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Scottville City Commission Meeting, May 27, 2025: Transparent Commitments
The post-Memorial Day Tuesday meeting of the Scottville City Commission (SCC) was held at the city's senior center, just south of the county's sole operating marijuana dispensary, the Hempire Collective. Commissioners at this meeting (and the meeting before) have been so mellow doing their jobs over the course of this and the …See More
Ludington City Council Meetings: April and May 2025 Redux
Our loyal readers have likely noticed that the Ludington Torch failed to put out a straight recap of Ludington City Council meetings over the last two months, even though we were in attendance. We have been abnormally busy, but the reason why we weren't able to supply these summaries was the initial lack of a video for the first meeting in April. We always try to include a video with our recaps, but for some reason, we would never find this within the first week of the first April meeting…See More
"Barnett will go to the grave unrepentant, because his career shows that he will kiss the asses of his betters and his peers and kick the asses of those who his betters and peers point towards. When a problem comes up that requires moral…"
"LIARS gonna Lie. Sad and the wicked justify themselves. All I can do is pray, that some day, Barnett will get over himself, conquer his ego because he can't seen to see over it to hear what you say.
Barnett is one of the main sources (imo), if…"
"He's minimally smarter than a rock, so it must be the latter. The problem is that everybody has been doing things wrong for so long that it would be an admission of corruption if they changed their policy so that they keep private funds…"
"You know what else happened back in 2017? Then-LPD Chief Mark Barnett and Shady John Shay propagated a lie that the six-year-old case file of the Baby Kate police report and interview with the mother consisted of 2700 pages filled with exempt…"
"I agree with Willie that the wind turbine situation is a whole different matter. Whether a pet is intact or not usually doesn’t have any direct impact on the neighbors. But when hrana za pse you start installing massive wind turbines, the…"
"Either the Mayor's is as dumb as a rock or he is hiding and performing corrupt acts using the City coffers to conceal his actions. No body can be this dense. You have explained in great detail that what has transpired is not proper or ethical…"
"I made the same tour as you did but added a few more stops. I toured all the marinas, public and private then the Badger then viewed all the new sandy beach at the end of Ludington Ave along with the sand fence and finally spent time driving on the…"
"I re-readad the 2017 Ludington Torch (LT) article and you (Rotta) stated:
"...They surely have put enough money aside to pay up to 78% of the city employee's wages in fringe benefits, are they now furnishing them with post-Christmas hams,…"
"Disgusting twist of facts that Barnett makes over misuse of general funds to buy hams (2017, 8 years ago and stillcannot understand law). Like the devil twisting truths.
Shame, shame, shame ham. Give it up Mayor, if you cannot understand law."
Mayor Barnett's Blatant Gaslighting Campaign
At the May 19, 2025 meeting of the Ludington City Council, "blatant" must have been the vocabulary (or drinking) word of the day, as Mayor Mark Barnett would use that adjective five times in a little over a minute to describe actions of his favorite citizen journalist. Rather than taunt the gentle reader by going over what led up to the outburst at the end of the 86 minute meeting, we'll…See More
"Math is my strength, so I would explore your reading ability, Stump, after I double check my writing ability for an error. If the fencing is not up 107 days in a year (which is 365.25 days) as it has in the past, the percentage is 29.3%. …"
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Scottville City Commission Meeting, May 27, 2025: Transparent Commitments
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The post-Memorial Day Tuesday meeting of the Scottville City Commission (SCC) was held at the city's senior center, just south of the county's sole operating marijuana dispensary, the Hempire…Continue
Ludington City Council Meetings: April and May 2025 Redux
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Our loyal readers have likely noticed that the Ludington Torch failed to put out a straight recap of Ludington City Council meetings over the last two months, even though we were in attendance. We…Continue
Mayor Barnett's Blatant Gaslighting Campaign
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At the May 19, 2025 meeting of the Ludington City Council, "blatant" must have been the…Continue
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The elves of the Ludington Torch were hopeful that we could move from our current Ning 2.0 network to the Ning 3.0 network shortly after our five year anniversary, but we have got news from them back that they are not currently doing any new migrations to the higher platform at this time. We surmise that there has been problems with the migrations of other Ning sites, because some things do not transfer very well or at all, including videos and group modules.
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Over the last couple of months our members have swelled due to an advertising push by those who join, post an ad, provide a link, and possibly send messages to other members advocating some product or action. While these are basically harmless if you ignore them, the Torch tech wizards cannot fully protect against the intruders. I have eradicated about two dozen of these infidels, and will make it a practice to do so in the future.
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Want to download videos for a thread or just to add to our Videos library, but are having a hard time figuring it out? It's not hard once you know how to do it. First you will need the Video's "Embed" code; on a typical video site like Youtube they will have a "share" button you need to click, you will then see an "Embed" button you need to click. You will see the code all in blue, you need to "copy" (as in copy and paste) this code by going to your copy command.
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