Good planning sometime run’s amuck..

A 1927 painting of the future for Rapides Parish.

I just thought it was a fun thing to learn from.

No  matter what experts we put on the job, it just might not

happen like they plan. (A just for fun post)

Alex

Well the Town Talk…finally……..composed a story on “Food Gate”

http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20091107/NEWS01/911070314&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL

Took them long enough…

 Investigative reporting is a thing of the past.

Like I have stated earlier, we need some real business men on the Alexandria City Council…

Economic Impact ???

How?????”

PLEASE, do not insult my feeble intelligence.

And please tell me  why is it when you bring absurd actions by a group or an individual to the publics attention..You have an  agenda against them??

I am very perplexed about that statement.

Way to go Greg!

Alex

We have seen the invoices. Read them. Talked about the issue.

Over $71,000 spent on food in one year….

Scratched our heads in wonderment.  Asked why?

To no avail.

After considering the events, backed by the invoices.

Reading comment’s by other interested parties.

Waiting for some type of explanation.  (any kind at all.)

I can come to only one conclusion.

I have said it before and I now say it with conviction.

I have watched City Council meetings play out on the public channel.

We are being governed by a troupe of absolute clowns.

What they seem to be.

(The tongue that is sticking out of the Clown’s mouth is being wagged at us, all of us!)

They have done this because they know they can get away with it.

They think , nothing at all will happen to them. They assume invincibility.

 They ignore the challenge made to them for accountability.

Just because some of them are lawyers, gives them no credentials to lead in any way what so ever.

Insurance agents and realtors are not necessarily able to handle the challenges of day-to-day city government.

Ex TV cameramen are also politically challenged.

The only person on the council that seems to have the ability and intelligence to handle the challenge’s is a business man.

He deals in printing and stationary and has a level business head.

The rest of them are too busy pontificating and posturing for their self aggrandisement to do the serious work that is their responsibility.

I sincerely hope that some responsible business men and women will challenge the clowns when election time rolls around.

And for God’s sake do not even begin to consider one of them to vote for ever again, (I shiver at the thought, if one runs for mayor!)

Lets put some real, honest diversity and intelligence in office next time the elections roll around.

Talk to people you know and respect, who would have nothing to gain but the satisfaction

of knowing everyone in Alexandria’s interest would be looked after. (Not just their vested interest.)

Lets get some fresh faces in city government without clown makeup on.

I feel like a poor small dog trying to bite  an elephants ass..

But that’s the way I feel.

Alex

House Minority Leader  Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, pictured standing, far  right, speaks while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert,  D-Milford and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, D-Bridgeport, play solitaire Monday night as the House convened to vote on a  new budget. (AP)

The guy sitting in the row in front of these two…  he’s on Facebook, and the guy behind Hennessy is checking out the baseball scores.

Pretty well speaks for its self.

I do not have time to play solitaire in my normal day-to-day activities…

I am considering running for office…..(not)

Alex

It has been several days since the City Council Food fiasco started.

A good newspaper would have put a reporter on the story the moment they got wind of it.

I fondly remember when the old Town Talk would have been on it like a swarm of bees.

Todays top story.

 Two Baptist Churches swap buildings. (Front Page Story)

A number of the old reporters were friends of mine.

They loved to get story like the city council’s extravagance.

Even a rumor would get them in gear.

I invite you to keep track of the major local stories they run. (Sports and Local meetings do not count)

Most of what the Town Talk print’s  is AP or other national feature canned story’s of generic nature.

A good paper can survive and flourish if it concentrates on what it was started for in the beginning…local news…

Will they pick up on the food expense story?

Let’s  start counting the days.

Untill then, the only real reporting I see is from the internet media.

And dare I say, a few of them are  silent?

Alex

Normally I will not steal other bloggers story’s but in this case, the more that know about it the better.

All of the credit go’s to Greg  Aymond of Central La. Politics..

He made the request for the records and I understand,  had to pay for them..

I tip my top hat to this gentleman for his diligence!

Some of the meals cost need explaining.

Look at the hot dog and hamburger bill of  June 18, 2009.

Link to receipts obtained from city by Greg. (below)

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=14283528

Something smells, I dont think its rotten food. Or is it?

Follow the story in-depth on link to Central La. Politics on the right of my column.

Gotta give him thumb’s up on this one!

Alex

P.S.

Mr. Mayor…

Greg broke the food gate story…NOT KALB TV.

I attended the Vintage Photograph Exhibit put together by the Louisiana History Museum and the LSUA Art Department last week.

The exhibit is in the Student Union Building on the right side facing the building, with a parking lot across the street. Easy to get to.

Museum Director Dale Genius put the display together from Louisiana History Museum archive photo’s, with the help of Prof. Roy deVille of the LSUA Art Department.

There are over 40 vintage photographs on display. It is free to the public and will run through about the middle of December.

Vintage Photographs of Alexandria.

It is well worth the time to drive out to LSUA and  view this exhibit of photographs.

For those of you who grew up in the 1940–70’s period, it will bring back a lot of memories.

For those of you who are younger,you will see what we once had here in Alexandria that is now gone.

Replaced by vacant lots and parking areas.

Because I believe in Historic Preservation, I give it 5 stars!

Alex

I was thinking about this yesterday. The proposed health care bill is almost 2000 pages long.

Our Constitution was written and signed on one page.

Something is really, really wrong with the world we live in today.

Yet, no one seems to give a damn.

Are we going to wake up, or just roll over and let this continue to happen?

The latter, it seems.

Am I the only one that feels like I just bought a ticket for a cruise on the Titanic?

Alex

Overall I think our Mayor runs a fairly tight ship. He seems to hold up his side of the table. I am sure he has his moments of inattention.

Actually, I sometimes think he tries too hard to please. 

 There are two members of the council that are able to cope.

Frankly the balance of our city council are incompetent at best.

Let’s take up a collection and send all of our council members to some type of school where they will be taught to read and perhaps be  given an injection of common sense.

It’s one thing to be self-serving, but most of these clowns have developed that trait to a fine art.

Wow, I have held my observations for quite some time, but, for God’s sake some of you intelligent citizens,

blessed with a little common sense… please speak up!!

All of you City Council members, please quit bitching and bragging and help us out..

Please focus on  the business that need’s to be done for the city it’s self and not on your pet self-serving  wasteful vote getting projects!

Work with the Mayor or maybe run away and join the circus…

They need more clowns!!

Alex

Over 200 people added to the unemployment line on Dec. 15.  See Town Talk story.

http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20091022/NEWS01/91022012/

What is there to say? I hope some of the employees saw it coming.

It will be a economic shock to Pineville and Central La.

The side effects will hurt a lot of small business’s that supply the plant.

Its a trickle down effect.

Sad.

Alex