Carolyn and I were together for 50 years. She was my best friend, fieriest critic and always had my back. We traveled the world together, dove in exotic places and lived a life many would envy. Anyone who knew Carolyn did not forget her. Carolyn, who some called CA, never understood the argument of women’s rights. She was part of women’s lib before there was a women's lib. She could curse like a sailor and do manual labor with the best of them.
Fly Creek residents are now seeing more mud coming into the creek due to infrastructure failures. The Publix project started the damage by dumping tons of mud into the creek. Then came the fly creek apartments that no one wanted except Mayor Kant, Jack Burrell and the City Council. Now all the predictions are coming true AGAIN. Highway 98 shoulder on the south side over fly creek has caved in, dumping tons of dirt into the creek.
Let me make one thing perfectly clear, I am pro police. Police are a necessary. Police are responsible to the public, they work for the public. What gives police a bad name are a few officers that think they must use lethal force, when it is not necessary. Firearm training for police teaches how to kill not wound and to many officers are to damn quick on the draw. Sheriff Hoss Mack requested $600,000.00 from the County Commission for cameras, body, vehicle and jail. His sales pitch was this would provide transparency and accountability for the public. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Sheriff Mack has made it a policy of NOT providing camera footage to the media or public.
The infrastructure failures in Fairhope are directly connected to Jack Burrell and his lackeys. Doesn’t it make you feel more confident knowing Jack is “speaking for the people of Baldwin County.” Jack is all for the toll’s and “increasing the county’s soaring population”. Just what we need while infrastructure failures and sewage in the bay are daily occurrences. Interested firms meet with ALDOT, begin competing for the Mobile River Bridge and Bayway Project The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) hosted more than 250 people from all aspects of construction, design and engineering at an industry forum for the Mobile River Bridge and Bayway
Here are “some examples” of how a Baldwin County, Get Out of Jail Card, has helped, mostly politicians, AVOID any transparency or accountability. “I am pleased with the decision of the Baldwin County District Attorney’s office and the District Court to dismiss this wrongfully brought charge against me in the interest of justice and judicial economy.” BEN REYNOLDS, MOBILE CITY COUNCILMAN Ben is lucky he was in a county that has Get out of Jail Passes.
Do you really want to know what is going on with Baldwin County Schools. Well just check out the face book page below, they do an excellent job of breaking down your tax dollars that are pouring into the coffers of BCBOE. BALDWIN COUNTY CITIZENS For GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY (CGA) David Peterson FYI: August, 2022 Sales/Use Tax paid to Baldwin County and Gulf Shores BOE. We are now in the eleventh month of fiscal year 2022 and the Sales/Use Tax proceeds continue to far exceed expectations. For any of our new members, each month I post the amount of Sales/Use Tax paid by the Baldwin County Commission to these two school boards. This tax is collected by the Baldwin County Commission, (3 cents on each dollar spent), and this is the portion of that tax (2.4 cents on each taxable dollar spent) distributed to the BCBOE and GSBOE. This does not include any property or other taxes collected and distributed to the boards as a source of local funding. The amount collected and paid to the Baldwin County Board of Education for the month of August, 2022 totals $14,528,106.21. For the first eleven months of fiscal year 2022 the total amount paid to the BCBOE totals $130,888,985.70, this reflects and increase of $12,825,094.51 over the 2021 payments for the same time frame. (Fiscal year 2022 begins on October 1, 2021 and ends on September 30,2022.) All of this local funding remains in Baldwin County and is not dispersed to any other school systems (equity funding) in the State like our property tax is.
The article below omitted some issues, that may have been problematic for Al.com to print. So let me fill ya in on some details. Baldwin County Sewer Service is the only privately operated sewer service in Alabama. They are unregulated and have been given permission to use county right of ways at no charge. Baldwin County Sewer Service has nothing to do with Baldwin County government. Many people believe this is a county entity. It is very misleading and I am sure it was meant to be.
He has done it again. The Ripp Report has predicted numerous times that Ronan McSharry would continue his intoxication fueled assaults on women. The Paula DiNardi case ended up being an example of just how bad the municipal court and the municipal attorney are in Fairhope. Mr McSharry has assaulted yet another woman, racking up his ninth arrest, all involving alcohol. This would not have happened except for the failing of the city attorney, Marcus McDowell. It should also be noted councilman Jack Burrell is best friends of McSharry. The city council did nothing. I do hope the latest victim realizes the failings of the municipal attorney Marcus McDowell. She needs additional council and should sue the city for allowing McSharry’s to continue his drunken rages against women and the city’s responsibility and it’s incompetence in the DiNardi case.
As predicted, Ronin McSharry, owner and operator of McSharry's Irish Pub in Fairhope, Alabama is again charged with Domestic Violence and surrendered to authorities on Friday. Your US Legislature killed a Law that would have required the VA to provide coverage to veterans with cancer who were exposed to toxic burn pits while in The Service. Chris Elliott and Jack Burrell are pimping the $3Billion Mobile Bayway Project, who you gonna trust if not that gaggle? New detail emerge regarding the incentives given to Novell to locate their $2Billion aluminum facility to the Baldwin County Mega Site. One component is that they must create a training facility in the Daphne Technology Park (a disappointment of a project thus far) a long dive from the Mega Site (Cui Bobo). And finally, months after the primary, AL.COM Lagniappe, ECT are finally writing about the train wreck that is our current Attorney General Steve Marshall. And some predictable retaliations from the Alabama State Bar related to a lawsuit against them. Monkey Pox will be on an elevator button near you, soon. And third plague: Trump will soon announce his third run. Strange blood clots have been reported by an Alabama undertaker stating that this is something he has observed in the deceased since the vaccine was administered to the masses. The Baldwin County High School Class of 1992 will be having their reunion tonight at the Holly Hills Country Club in Bay Minette, minus one for sure; thirty years and Generation X have yet to make a dent. Stay tuned.
No one denies that a Mobile bridge is needed. What so obvious is that the politicians have united to make decisions contrary to their original promises. When the no tolls petition hit 50,000 the politicians panicked and started covering their asses. We heard no tolls, no federal money and “we have to listen to our constituents.” The bridge is needed but traffic is second to expanding development, that is the major motivator.
