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Madd Max 
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Posted on: Dec. 05 2004,11:00 pm |
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I like the idea of Liberal being our next Mayor; we need someone in there that will shake City Hall to its foundation. Some one that believes that government is to be, buy the people, of the people and for the people. Not just a few dictating their will on upon the masses.
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Expatriate
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Posted on: Dec. 06 2004,9:33 am |
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Well Lib at least your honest enough to admit you have faults, that puts you a rung above most government officials.
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Montyman
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Posted on: Dec. 08 2004,8:48 pm |
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I say OK if Lib professes conservatism---after all, we must cut that budget folks
MM
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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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MrTarzan
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Posted on: Dec. 20 2004,12:06 am |
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I would vote for you Liberal. I would vote for you even if there was someone other than Jean to vote for too. Your arguments are usually well thought out, showing your intellegence, and well written, speaking well of your education. You would make a good mayor because of your passion, and though I disagree with you on many national political thoughts, you have been on the money locally more often than not. It would take quite an opponent to win my vote away from you, like maybe JimHanson 
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Be not simply good, be good for something-Henry David Thoreau
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Truth
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Posted on: Dec. 20 2004,4:34 am |
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I un nominate
him.
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pete
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Posted on: Dec. 20 2004,9:56 pm |
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Has anyone heard about Fjelsted being part of a deal to buy the city land on Pickeral Lake?
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Nose for News
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Posted on: Dec. 20 2004,10:18 pm |
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| Quote (pete @ Dec. 20 2004,9:56,pm) | | Has anyone heard about Fjelsted being part of a deal to buy the city land on Pickeral Lake? |
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Last week the Tribune ran a story about the port authority property out on Pickerel lake.
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The Albert Lea Port Authority discussed selling land to the north of Pickerel Lake to developers during its meeting Tuesday.
The land, spanning approximately 165 acres, was previously owned by Bertha Weiks and was purchased by the city for $328,000 in 1998. Since the purchase, the land has been rented out for cropland. It is now estimated to be worth $525,000 to $600,000.
With their purchase of the acreage, the city intended to sell it for residential purposes.
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The story went on to list the options but but never said anything about who rents the farm land now or how much they pay for it. That got me wondering if that wasn't the land that Roger Bok is always asking about. So after asking around I found out that the person that rents the land is County Commissioner Mark Behrends and he pays $80 an acre for it.
Right after that story the Tribune ran the story about Springborg's resignation but never mentioned that he resigned as a county commissioner to take a job as a jailer in the jail he voted to build.
That's two stories in just over a weeks time where the Tribune has left out parts of the story out that would have shed a bad light on local government and if that wasn't bad enough they run an editorial on Sunday that says
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In that one sentence she summed up the entire problem with the Albert Lea Tribune. They need to quit trying to decide what's "nice" news and just print the whole story let the people decide for themselves otherwise we'll continue to have problems no matter how optimistic we are.
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ICU812
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Posted on: Dec. 21 2004,7:57 am |
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| Quote | | Has anyone heard about Fjelsted being part of a deal to buy the city land on Pickeral Lake? |
I know one of the guys involved in developing the land out there, dont know if Fjelstad is involved or not. Would it matter if he was? If he abstained from voting, and was not getting a cheaper price on it because of being on the "inside", would it be wrong for him to participate? Just asking, I dont support or oppose. I would be against it if it were illegal for him to be involved, but dont know that either. I am however all for getting more developments going in this town.
You could also go to freeborncounty.com and ask him directly, I bet he would answer promptly too.
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MrTarzan
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Posted on: Dec. 21 2004,9:16 am |
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When will the scandals end? The commissioner cannot rent property from the same government he is serving with. What is going on around here? Is this whole town asleep at the wheel? I think that this should be a whole new thread. Nose for News, I don't know who you are, but it is nice to have you out there digging. You find amazing things that the Tribune should be finding. Do you know if Behrends was renting the same land when it was purchased, or only after? Was he all ready in office?
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pete
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Posted on: Dec. 21 2004,10:17 pm |
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Not sure he should be excluded, but it does raise questions. If he is involved, or will be, he should be exempting himself from votes and should stay off the port board. Behrends should be held to the same standard.
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