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The Unfinished Dock, the Unanswered Questions at Harbor View Marina
On April 8th, the City of Ludington (COL) and Harbor View Marina (HVM, a state-owned, city-leased entity) announced that they were excited that the $2,000,000 'A' dock project was underway and that it would be ready by May, presumably before the summer's unofficial start on Memorial Day weekend when both…See More
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"These humans are incapable of holding themselves to the letter of the law. The local judicial system supports this impropriety with vigor.
What is a citizen to do under such tyranny🤔"
Ludington City Council May 18th, 2026: The Shaw Redemption
When one previews the agenda packet for the May 18, 2026 meeting of the Ludington City Council, they see a modest list of action items, all outside the realm of the routine, all with the capability of being controversial. The typical "rubber stamp" mentality of the city council hive mind…See More
Regarding Hamlin Recall Rewrites
Next Thursday, Mason County's Election Commission will hold a review hearing to determine whether the language used in two proposed recall petitions of Hamlin officials are factual and clear enough to proceed further in the process. Hamlin citizen Greg Collins has revised the language of an earlier recall effort where the commission determined that the language was insufficiently clear for both targets and covered actions that happened before the term of Treasurer Susan Ptaszenski whose…See More
Scottville Board Loses 1) Another Commissioner, 2) Rigor, 3) Public Involvement, 4) All of the Above
After attending the May 11th, 2026 meeting of the Scottville City Commission, I couldn't help but think of the 18th century French philosopher Montesquieu. His look at political philosophy in "The Spirit of the Laws" included an analysis of republics, which is the representative democracy that we see practiced in America at all levels of government. He argues that republics can be difficult to maintain without a strong sense of civic virtue and duty by both citizens and leaders alike.…See More
Tiny Tire Tyranny: Ludington Administrators Choose Control and Confiscation over Safety and Legality
In less than a handful of years in their positions, Ludington City Manager Kaitlyn Aldrich and Police Chief Christopher Jones have earned themselves reputations that should not inspire confidence in the citizens looking for city leaders with integrity and honesty. We have chronicled many of those lapses, we see it with a growing number of lawsuits against their official actions concerning…See More
"I agree, a new residence would be a better fit there, but I think you're wrong about the committee. They likely have an idea of how much it would cost; the problem is that they give little consideration to the cost of it. These guys…"
"The boat trailer parking is indeed a eye sore for the area residence. You can tell by the why the committee talks they have no idea how much construction cost. Fencing , leveling and paving ? How many years of payback would they expect to recoup the…"
Firewatergate: LPD's Ongoing Scandals and Cover-ups Showing Selective Enforcement
The May 4th meeting of the Ludington City Council expanded the two-year-old Firewater-gate scandal to new proportions and made the council's complicity in the cover-up clearer than ever. If it wasn't already made clear by their continued silence in regard to the second part of the scandal. Let's clarify what the Firewater-gate scandal is and why it is a two-part scandal and two separate cover-ups all in one.…See More
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Ludington City Council May 18th, 2026: The Shaw Redemption
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Regarding Hamlin Recall Rewrites
Started by XLFD in Waving the Torch Around Our Area. Last reply by XLFD 14 hours ago. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Next Thursday, Mason County's Election Commission will hold a review hearing to determine whether the language used in two proposed recall petitions of Hamlin officials are factual and clear enough…Continue
The Unfinished Dock, the Unanswered Questions at Harbor View Marina
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On April 8th, the City of Ludington (COL) and Harbor View Marina (HVM, a state-owned, city-leased entity)…Continue
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One of the major foundations of this country is that we are a nation of laws (a republic) and that before the law, no one is supposed to receive special treatment. The portals of our highest court…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.
Now go to the…
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