Bill White's Selective Memory

Fellow blogger Bernie O'Hare and I don't talk much, but when we do, we usually wonder who is the bigger bastard? Bernie is often accused of having favorite people who can do no harm, nobody accuses me of that. What brings on today's rant is Bill White's column yesterday.

White gets nostalgic for the closing Morning Call offices at 6th and Linden. He recalls the pride when the reporters covered the trial of former mayor Pawlowski so efficiently. That's funny, because I recall the decade of Pawlowski's corruption which they silently missed.  Bill also doesn't mention their windfall from the NIZ. The Morning Call building was included in the district, although across the street, and now is the property of the NIZ baron J.B. Reilly.

I appreciate the local articles, and the job done by the reporters, but I'm too much of a bastard to let White get away with whitewashing the paper. They have repressed news of numerous shenanigans by local sacred cows they have chosen to protect.

Pictured above is Wehr's Dam.  There is an active conspiracy in motion to circumvent the citizen's referendum to keep the dam, and demolish it anyway, to accommodate the Wildlands Conservancy.  Although I provided proof to the Morning Call that the Wildlands is communicating back channel with the State to that end,  Morning Call editor Mike Miorelli refuses to print the story.  However, Mike did hire Bill back to write his puff column.

Building or no building, business and censorship as usual at The Morning Call.

photocredit:Gregg Obst