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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
Labor Day Week Fence Up, Memorial Day Week Fence Down
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I was walking through Stearns Park last night (Sunday, May 18, 2025) when it struck me that it was less than a week before summer officially started in Ludington with Memorial Day weekend, and we…Continue
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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…"
"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%. …"
"I would explore your math , 100 days the fence is up isn't 70% of the year."
Labor Day Week Fence Up, Memorial Day Week Fence Down
I was walking through Stearns Park last night (Sunday, May 18, 2025) when it struck me that it was less than a week before summer officially started in Ludington with Memorial Day weekend, and we still had sand piles on the beach left by recently removed sand fences and barrel-supported sand fences still along the east side of Stearns Outer Drive. I ran the numbers in…See More
Scottville City Commission, May 12, 2025: Living Within Their Means
Back when former Scottville City Manager Jimmy Newkirk was running up city expenses without a commensurate increase of revenue, one person was going to meetings reminding city commissioners that they needed to live within their means. It made no sense hiring a Grand Rapids law firm whose attorney would be charging over $300 per hour,…See More
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- At 8:50pm on December 30, 2023,
Willy said…
- X, I am unable to edit my comments and cannot attach a photo or video to my comments. I don't know if it's my computer or if it's has something to do with the forum. Just wondering if anyone else is having a problem.
- At 9:37pm on November 3, 2021,
Joel Micko said…
Hello and thank you!
- At 8:10pm on February 5, 2020,
Annabel Lee said…
Thank you!
- At 10:01pm on November 12, 2018,
AQUAMAN said…
Anything special about the CC Mtg. tonight? Thanks, Aqua.
- At 9:23pm on January 3, 2018,
XLFD said…
Louise, in the upper right corner of the main page you will see your name and an "inbox (1 new)" link under it. Click on that and you'll see a message from me. Click on that, and then reply in that same space. This will be private messaging between you and me. I will use my resources to try and verify your claims; our sheriff's office is remarkably cloaked in secrecy (more so than the COL) since KIm Cole assumed the position of sheriff.
- At 8:32pm on January 3, 2018,
Sure hope to hear these names! Bullies need exposed!
- At 4:54pm on January 3, 2018,
- I’m not sure how to message you, other than this way...sorry not good with computers. I have no evidence or proof. I’m sorry I wish I knew how to verify the claims all I can tell you is the names of the officers I heard about
- At 9:02pm on January 2, 2018,
- Ive heard that a local corrections officer got fired for sleeping with an inmate while on duty and another got fired for falsifying his time card, also A deputy Sargent recently got demoted. What is going on at our local sheriffs office and why is none of this being reported?
- At 12:55am on November 18, 2017,
- I'm curious about something and have not been able to find an answer. I'm hoping you may know the answer. Is it 'usual practice' to use a person's full name in the body of an op-ed?
- At 11:40pm on April 19, 2017,
- Idk how to use this site sorry but hopefully you could help or point me the right way
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