After the election and before Thanksgiving…quiet on the surface but important issues are still swirling behind the scenes. What’s your news, question or comment?
This photo is of the 1969 marble marker at the border of McEuen Field and Tubb’s Hill. The inscription says:
“This land acquired for the benefit of the people forever”
Interesting poll question over on the right side of this web site. Of course elected officials should not pretend they wrote a column that was actually written by paid city staff, unless they state it was co-written and both names appear as the authors.
Comment by mary — November 21, 2011 @ 9:53 am
To the contrary Mary,(IMO) if it was written by the staff, it should acknowledge the staff and dept and not give any portion of the credited by-line to the council member.
Comment by Ancientemplar — November 21, 2011 @ 10:47 am
Isn’t this called duplicity? Perhaps CDA should be renamed Coeur d’Plicity.
Comment by rochereau — November 21, 2011 @ 12:39 pm
“This land acquired for the benefit of the {{{PRETTY}}} people forever”
Comment by Pariah — November 21, 2011 @ 1:05 pm
I don’t know about that pariah. Some tourist/ole boy (behavior) isn’t so pretty.
Comment by rochereau — November 21, 2011 @ 1:41 pm
I think you’re right, Ancient. The elected official should just add their signature as “in agreement”, if they wish. But in our local culture, the mayor and council have many, many documents ghost-written for them, they just pretend they’re the authors.
A number of years ago, when I first started writing columns for the Press, our current Mayor Bloem and the current City Council, (except it was Dixie Reid instead of John Bruning), signed their names to a Letter to the Editor which compared my opinion column to elephant dung. How’s that for a classy response from our elected officials?
I asked Woody sometime later, why he allowed his name to be used on that letter, and he just shrugged his shoulders and said, “Well, you know…”
No Woody, I don’t.
Comment by mary — November 21, 2011 @ 6:59 pm
rochereau, “Coeur d’Plicity” is better than “Corrupt d’Alene”. Good one.
Comment by Ancientemplar — November 22, 2011 @ 8:51 am
The moral of the fire hydrant story in a local newspaper today…’Just say’ no’; or ‘Nope, I’m not going to do it’; or ‘KM__’. Apparently any variation works fine. The City accepts that type of answer from those who pull its strings. I wonder what all the ‘average Joe-Six Packs’ who have received a visit from the City’s ‘code enforcement police’ think about this approach, and the City’s response of…’well, well, okay, if you keep this up we will, well we will…just have to change the law/rules for you’?
Comment by Joe Six-Pack — November 22, 2011 @ 12:47 pm
Joe: I thought it was interesting that the Resort didn’t return the Paper’s queries.
Comment by Dan — November 22, 2011 @ 3:17 pm
Dan, good point. I can only think that the telephone lines must have been down. With regard to the paper’s inquiry, I guess I have to at least give it credit for running the story.
Comment by Joe Six-Pack — November 23, 2011 @ 7:48 am