What Did I Miss...


and Where Are We Going??


In Saturday's edition of the Journal-Gazette, there was a REALLY disturbing article about how the MLK Montessori school was moving to another location. Now that wasn't "new" news, as I heard they were getting better "digs", but the REASON CITED in the paper was extremely bothersome to me (as it would be to ANY normal taxpayer)... They said they were moving to MAKE ROOM FOR THE HARRISON SQUARE PROJECT (aka "COSTAPLENTY FIELD"). Now will someone PUH-LEASE tell me when this whole "white mastodon" became a signed, sealed and delivered (I'm Yours) DONE DEAL???

I heard, as well as read that it was a PRO-PO-SAL...that to ME says it's in a PLANNING STAGE (I did study architectural drafting for several years in a former lifetime and DO know the difference). I didn't see ANYTHING "set in stone". Moses hasn't come down from the mountain with THE LAW (as of today)....yet.

So who is lying their collective asses off to whom? Where did all this WOOL come from that is suddenly covering my eyes?

Yeah...the city is GOING AHEAD and buying up ALL the properties in the area "ear-marked" for COSTAPLENTY FIELD....like they're going to break freaking ground NEXT damn week. I didn't see ONE SINGLE THING about ANY public hearings, taking this to the people, or anything else related to what "WE" think or have to say on the matter. So where does the city (and the county) suddenly become SO frigging PRESUMPTUOUS as to ASSUME we're ALL fine, dandy, and OK with having this monstrosity placed where a majority of the people don't want it, or feel it's not even needed in the first place? And get this...the city has met with the new owners of the Wizards as well (I guess to tell them we're pushing this through, screw the taxpayers).

We haven't even gotten to a fixed amount for the FWCS's "Dr. Evil $500 million taxpayer hostage" deal, and yet the city is shoving this down our pieholes and up our alimentary canals. Man, I was wondering WHY my hemorhoids were acting up. Now I know.

Oh yes, there definitely ARE drugs coming into Fort Wayne...and I KNOW who's getting dibs of the "good shit" first! I would LOVE to know what the hell these people are smoking, and also WHERE they can find a PLACE to smoke it (with the "ban" almost everywhere)???

Every poll you see taken regarding this stadium complex ends up with the SAME consensus....the vast majority of the people DON'T WANT IT......they just DO NOT SEE the reason for doing as other cities do, playing "Keeping up with the Joneses", when we have a LOT more immediate problems, concerns, and issues to address, that will most likely wind up on a LOT of "back burners". We haven't seen ANY "other" plans for downtown Fort Wayne...probably because the city "despots" have shelved any ideas that run COUNTER to this stadium complex. They don't want anything to run contrary to THEIR "master plan"...and we know every single one of them (downtown) HAS an agenda, none with OUR names on it (as in helping the citizens).

There is ALREADY a Botanical Garden, art museum, Lincoln museum, Grand Wayne Center ($$$ tied up with that "moving"), as well as the NEWLY RENOVATED library. This new complex will ADD several HUNDRED hotel rooms...hell, they can't even FILL the ones currently available. Maybe it's the drug dealing, prostitution and other illegal activity IN those hotels that keeps people away...'ya think? I guess the city would much rather lose whatever quaint facade they still mainatin for what "everyone else" is doing to THEIR downtown.....failing miserably for decades to come...all at OUR (increasing) expense. Sorry, not gonna buy into this fiasco...not UNTIL I see some progress in MY part of town...BIG progress...and quickly!

And part of that revitalization would be to start putting MORE DECENT PEOPLE in houses avaliable on the SOUTH SIDE of town...the realtors should STOP selling people away from this area. THAT'S the main reason we find ourselves in the state we currently "enjoy"(?) with crime, noise and all the other fun things we have to endure.

Every year, thanks to outsourcing, closures, mergers, and layoffs, we lose more and more TAX-PAYING people on the city's "honor roll", and what do we wind up with in its place? We get welfare families (of the 5th generation by now), drug dealers, hookers, criminals, and illegal aliens. Sounds like a fantastic basis for another Detroit...doesn't it? The burden of MORE taxation is resting on a LOT FEWER shoulders these days (..."kinda 'splains all that annexation crap...don't it?"). The city has to suck in MORE square miles of area to counter the lack of a viable tax base. And you, my friends in Aboite (and possibly as far out as Woodburn, Leo, Grabill, and Harlan within a few years) are "footing the bill" (or soon will be), as it were.

Just goes to show what can happen when we "miss a memo" (or two)...or even turn our heads away from these pompous fools for ONE DAMN SECOND.

It's not a pretty picture, but then again, who among them is THAT photogenic?