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On the Immorality of Saddling Ludington Taxpayers for City Hall's Reckless Spending
As Ludington leaders continue the process of creating special assessment districts encompassing the whole city to help pay for public safety and street lighting by raising over $600,000 for the next year and indefinitely after that, there is a tendency to look at that extra burden on the taxpayers as new, alternative taxation, and question the legality of doing so without a vote of the people allowing it. This very well could be the case; it won't surprise me that city leaders bolstered by…See More
"I agree 100%. It does contain the Plante Moran consultants slide deck though. Interesting that advised the Public Safety Special Assessment as a "last resort" but are taking actions to begin implementing it now. And the…"
"Thanks for providing this information. It is provided by the COL, so it may not tell the whole story-- some believe these special assessments may not be legal, that's not my main concern at this point, I see it as not being ethical to do…"
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Ludington School Board, September 2026: A Facade of Hope
The board packet for the Sept. 21 meeting of the Ludington School Board was not impressive in a couple ways. Primarily among these was its size; it consisted of two pages, an agenda and a page showing public comment rules. If this was the packet of documents to be viewed by the board in making decisions on three items of new business, our first…See More
Ludington City Manager Shreds City Charter
Our nation and each of its component states have their own Constitution, rules that federal and state officials swear oaths to defend and affirm. Officials of Home Rule Cities, like Ludington, are also required to take oaths to these, but they also swear allegiance to the (almost) immutable constitutions of their own municipality: the city charter. Charter provisions cannot be easily changed with a resolution or ordinance passed by a city council or commission; it requires a vote of the people…See More
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On the Immorality of Saddling Ludington Taxpayers for City Hall's Reckless Spending
Started by XLFD in Waving the Torch Around Our Area. Last reply by dowland 6 hours ago. 1 Reply 1 Like
As Ludington leaders continue the process of creating special assessment districts encompassing the whole city to help pay for public safety and street lighting by raising over $600,000 for the next…Continue
Hamlin's Old Guard Destroyed Public Records
Started by XLFD in Waving the Torch Around Our Area. Last reply by Lo yesterday. 4 Replies 3 Likes
Earlier thus week, the recall petitioning process for two members of the Hamlin Board of Trustees by getting enough signatures of registered voters in Hamlin Township was finalized; there will be a…Continue
Indecent Assessments of Ludington City Hall
Started by XLFD in Waving the Torch Around Our Area. Last reply by Good Citizen on Friday. 4 Replies 0 Likes
The year 2026 is not only the 250th anniversary of the founding of our great country, primarily over disputes regarding taxation, but a year that may see the taxation of property owners in Ludington…Continue
Ludington School Board, September 2026: A Facade of Hope
Started by XLFD in Waving the Torch Around Our Area on Wednesday. 0 Replies 0 Likes
The board packet for the Sept. 21 meeting of 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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Spammertizing
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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Downloading Videos
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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