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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR #1: CITY HALL SALARIES

For those who may have missed them the first time or to reintroduce them to those who saw them previously, I offer some of my more important letters I wrote to the editors of the Whitehall News. This one, a … Continue reading

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A RIGHTFUL INDICTMENT OF YOUR REPRESENTATIVES ON WHITEHALL CITY COUNCIL.

What good is it to have free speech to redress your governmental representatives over grievances within government if they make a concerted effort to not listen in the first place? For example, here is a list that, as a citizen, … Continue reading

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WHY WHITEHALL’S GOVERNANCE IS SO AWFUL AND BROKEN

Looking at campaign financial reports as submitted by various of our elected officials, I was able to retrieve a few, and so I poured over them to see and consider the patterns they contained. By the time I went to … Continue reading

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THE ARGUMENT AGAINST MAYOR MAGGARD’S ENDORSEMENTS

Whitehall Mayor Kim Maggard has posted endorsements she’s received from various government officials. This is done to give the appearance, to the casual observer who has not been paying attention down at City Hall, that she has gravitas and the … Continue reading

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WHITEHALL OHIO: THE CITY OF “NO!”

Mayor John Wolfe was quoted as saying about Whitehall, “You don’t become the next Upper Arlington by just dreaming big”. I’m sure, as an authoritarian, he meant the kind of place that is regulated and controlled to an inch of … Continue reading

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THE PETTY TYRANNY OF WHITEHALL CODE ENFORCEMENT Part One

Last week I was alerted to a neighbor on Maplewood Avenue being hounded again by our local Code Enforcement department. This is a senior citizen, a veteran and long-time Whitehall resident (not the 1st one this has happened to). A … Continue reading

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MY POSITIONS: #2 POLICE/CRIME/SAFETY

Growing up in Whitehall in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s the prevalent crime was drunk driving, teen drug use and petty stuff like shoplifting, etc. Occasionally a bigger crime came through like the man who bombed JC Pennys and Zayres … Continue reading

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THE FALLACY OF ‘EXPERIENCE MATTERS’

It seems whenever someone is in office, in order to get themselves re-elected, they shout from the rooftops that it is “EXPERIENCE!!” that matters. Here is how that is not true; Mayor Kim Maggard, Councilpersons Bailey, Conison, Kantor, their supporters … Continue reading

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MY POSITIONS: #1, LEGISLATOR/COUNCILPERSON

“A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law“.- Justice John Marshall LEGISLATOR I believe the legislator’s top two priorities in the people’s government are to safeguard the U.S. Constitution against anyone, inside or outside government, who would undercut … Continue reading

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AN OPEN LETTER TO WHITEHALL CITIZENS

Whitehall is a municipality in Franklin County in the state of Ohio on the North American continent on planet Earth spinning within the Milky Way galaxy surrounded by the vastness of the universe, and while this simple truth puts Whitehall … Continue reading

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