Bad deal for Jefferson County taxpayers
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2009
Jefferson County homeowners, dairy farmers and small businesses will pay the price in higher taxes to subsidize tax breaks for developers of the Galloo Island Wind Farm under the terms of a tax agreement worked out with the Jefferson County Industrial Development Agency.
.[Watertown Times]
5 comments:
The WDT was writing some good editorials way back when.
The WDT used to write some good articles before the developers and politicians "Got to them".
They were obviously told to avoid writing negatively about wind matters.
I can't blame the paper so much as the owner. I would say that all of those who work on the paper contribute to the obfuscation simply by doing what they're told, however. I suppose there's no real code of ethics in journalism anymore either. Just repeat what the corporations want to be said. Should they all just quit working for the paper? That might be the best thing. Not that anyone wants to be out of work. It's like being a doctor who isn't allowed to work on anyone with no health insurance. You have to pay to play. I just don't buy newspapers. They get enough money to write propaganda.
I cannot say any of this is a surprise. I was rather taken aback one day a few years ago when I heard Mayor Graham say casually on his radio show that the newpaper did not report that a local car dealer was not paying off vehicle tradeins per contract of customers that bought new cars because the dealer was a big advertiser. What surprised me even more was that when he, the mayor said this noone even seemed to mind or notice, and I saw he was even reelected. I is almost like dishonesty here is so common that it is accepted. Beyond sad.
Three years after Watertown Mayor Jeffrey E. Graham surrendered his bar's Quick Draw license to avoid a state lottery investigation, the permitting agency has decided to give it back.
~~~~
Mr. Graham argued in a letter that, among other things, his decisive victory in the last mayoral race and an endorsement during that campaign by the Watertown Daily Times were grounds for reinstatement.
~~~
Intellectual Clone
Supervisor Reinbeck stated that while he did not have anything legal to back up his assumption, he thought that once someone accused of having a conflict of interest was re-elected to the same position, the conflict of interest was void.
Post a Comment