West Burlington IA News-Sports-Opinion

Paved roads, historical emblems of American achievement, are being torn up across rural America and replaced with gravel or other rough surfaces as counties struggle with tight budgets and dwindling state and federal revenue. State money for local roads was cut in many places amid budget shortfalls.

In Michigan, at least 38 of the 83 counties have converted some asphalt roads to gravel in recent years. Last year, South Dakota turned at least 100 miles of asphalt road surfaces to gravel. Counties in Alabama and Pennsylvania have begun downgrading asphalt roads to cheaper chip-and-seal road, also known as “poor man’s pavement.” Some counties in Ohio are simply letting roads erode to gravel.

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Hundreds of residents of one of the poorest municipalities in Los Angeles County shouted in protest last night as tensions rose over a report that the city’s manager earns an annual salary of almost $800,000.

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Falcon:

There is probably so much government waste at Ft. Madison Prison the general public would be shocked should they get the dollar figures.

State government is known for waste upon waste where people earn gross salaries for doing nothing but sitting on their butt’s day in and day out. I heard in the social services department there were so many middle management personnel it was to the point of ridicules; how much money is actually being wasted in the DHS?

The DNR is about as wasteful as any one department could be with one agent getting stopped for drunk driving and then having a driver appointed to haul his or her butt around when he or she lost their drivers license. Again, if the public knew what was going on within Iowa government I would think heads would roll? However; being government everything is shoved under the rug lest the public find out just what goes on behind their backs with the press hiding the facts as reinforcement for their wrong doing.

Our local rag has hidden the facts of what goes on around Burlington with public servants for years now as though these law breakers were some sort of sacred cows. Had the local rag done their job of reporting the local news we probably wouldn’t have such a den of losers running the city as is now the case. By hiding the facts the local paper is just as guilty as the person committing the crime.
Between Burlington and West Burlington we probably have the worst public servants in Iowa along with the most censored newspaper in Iowa. Our paper may be the oldest paper in Iowa but it’s also the most censored and restrictive in Iowa.

-Concerned

Thanks Mediacom. You let us see and hear parts of one of the greatest high school football movies ever. Fortunately most of us can remember " Remember the Titans."

-PC