Salisbury News

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Give Me Five!

Please be my friend, I have no more friends. Please give me five in front of Joe and make it look like someone likes me, please?

She thinks to herself, NOT!

Did You Know The Wicomico River Was Sponsored By Gardner Signs?

Is There An Actual Health Department In Salisbury?

For Those Of You Just Returning To This Blog.....

Over this past weekend the City of Salisbury was bombarded with graffiti all over Downtown Salisbury. Because I knew I would be loading a ton of 2006 photos I chose to cut back the visible posts to only three days because for many it would take up too much space and time to let the Blog load up on some computers.

That being said, you'll need to go into the archives and look at the last two days of December to see "ALL" the devastating damage around town. I'm sorry for the inconvenience but I do hope you enjoy the 2006 photos.

I Wouldn't Pay To Remove My Trash Either!

I see our readers are following my advise and putting their trash into City trash cans for FREE pickup. Smart move! As you can also see, regular parking isn't the style these days as many residents on the Plaza choose to park illegally, as usual. So you know, there were no tickets on the windows of these vehicles.

Perhaps There's A Good Reason Why No One Eats At This Restaurant On Main Street, Except The Rats?

How Do You Keep Your Winsows In Place?

Good Old Downtown Salisbury!

No Boat, No Problem!

What's Wrong With This Picture?

Downtown Salisbury Is Falling Apart

This Main Street building is simply a disgrace! Another FOB? How can the City let something like this go on? There are pieces of glass in windows that could fly out of there in a heartbeat. That Witch wants to go after Von Siggers and then let a building like this go scott free? I DON'T THINK SO!

Monday, January 01, 2007

Wind Turbine Troubles By Dr. Jimmy Tragle, Part VI

Developers tend to use jobs and money to promote the turbines to local elected officials.

They make claims about the number of jobs the construction and operation of turbines will bring to communities and offer monetary promises to counties. Tucker County, W VA should stand as an example of what these promises are. Empty. During construction workers were imported as the assembly of the turbines isn’t a skill most everyone has. Monitoring of the facilities provides little more than a few low skill security jobs. I think the project in Tucker County has about 5 full timers on it.

Balanced with what is potentially lost in tourism jobs it appears to be a losing situation.

Tucker County was also promised yearly payments from the developer. Shortly after the plant was operational it was sold off to Florida Power and Light. In came the lawyers and out went the agreement. Tucker County has received a fraction of what was promised.

In addition the taxes levied by local governments tend to be very lenient for the projects. A typical generation facility will have taxes levied at a rate figured against 60% of the facility’s value. Wind plants use a figure of about 5% of value.

Coupled with potential revenue losses secondary to the placement of turbines the tax revenues for such entities have the potential to create shortfalls in state and county budgets.

The tax subsidies that are in place to make wind plants quite profitable for the industry were lobbied by Enron during the Clinton administration. Enron having its fingers in it is enough to make one suspicious of any well meaning.

I’d like to thank all who were interested enough to stick with this through the final installment. My apologies for the somewhat rough and disjointed nature this series of articles may have appeared to possess. They’re a result of cobbling them together somewhat hastily after months and months of reading what seems to be an unending supply of articles.