The Monroe City Council approved a special agreement with Rep. Micheal Echols to allow him to use up to $2.5 million of future sales taxes on a hotel he plans to build downtown. Every African-American speaker that addressed the subject…
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Four years later, Mayo’s “Forever” water rate increase still hurts
If you haven’t noticed it, the city of Monroe has been silently increasing the costs of water for residents and businesses, even though its cost to produce the water has not increased significantly. In 2018, the Mayo administration passed an…
Should Council’s ban on help for private businesses apply to Echols’ hotel?
Next week the Monroe City Council will be asked to approve a special deal between the City of Monroe and Rep. Micheal Echols that will be worth millions of dollars. At its council meeting last week, the council voted to…
Decision to house state’s most violent offenders at Swanson is bad idea
It’s official, the state’s most violent juvenile offenders will be housed in the Swanson Juvenile facility in Monroe. The legislature approved SB323, a bill that will set up a tiered system of housing inmates, routing the most…
Is domestic abuse less violent than other violence, or is it “man thing?”
Domestic Violence is increasing and the problem is not getting better, but instead seems to be getting worse. Somehow, society, in general, doesn’t view domestic violence with the same seriousness that it views other kinds of violence. …
SEDD has huge task to raise $500 million over next 25 years to fund plan
The first phase of the Southside Economic Development District’s 25 year plan was approved Tuesday night, but there is a long journey between Tuesday night and its completion in 2047. Tuesday night the council approved the big picture or the…
Buffalo massacre another example of “Pure Evil” being unleashed nationwide
We have seen it before but it seems to be increasingly worse as evil increasingly raises its deadly head. Senseless murders, shooting sprees, drive-bys and assaults are increasing all over the country. What happened last week in Buffalo…