An EDITORIAL by John Estridge At the last Brookville Town Council meeting, while the people in the crowd, in a decidedly fruitless endeavor, were trying to get BTC President Curtis Ward to admit there had never been a feasibility study for annexation – even after he told the taxpayers at each meeting for month after …
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EDITORIAL Brookville residents it is now up to you: Stop the insanity or continue to be sheeple
An Editorial by John Estridge I attended my first Brookville Town Council meeting in person – since I started working on Tuesday nights — Tuesday night, August 10. My goal was to write several articles about the meeting. I really wanted to write those articles. However, at least in the Old School Journalism – what …
EDITORIAL Open letter to Curtis and Brooke
By John Estridge Dear Curtis and Brooke How are you? I am doing fine. Well, I have done better. It seems like I was having a much better time living here in Brookville before you, Curtis, became a president, and you, Brooke, became a vice president or male dictator and female dictator. Really, what is …
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No one can hear BTC members; who cares? BTC continues to operate in secret and flaunts it because the public apparently does not care
EDITORIAL by John Estridge The new town hall the citizens of Brookville are going to get come hell or high water, and we have had a bunch of high water lately, and regardless whether anyone, much less a majority of town taxpayers want it, was briefly discussed at the Brookville Town Council July 13 meeting. …
BTC members are making strides in the right direction but at least one person seems to still have problems with that pesty state law, the Open Door Law (AN EDITORIAL)
AN EDITORIAL BY THE FIRED EDITOR JOHN ESTRIDGE My Long Suffering Wife Ruth and I were on vacation this past week, visiting what should have been warmer climates. Thus, I could not view the March 23 Brookville Town Council meeting until Thursday night, March 25. Let me say right off, I must express my gratitude …
Information and Editorial on the proposed funding for the proposed Brookville Town Hall
An Editorial and Information Column by John Estridge, the Fired Editor This is just for informational purposes on the proposed new town hall in Brookville. And I guess I have to put this under an editorial status because it includes my opinions on some different topics. I plan to do an article on the proposed …
An editorial concerning Brookville Town Council’s muzzling of taxpayers participation at meetings
An editorial by John Estridge Most governmental entities in the country, state and especially in the Whitewater Valley encourage active public participation. It is because of the public, those who sit on town councils, county councils, county commissions and other elected offices, are there. And those people who are elected to the entities spend the …