On Janesville sidewalk program passes
Posted on October 25 at 4:52 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
And from where does the city council think the residents are suppose to pull and extra $2,000 out from? Times are tough, A lot of people are doing everything they can to just get by, and keep groceries on the table!
Here again, and out of touch group of politicians puts thier own foolish adgenda ahead of the citizens best interests. We have 9% Unemployment! This as the city wants to increase the water charge another 21% ahead of the 9% they did the year before. Obviously our city council has a few too many clueless rich people or there is no way they would have voted to force people to pay for a sidewalk in this economic disaster. There is a ton of people locally who are poor and hurting, Homes are being repossesed because some cant afford thier payments, taxes, and utilities!
By the way, How many people have been killed in Janesville due to a lack of sidewalks? Can anyone think of ONE?
This has to be a grab by the city to put title leans on properties that are in forclosure etc or a way to ramp up the money they are making putting in the sidewalks. "Can't afford it?" "We'll put it in and until you pay for it, We own your house title!" This bill only hurts those who are hurting the worst.
Hey council members, Why do you think that people are mad? Why do you think there was hostility, and straight out resentment tward you when you vote for something like this at a time like this?
Thank You to those of you who voted NO! To those of you who voted yes, we will remember YOU at election time.
On Janesville area residents join Wall Street rallies
Posted on October 12 at 5:01 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
ddr- if they were working class people with jobs they would be at work instead of standing downtown in cities across the nation. How do you figure they are gonna help anything? They can't even help themselves. you cant raise everyones pay to high union wages or inflation will destroy the dollar and other world markets as well as making the US less competitive in the world wide job market. Why do you think companies move production away from the USA these days?
On Janesville area residents join Wall Street rallies
Posted on October 12 at 4:55 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Im so sick of these whiners, "Boo ho, I lost my job, so the government should take away money from people who earned it so I can stand out here on the street and protest that everyone is not as poor as I am." (unemployment already does) Glad my tax money is being spent on people who would rather protest that there are people with more money than them instead of looking for work. There will always be people with thier hand out telling others that life is not "fair" because "I" dont have what others have. Remember when your parents told you that life wasnt fair? Those who work hard, no matter what job they get are unfairly gettin blasted by lazy vagrants with no clear message other than "Gimmie your money because I am lazy and enjoy living off you fools who work."
Taxing the rich more will add NO JOBS TO OUR ECONOMY DUMMIES!!!! The government will spend every cent they get from taxing more on stupid stimulus packages that help no one. Corporations and big as well as small business are the ones who create the most jobs, like it or not. Taking money from them will not help make more jobs. This class warfare garbage Democrats keep spewing wont work either. At the US current spending levels if we took every penny each "rich" person had, plus all the money from big business, It would still only pay for 6-8 months of what they are spending! Wake up, the Americans at the top are not the enemy, the way our leaders are spending is what is creating this trouble. Turning Americans against other Americans will only lead to war, more poverty, and death. As Abe Linclon said "you cannot help the poor by destroying the rich."
BTW I'm far from rich, I just take pride in working for what I have, I don't take anything from others, and I owe No One a cent.
On Should city enact downtown historic overlay?
Posted on August 14 at 9:59 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Once one of these building are put into a historical district, all maintenance and changes have to be approved by the govt. and can take months. The cost to keep the building around would increase as the building gets older. Think of the cost to have a mason repair the brick arches etc like it was done back then. They dont make stuff like that anymore and the cost to have a trained restorer do work like that is crazy expensive. It was a neat looking old building, but it was small and not worth the investment to mainain it as historical. half of those historical building look like hell and should be torn down to put some breathing space back in the downtown. maybe a few nice green areas. only bad part is now you can see how ugly the rear of the other buildings on main look.
On Do you believe the city of Janesville is short on available retail space?
Posted on August 10 at 5:04 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Madcap75, Anyone who has lived here in Janesville long enough knows there was a very close time frame between the police chasing out the circuit "Kids" from the downtown and it's speedy death and mass exodus of business. Downtown had traffic then, people walked around down there, looked in shop windows and knew what shops were located down there. It created a place where store front would be seen. Now no one knows what is downtown. Who knows what stores are even open down there. No one looks at anything down there anymore because there is no reason to go there. Maybe you didnt like the reason "high school kids trying to get lucky" went down there, but the cold hard fact is they were down there. Period.
Janesvillecomments: Nice post.
Grandys618: Theres jerks everywhere world round, if you dont like the attitude of some of the people you met here, you should talk to some more locals. You could have had the same outcome in any other city, Don't knock mine thanks. Janesville has a nice balance of good people and jerks.
Mouse: Though I have never commented on you posts before, I dont know what left wing social group pays you to comment here, but your posts are all nonsense. your comments add noting factual to any posts you comment on. You just Walker bash. Don't forget it was our wonderful X governer Doyle who by the way was a democrat and the previous state congress, who overspent and in turn ruined the state budget and treasury. You can't blame anyone else for the mess were in ATM. Quit hating the guy for actually taking action on something instead of passing on to the next guy. Maybe support those who are trying to fix things instead of riding the dems "spending as usual" plan.. It isn't working. Were broke.
On EPA announces $76 million in brownfield grants
Posted on June 6 at 4:47 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
FYI Janesville has a few well known toxic sites.
The Old landfill is still a superfund site and remains in extended cleanup mode, it also still has a water pumps and filters to keep contaminants from flowing into the rock river underground. The pumps are behind the old Parker Pen plant.
Second there is still the Wheeler pit dump that has been capped, but requires maintenance to keep trees and shrubs from breaking through the clay cap above its millions of gallons of Acids, VOC's and heavy metals floating above our ground water supply. Testing wells were dug and are monitored every few years.
Also the Janesville ash beds. Info is all available about these sites and what is contained in them at the EPA website.
I've posted several times about Wheeler pit and somehow everyone thinks it was cleaned up. Not to mention all the things locals have been exposed to before it was "cleaned up".
"Cleaned up" like kids shoving everything under the bed.
Never mind that the new hospital is within a golfs balls distance from it..
Heres a link:
http://www.epa.gov/region5superfund/npl/...
On Home’s demolition splits Janesville Historic Commission
Posted on April 18 at 4:49 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
I'm glad they let him tear down that house, It makes the ones around it so much nicer. Thats one of the reasons not many wealthy folks are willing to buy and fix those old beautiful historical houses up there, There is no good lot around them. Some have no garage. Imagine what a house like those would be like with an acre or a few around them. Im not saying rip em all down, but by removing some of the decrepit ones, the whole area will profit from the open space.
History must be preserved, but lets not let the Janesville Historic Commission get too much power over homeowner and thier properties.
On Walk out on Walker has Janesville City Council sparring
Posted on March 31 at 5:03 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Mr. Raskin did not represent Me either. He should have been there to promote THE CITY OF JANESVILLE, not his own personal views on politics or Walker. Also, It's not good to spit in the governers face when Janesville will need help from His administration to recover. He may have done our city a great deal of harm in the long run. If he wanted to protest there were better ways to do so on his OWN time.
Posted on December 2 at 4:55 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
What needs to be done to bring life back to the downtown dead zone first and foremost is to tear down some of the falling apart eye sore old buildings and make some parking lots to allow easy parking downtown and maybe, just maybe people would be willing to go shop down there again. As long as the area is crammed with falling down old buildings in disrepair, and no where to park, downtown Janesville west of the river will remain a ghost town regardless of how traffic goes past.
In my opinion the downtown Traffic mess is no worse than the terrible Wildwood center or whatever they call that area by best buy or ANYWHERE on Milton avenue.
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On Mercy president, CEO defends his salary
Posted on December 12 at 4:43 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Uh, RPRP, in case you didnt notice seems anyone who makes money these days gets turned into a criminal by the "Lib"tards. Thanks to class warfare being used by the dems to make wealthy americans look like the problem, instead of failed socialist tax the crap out people politics.