Just Another 5-Star Week!

By Thornton Crowe

What began with a bang as the blizzard snow still hung around like a house guest overstaying his welcome, the City's never-ending drama creation machine was in full throttle during the week.

It started out with the City making some unreasonable demands on many citizens. Either shovel your sidewalks, even though they've plowed 3'+ off the roads onto your sidewalk or risk being fined. Remember the fines went up due to the need to finance the big Folk Festival!

Considering the elderly population is ever-growing, not an easy demand to be met when one can't even walk outside without a walker, cane or wheelchair. Furthermore, many elders have fixed incomes based on Social Security; therefore, just paying someone is not an option.

As if this weren't enough to add salt to wound, we move to the tidbit about the Downtown renovation project where the City is now seen as a bad risk for construction companies. Contaminated soil drove the cost up way beyond the original budget; however, because many at City Hall now were not born before the Seventies, it's no shocker they didn't know there was a gas station on almost every corner downtown in the Fifties and Sixties. It should come as a no-brainer that gas stations contaminate the soil in their immediate areas because their tanks leak. There's no getting around it. It is what it is.

The City Hall gang doesn't bother themselves with such particulars because to do land studies or researching archaic records, because it tasks one to actually dig through paper records. Perish the thought! All those paper cuts are simply too horrifying to endure.

Corrado Construction, as mention in the Salisbury News article, has left the project but not before allegedly filing a lawsuit (as per abovementioned article) against the City for not paying for work already completed.** Why is this not a surprise to many local residents, privy to the kid government machinations? Well, it would seem right on par with all the other clown-car rubbish we've witnessed here in "Da Bury" for a long time.

Bear in mind, they're not recklessly spending monopoly money here, folks. This money is coming out of YOUR pockets. This means you can't afford to buy your kid the GI Joe with the Kung Fu grip because the kids running City Hall don't know blip one about business, money management or how to price out a seemingly simple project.

You may ask, "What will the City do now that the Downtown is half tore up?"

Good question which will surely add yet more drama to another fun-filled week down the road. However, for now, we can thank the city for not disappointing our never-ending fascination for governmental drama this week -- and that's in addition to the 10" snow pile up. 

Thanks for the memories!

TC NOTE: ** Maryland Caseseach reveals no current filing against the City of Salisbury. The only two cases are closed from 2011 and 2012 in Dorchester County, citing Corrado Construction as Plaintiffs on record at this time.