participation in the plan earlier Thursday. Hoegen said the city is expected to decide soon whether to join in.

Project architect Alexander J. Belavitz said the plan is to “have the shovel in the ground” to start the project by late spring or early summer.

So, except for some weed growth, here we are in 2016 and not much progress has been made. More accurately put, the site has been all but abandoned. 

If you ask me, this is where the new E.L. Meyer Coughlin facility should be built.

Anyway, the question still begs. What's the latest on this so-called project?

Huh?

Saturday, February 20, 2016

Profanation on Parade

If we had a plug nickel for every school board jackass that goes to prison...

From The Citizens' Voice:

Ex-school board president faces drug charges
 

WILKES-BARRE — Louis Elmy, former president of the Wilkes-Barre Area School Board, faces federal drug trafficking charges that could land him in prison for up to 30 years.

Elmy, 51, who works as a counselor at Luzerne County Correctional Facility, was charged Friday with felony counts of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and being a habitual drug user in possession of a firearm.
All of which helps to confirm that my November 'no confidence' vote whereas the school board is concerned was the correct vote. Besides, it seems as if electing people to that school board of ill repute is like providing them with a shortcut to the hoosegow.

Wanna bet Meyers/Coughlin comes in on time and under budget?


G'nite

Thursday, February 18, 2016

Memberin' History Back

Some old pics from some old web site...









'Nuf.