Town and Country

My neighborhood got together Tuesday to fight for the peace and serenity we've come to expect. The city had plans to extend our street to a busy loop and also build a 290 unit apartment complex and retail area. Traffic estimates would have been from the average 200 cars a day now to 700 plus! I'm so glad that our city council sided with its citizens and helped us maintain our neighborhood. Thanks!

The council also voted to give a sweet severance package to the former city manager, almost 500k to not work. I would've not worked for much less and I've never heard of a contract that pays you a year plus salary plus benefits etc for getting FIRED, not laid off. I think the citizens will be watching more closely when the next one is hired to make sure the city doesn't get entangled in such a ridiculous contract.

Immigration Bill - FIX IT! - Simply enforce the laws we have. Quit paying for studies on cow farts and start paying for border security. You can come to this country legally, I have a family member that immigrated here legally and now is a home owning, business owning, tax paying member of our country. We need to make it unprofitable to work illegally, for the business - fines. We need to educate workers that when you are "paid under the table" you are actually getting screwed, no benefits, low pay, you can rarely qualify for credit, especially a home. Also, if they can pay a "coyote" thousands of dollars to put their life in danger and sneak across the border, Uncle Sam could come up with some immigration plan to stop that. We could, if Mexico allows set up immigration centers there, similar to embassies, to handle streamlined paperwork, background checks, collect fees for a license to work in the US and educate the immigrant workers the laws, regs. etc. that we require to be part of the worker program. The same could be done here in the US for the workers already here. But one thing should be made very clear, The US will not allow illegal workers, if you don't get your papers, you don't work!