Joe, yesterday (Sunday) I went to the Flea Market Downtown. Been reading about all of the great improvements in the city, now this is just my own thoughts about what I saw. All of the downtown area looks dirty and dingy, sidewalks aren’t finished buildings are dirty, if you are at the flee market turn and look at the multi-purpose building and you will see that it needs a super cleaning has black runs down the sides of the brick all the way across and looks awful.
Main street is still looks terrible with sidewalks still not finished. The newly painted crosswalks look dull and dingy. In the area of Market Street and the hospital it looks like an armed camp with all of the concrete barriers and such. If we have even 15 to 20,000 Visitors we will be in trouble. Seems like the fill that they put in the unfinished parts of the sidewalks would be a serious trip and fall issue not to mention its ugly. These new people that are coming to the event are probably going to be very disappointed.
You have stated the truth it is something we have tried to bring to the Boy Mayor ever since he got us into this and for 3 years! The roads are deplorable, the buildings along Rt 13 are either falling down, neglected, in bad need of repairs and paint. You have multiple tires in stacks or just lying around in parking lots, they stink and they look like junk yards for car cemetaries. There has been plenty of time to think of these things and have gotten the city cleaned up. And the headline was Homeland Security said it should not have been held here, you should have moved onto something else. The mayor needs to get his head out of his ---. He and his supporters are going to look like mega fools, and WBOC will be trying to put lipstick on the pig praising it all.
Well not only will this event make us a back woods laughing stock in the tourism trade. It will also taint us for future economic and manufacturing development with weak local government and infrastructure too pull off a simple event not to mention cater to bringing in JOBS for our own. The Geese have the right idea. SHIT ON IT !
This is not so much a comment about the appearance of downtown, the festival itself. Is it true that the "bucket brigade" is a volunteer group that will walk the festival grounds collecting donations, to basically pay for (or offset the huge financial losses) of the festival? Just trying to understand how it works. The event is of course, advertised as FREE, but if this were true, seems like they are saying "This cost us way too much friggin money and we are trying to recover our losses."
All visitors have to do is take a ride up and down Rt. 13 and know that this is not where they will want to stay. Good thing Ocean City is nearby I guess.
Tom Stevenson can't do anything rightt!! The poor guy should have stuck with a job he actually was good at and qualified to do in the code enforcement department. his incompetence has been exposed at every other job he's been literally handed at the city
Good morning Salisbury news!! I'm ecstatic only two more days until this national folk festival gets started and completed. I truly hope we can get the final tally on just how much money Salisbury loses on this shitstorm. Oh yea "it's happening"
Just wait until the so called out of town visitors hit the rotten smell from the Perdue plant on Rt. 50. This is such a rank smell and they have put up a big tent across the street. Hope this is not for cooking their chicken. We locals puke just having to drive by it on a regular basis. There should be a dunk tank set up for Jake the Flake, Palmer Gillis, Barbara Duncan, Jack Heath, John Cannon, the staff at the Daily Times and the rest of the bunch that think they know how to run the government in this town. We are the laughing stock of the eastern shore. CESSPOOL of the shore. Joe, love, love, love, your blog. You are the best. Tell it like it is.
Mayor Day and the event organizers have bit off more than they can chew. Salisbury was not ready for this. The deadline was agreed to based on false assumptions that all of the (government contracted) improvements would be finished. Since when do any government contractors finish on time? I have no issues with the city promoting any event- just have all your ducks in a row (not geese) before hand. This is a great example of hat happens when you assume....and way too many assumptions were are for the folk festival.
Disappointed and Robbed.
ReplyDeleteYou have stated the truth it is something we have tried to bring to the Boy Mayor ever since he got us into this and for 3 years! The roads are deplorable, the buildings along Rt 13 are either falling down, neglected, in bad need of repairs and paint. You have multiple tires in stacks or just lying around in parking lots, they stink and they look like junk yards for car cemetaries. There has been plenty of time to think of these things and have gotten the city cleaned up. And the headline was Homeland Security said it should not have been held here, you should have moved onto something else. The mayor needs to get his head out of his ---. He and his supporters are going to look like mega fools, and WBOC will be trying to put lipstick on the pig praising it all.
ReplyDeleteYES! I agree! One of the reasons I will never vote for Larry hogan. Clean that building!!
ReplyDeleteWhat does Gov. Hogan have to do with this?
DeleteIt's a state building. They own it. Hogan is governor.
DeleteWell not only will this event make us a back woods laughing stock in the tourism trade. It will also taint us for future economic and manufacturing development with weak local government and infrastructure too pull off a simple event not to mention cater to bringing in JOBS for our own. The Geese have the right idea. SHIT ON IT !
ReplyDeleteI agree. I guess it would be ok if the taxpayers hadn't already dropped a fortune on upgrades.
ReplyDeleteClass action lawsuit against Jake Day needed
ReplyDeleteMaybe the city ran out of money and hoping the festival will bail them out.
ReplyDeleteThis is not so much a comment about the appearance of downtown, the festival itself. Is it true that the "bucket brigade" is a volunteer group that will walk the festival grounds collecting donations, to basically pay for (or offset the huge financial losses) of the festival? Just trying to understand how it works. The event is of course, advertised as FREE, but if this were true, seems like they are saying "This cost us way too much friggin money and we are trying to recover our losses."
ReplyDeleteTry telling a liberal that nothing is free.
ReplyDeleteThis shows the quality of leadership in Salisbury. Visitors will be leaving after one day and not spend money. Will be a total flop.
ReplyDelete5:43pm "robbed" = literally!
ReplyDeleteAll visitors have to do is take a ride up and down Rt. 13 and know that this is not where they will want to stay. Good thing Ocean City is nearby I guess.
ReplyDeleteTom Stevenson can't do anything rightt!! The poor guy should have stuck with a job he actually was good at and qualified to do in the code enforcement department. his incompetence has been exposed at every other job he's been literally handed at the city
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ReplyDeleteBoy Mare is furiously searching Amazon and Ebay for a truckload of Pig Lipstick!
Hopefully, the weather forecast and rainstorms will keep the crowd as low as this farce deserves (that would be zero).
ReplyDeleteGood morning Salisbury news!! I'm ecstatic only two more days until this national folk festival gets started and completed. I truly hope we can get the final tally on just how much money Salisbury loses on this shitstorm. Oh yea "it's happening"
ReplyDeleteJust wait until the so called out of town visitors hit the rotten smell from the Perdue plant on Rt. 50. This is such a rank smell and they have put up a big tent across the street. Hope this is not for cooking their chicken. We locals puke just having to drive by it on a regular basis. There should be a dunk tank set up for Jake the Flake, Palmer Gillis, Barbara Duncan, Jack Heath, John Cannon, the staff at the Daily Times and the rest of the bunch that think they know how to run the government in this town. We are the laughing stock of the eastern shore. CESSPOOL of the shore.
ReplyDeleteJoe, love, love, love, your blog. You are the best. Tell it like it is.
Mayor Day and the event organizers have bit off more than they can chew. Salisbury was not ready for this. The deadline was agreed to based on false assumptions that all of the (government contracted) improvements would be finished. Since when do any government contractors finish on time?
ReplyDeleteI have no issues with the city promoting any event- just have all your ducks in a row (not geese) before hand.
This is a great example of hat happens when you assume....and way too many assumptions were are for the folk festival.
It still amazes me that with all these People flooding Salisbury this weekend that all the hotels have availability for Friday and Saturday night.
ReplyDeleteThunderstorms ALL weekend with high humidity SATURDAY. JAKE DAY it couldn't have happened to a better person
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