On Brunner undecided on Janesville City Council position

Posted on November 9 at 12:33 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

George Brunner is always fair and puts the city first. His personal situation should not effect his job with the city, and we should not let him resign.

George, please DO NOT resign your city councel position at this time.

Bob Kerman

On Alcohol sales on Janesville city property could expand

Posted on November 2 at 11:45 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

Now that The Back Bar has announced they are going to start up the Back Of The Yards softball fields again next spring, the city is considering beer at Dawson Field?

On Owners might demolish building over proposed historic district

Posted on July 28 at 3:53 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

115 E. Court Street housed the Janesville Telephone Answering Service. It was also Electrolarm Security Services's first Central Station for monitoring alarms. There were car batteries for standby power and candles for standby lighting. The owner at that time was Stan Fox Sr and General Manager was J.C. Stroeble.
Bob Kerman

On Janesville property values up 12 percent

Posted on July 12 at 11:02 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

BS
There is NO WAY an average house in Janesville is worth 6% more today than it was in 2002.
In fact, I propose the more actual value is about 33% less!
I challenge this assessor, the process, and the valuations.
The actual home sales the last six months speek for themselves.
Stand up Janesville, dont take this sitting down.

On Storm knocks out power to thousands

Posted on July 11 at 10:40 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

Volleyball tonight at Bobbleheads will be held as usual. I am sure the Bobbleheads sign sticking out of the sand that blew down in the storm this morning will be removed before the League play starts.

On What’s your favorite Rock County restaurant?

Posted on April 28 at 11:31 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

Bobbleheads Sports Bar & Grill

On Rock County unemployment reaches two-year low

Posted on December 23 at 10:08 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

Something in these stats is not right. Where are all these recently employed working? Not in Rock County. I think it's a play on the stats, not factoring in the large number of Janesville people that either moved out of Janesville, are working in another state but still have family in Janesville, and/or claim they still live in Janesville but really do not. How do you factor in all those that still have extended unemployed benifits from GM? Do they count as unemployed yet?
Bob Kerman

On South Jackson Street is new skatepark location

Posted on December 15 at 11:39 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

What happened to the 20 or so comments from yesterday?
They should be added back here.
Bob Kerman

On South Jackson Street is new skatepark location

Posted on December 14 at 12:16 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Of the three sites looked at, I always thought this was the best "overall" location for a Skate Park for many reasons.
This Jackson Street site is available at less overall cost, is closer to more kids, needs much less work to get started, and has easy street access for drop off, pick up, and security/safety monitoring.
Lets hope the person that stated they will pull back their donations if this site was chosen realize this is the best overall site and support it.
Lets hope the city agrees to fund no less than $40,000 to match the donated $40,000 and removes the request to hold back funding until donations hit $250,000.
Give the kids their Skate Park in 2011.
Bob Kerman

On Decision time for skatepark

Posted on December 12 at 12:53 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

$40,000 in existing fund raising is already a match the $40,000 the city comitted to. Thats fantastic for a project like this. I would suggest the project be approved with the $80,000 that exists, and make it happen at the Montery location with a scaled back plan. Better to have something this summer that can be expanded on as funds come in. The city could easy match the fund raising with annual project upgrades. A $10,000 annual city cap seems reasonable, for up to 5 years.
We need to take care of the younger population in Janesville.
Bob Kerman