PIGEON FORGE — A Margaritaville-themed campground should open this May near the Spur, as construction is under way on a project first announced in 2019.
Marfield Council Deadlocks on New Public Utility Building, Mayor Casts Tie-breaking Vote By Mike Leischner
Jan 13, 2021 4:35 PM
MARSHFIELD, WI (WSAU-WDLB) By the narrowest of margins, the City of Marshfield will be getting a new public power and water utility building on Central Avenue.
Alders voted 5-5 to approve borrowing some $20 million to fund the project during Tuesday’s council meeting. That tie was then broken by Mayor Bob McManus, who voted yes despite financial concerns by some on the council.
Alder Ken Bargender said the current building dates back to 1966, meaning it’s not nearly as old as many of the houses that are currently being occupied in the city.
(Article by Bob McManus republished from NYPost.com)
The story described a high state of angst among east siders resulting from sustained “gunfire and car crashes” caused in turn by “the combined impact of the pandemic and the recession that have battered the country.”
No doubt this is true, as far as it goes. But it doesn’t go nearly far enough.
The auto accidents are described in some detail (“cars have crashed into a corner grocery store, a home and a beloved local diner”), but the gunplay gets short shrift.
“The Cleveland police reported six homicides in one 24-hour period in November,” the Times reported, which is both appalling and quite true. But here appears the hole in the story: That bloodbath was part of a seven-day shooting binge that took 15 lives adjusting for population differences, the equivalent of 330 New Yorkers shot dead in the streets over a single week.
And not just silence. “On the other side of the aisle, they have members of their conference talking about defunding the police and getting rid of funding for [the Department of Homeland Security] and [Immigration and Customs Enforcement],” Mr. Zeldin said.
The Capitol was evacuated Wednesday as crowds breached the building after the Save America March. The protesters broke windows and fought police, who made 68 arrests. One protester, 35-year-old Ashli Babbitt of San Diego, was fatally shot by an officer. Three others died of medical conditions.
Even so, President-elect Joseph R. Biden said Thursday that Black Lives Matter protesters would have been treated “very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol. We all know that’s true. And it is unacceptable, totally unacceptable.”
The protest siege on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob met Thursday with widespread bipartisan condemnation, a show of unified outrage that Republicans said would have been nice last year when leftist hordes were looting and burning major U.S. cities.