In what's almost becoming a regular feature for me to write about, Jack Ford's weekly column for Sojourner's Truth is out. I don't always agree with him but I find his point of view interesting and at times very informative.
This week he writes about the power of a name, "Brown" being one mentioned yet I couldn't help noticing one Brown that was not mentioned...It's also very clear that there are a few candidates he supports, Barbara Sykes being one of them.
The recent flooding is also touched on, where he asks:
Should the City of Toledo have settled with the Federal EPA and picked Black and Veatch long before 2002? The EPA litigation ran on for 11 years – one of the longest running federal-city court battles in the nation up to that time.
Had it been settled around 1990 or 1991, the work would have been completed and the flooding, even with seven inches of rain in a few days, would not have been as damaging.
Someone should ask why Point Place did not have massive flooding this time?
For those new to this particular part of the discussion, this might be helpful.
John McHugh was the Mayor of Toledo until 1993...The City was under the City Manager form of government at that time. It's interesting to me to look back at the 1991 election - Paula Pennypacker was John McHugh's opponent and a few of those who ran for Toledo City Council at that time who's name will sound familiar...Ferner, Finkbeiner, Ford, Kaczala, Pietrykowsk, and Stainbrook.
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Point Place usually gets flooded when there is high water AND rain. And that occurs when there are strong N-NE-E winds which raise the lake level. The storms that came through were from the westerly direction and the water was pretty low during them.
High water levels cause sump pumps in PP basements to go off regardless of rain. I'm not saying that the improvements didn't help, but I'm not sure that these storms were good examples to use.
Waterville Dem, I guess we will have to agree to disagree on the value of Jack's opinions. To me they have value because there are quite a few people in this area that hold him in respect and I find what he writes raises questions and/or a perspective that others probably have as well.
Maggie, I do know of a few people who experienced some basement issues in Point Place during some of the storms. It wasn't as destructive as what other parts of Toledo experienced. You raised a very good point that the lake wasn't rising.
Jack Ford was not a very good political candidate, was not a good political strategist
True, true. I wonder if he ignored the political advice given to him during that campaign.
I attended one of his neighborhood get-togethers last August and, after listening to his canned talk [without expression or enthusiasm] I said to him point blank, "Mr. Mayor, you have to become more aggressive in getting your message out." He said to me, "All of this information was in the local media." To which I replied, "Perhaps it was, but it needs to be said again with more passion."
He never changed the look on his face and said, "Any other questions?"
His style killed him, probably not his handlers.
Barbara Sykes
Any relations to Larry Sykes?
According to what Jack wrote and what I have read? No.
Lisa,
"For those new to this particular part of the discussion, this might be helpful."
This site cracked me up.
The first two pictures on the right side were obviously captioned and proof read by some very clueless people.
The top one (despite the caption) is the water intake and the second is NOT an intake, but is a dewatering facility.
A D- for these two boo boos...
But, an A- for the grins.
Sorry HT, I didn't even look at the pictures I was just using the text portion as something I thought would be helpful.
:-)
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