Archive for April, 2011

Age of America Nears End (2011-4-27)

From the 1890′s until 2016, America was THE world economic power. China will overtake the US in 2016 and we are won’t to make corrections due to lack of REAL leadership. The following article appeared in the Wall Street Journal. (minor edits made) Read this…think about it…worry??? IMF Bombshell: Age of America Nears End by […]

June Council Change (2011-4-26)

I made this suggestion in 2010. Never heard another word. No comment. No feedback. Instead we continue to hold Special meetings every June to get the budget process done. We are fast approaching another Fiscal whirlwind. Anticipation grows for the Special meetings called in June, each year. Already we have seen the Council try to […]

Transparency- Just a catch phrase? (2011-4-8)

I did not create this letter. I just stole it and changed the intended audience. This sat in my DRAFTS file for a year. Some of this has happened, but, one should expect a sweeping change to occur and force all the records to be open and transparent. How often do these elected officials tell […]

Support a Deployed Soldier: Offer Your Landscape Services to a Family in Need (2011-4-4)

GreenCare for Troops is a nationwide outreach program initiated by Project EverGreen that connects participating landscape maintenance professionals and citizen volunteers with families of the men and women away from home serving our country in the Armed Forces. Lawn and landscape maintenance becomes a definite hardship when a military family’s primary breadwinner is on active […]

Blue Star parent (2011-4-4)

I, once again, find myself as a blue star parent. My eldest son has just been activated and will be, after pre-deployment training, posted to Afghanistan. One would like to think his deployment to Kabul will be safe since most of the fighting is South of there. The whole country is a war zone, however. […]