Fighting City Hall
This isn’t a local story. It’s about a woman in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania who fought a long grueling battle against the local government. She ultimately won, but only after being sued by the mayor, slandered in the local newspaper and almost losing her home from the costs of being sued.
This story might have a few local parallels in terms of, oh, I don’t know, can you think of anything?
This story might have a few local parallels in terms of, oh, I don’t know, can you think of anything?
posted by Tom Harper at 6:50 PM
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Can I think of anything? So many things that it makes even my brain hurt.
Actually, I'm walking away from a lot of it, you folks work on that problem, I have better things to do.
Like many other wise people I think that this country is broken and failing and can't be fixed until after it does fail so that it can reinvent itself in wiser ways.
Hey, from the git go America was just an experiment, and they got it wrong.
I'm getting back to my inventing I got away from after moving here, if I'm going to help make the world a better place it will be through that path.
More than a million wait in icy darkness across US.….. You’ll never see me do that. I have my backups, even though some folks think I’m a stupid country hick.
If the power goes out here for some time it won't be hard to find me. I'll be that stupid hick on the east side in a warm place with a light in the window.
Drop in for a hot bowl of soup, I'll turn a bucket over for you to sit on.
You can go next door and tell Helen your risque jokes, she loves them and is the sweetest old lady.
Just don't expect to be impressed with her home, she lived through the great depression and still lives that way.
If she has a real plate I have never seen it. But she can make a paper plate last for a month or two.
I'm not sure she has a fork, but she does have a butter knife and spoon.
And she has helped so many others over the years at great expense to her own comfort. Yet is always so cheerful.
It's no wonder that I compare other women to her, and choose to live without one of them.
Didn't say I like living alone, I don't. But I know that I can't live with an empire builder so I do.
Crap, just had a brain fart and lost my train of thought.
Well, back to my inventing, let me know when you folks get that other mess cleaned up.
Well, back to my inventing, let me know when you folks get that other mess cleaned up.
Ha ha ha. Sorry, but I find that very amusing.
I guess this is a warning to let the Port Angeles caliphs do whatever they want and stay out of their way, or else.
Blah, blah, blah, blahbitty-blah-blah = BBC
LOL...BBC is such a self-important old fart.
The weirdest thing about that article was that the mayor of Wilkes-Barre was up for re-election during that whole scandal. And he won. Sheesh. What a bunch of dunces must live in that town.
I have a friend in Joyce with a computerized sign making machine if anyone wants help with signs.
LIKE THIS SIGN
Liz, everyone thinks they are self important. And the people I help damn sure think I'm important.
Oh, I won't publish my friends email address, but anyone wanting a sign can contact me.
Believe me, you do not want to send him an email so that he has your email address, he never fucking stops whining about everything.
Being as I said that I would leave it up to you folks to take care of that mess, I guess I think that you are important also. Make me proud now.
I've heard that if you go up against any of the local power brokers, you'll find a group of official inspectors coming to your home or place of business. And they're guaranteed to "discover" a few code violations, for which you'll be heavily fined and/or driven out of business.
I've heard that if you go up against any of the local power brokers, you'll find a group of official inspectors coming to your home or place of business.
They stay away from me, they know what is good for them and that it isn't good to cross me.
Besides, there is nothing on my place that is unhealthy, it just looks like crap. It's unhealthy things like lots of old cars and garbage and such that they are mostly concerned about.
In the county anyway. I'm not sure what it is like in the city limits and I have no intention of finding out.
If the city powers its way out here I'm frigging moving. I don't get along well with those morons.
You'd move, Billy? Really?
One can only hope the city does make a power grab for that section of the county!
There was a small earthquake? I didn't notice it.
Not to concerned, this old building is very stout, has 4X4 studs, a three inch thick wood floor and I reinforced the roof when I gutted it out and redid it.
It was built during the depression but who ever built it must have worked in a sawmill to get such solid materials.
If a big one hits I think I'll be fine and won't need any help. It pays to be prepared.
Got lots of food, water, backup heat and power, blah blah blah.
Anonymous said...You'd move, Billy? Really?
It's possible that I would move to just to get away from a moron like you.
But I hate moving so won't unless I have to. My place is free and clear other than the property taxes.
If I do move it will be to a smaller town, now get your ass back to work to support this screwed up town, you fool.
Anyone notice, that crooked sleazebag mayor of Wilkes-Barre, Tom Leighton, is a former real estate agent. WTF is it about real estate agents going into local politics?
Most members of congress are lawyers. I guess most local politicians are real estate agents.
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