Couple things this week...
"... Dave’s Hot Dog Stand, a summertime fixture. This summer, the stand and other street vendors will have the opportunity to return to the Main Street Festival Zone, which is Main from Elm to Mulberry streets...."

Got THAT? They kicked out this guy to tear out the pedestrian mall where he set up....
And MILLIONS OF TAX$$$$$$$$$ later....http://www.rockfordil.gov/public-works/projects/downtown-streetscape.aspx we let him move back though probably have to CLOSE the street to be safe for customers...


Have you driven that clusterf*&%k?
The way they go from the parking lane and then ballooned out corners...a regular BOTTLENECK....and moving 'traffic' thru downtown? WHAT A JOKE! there's no left turn signals or lanes so IF someone wants to turn left and you are 3-4 cars back, you might sit thru 3-4 green lights,waiting while traffic stretches behind block after block. Amnd just wait till they spend hundres of thousands to make Church St. 2-way...25 cars downtown will have the potential for absolute GRIDLOCK!~!

That'll 'revitalize downtown' huh?

I've always gotten a real kick out of the daily paper touts "Sunshine Week" a hypothetical time to call for more openness in government dealings. They publish a few editorials, cartoons, and then it's gone till next year.

There's just so much about our city administration they choose to keep in the dark.
How about...did you get your new "at&t Real Yellow Pages" phonebook? The inside of the front cover-LarryBoy and LarryDaddy's grinning faces, advertising their ambulance-chasing law firm. Seems SO UNETHICAL that a full-time, elected public official shills for his private practice.
AND, to top it off, there, right next to The Mayor's head, the CITY LOGO taxpayers PAID for, the ubiquitous "Real, Original" crap!!!!!!

Just don't seem right.

Haven't heard about that 'selling the water system' idea for a while, but that doesn't mean LarryBoy isn't scheming behind the scenes.
So here's an example of "Privatized Government" services...

"About 360 residents of Cherry Valley Township could see their water rates quadruple by the end of the year...."

So been under the weather a bit so where to start?

Oh check THIS OUT....

"...The arbitrator’s ruling “finds that (police Chief Chet Epperson) and (city Legal Director Patrick Hayes) willfully violated the collective bargaining agreement,”..."

CrackerJack legal minds,huh? Then LarryBoy uses his "Officer's Report" to bash the arbitrator, just like when a fire arbitration ruled 64 MEANS 64...imagine that?

So couple things struck me....
for a LAWYER LarryBoy sure doesn't RESPECT THE LEGAL SYSTEM....I mean he loses and it's open season on courts, laws, and arbitrators.

Secondly, as a TAXPAYER, I'm FED UP with this administration wasting so much time and money TRYING TO BREAK CONTRACTS signed 'in good faith'...

So this past week saw the kinda whiplash reactions LarryBoy's Empire has spawned...See,THIS http://www.rrstar.com/news/yourtown/rockford/x1111634582/Developer-seeks-delay-of-historic-designation-in-Rockford
story brings out commentators so angry that concerned citizens would DARE to apply(and GET) historic designation for the Amerock Building and yet the next day
http://www.rrstar.com/news/yourtown/rockford/x1111634582/Developer-seeks-delay-of-historic-designation-in-Rockford
people act like LarryBoy, using THE SAME "redevelopment tool" just healed a couple lepers....different rules for different folks...
the talk of property tax breaks led me HERE http://ims.wingis.org/
and low and behold, LarryBoy has NO PROPERTY ON WHICH TO PAY CITY PROPERTY TAXES...
see...

11-14-459-001 1027 N COURT ST MORRISSEY REALTY GROUP LLC,
11-23-315-001 127 N WYMAN ST MORRISSEY REALTY GROUP LLC,
11-14-455-015 1128 N CHURCH ST MORRISSEY, JOSEPHINE

So

Rockford Scandals and Shenanigans

had a fabulous (as always) find on a lobbying firm the city pays $120,000 a year....so I'm thinking what 'fund' is THIS coming out of and so I head to http://www.rockfordil.gov/ and
OH BOY!!!!!

A 'new,uplifting' City WEBSITE!!!!!!!!!
Bright,new logo scrolling pix,starting with LarryBoy followed by his masterpuppet...Venita!!always in his corner..,.screw the citizens,I'M A LAWYER I AM SMART I KNOW WHAT IS BEST...SHUT UP

The EXCELLENT Facebook page-writer at Rockford Scandals and Shenanigans ,well, they beat me to the punch on half this post.

See,past week brought THIS dandy downtown deal they wrote about...A DOWNTOWN development fundraiser in....CHERRY VALLEY!!!!!!!!!!!


Oh, but that's only half the story...
Keep in mind,MILLIONS of TAX DOLLAR$$ for the Riverwalk, right, so some of the reasoning is starting at Burpbee Museum to showcase the dinosaur exhibits, right, SO are we building that FREAKIN'RIVERWALK ALL THE WAY TO THE CHERRYVALE MALL????

That' s where the newest,bestest DinoBones are........