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I am angry about this amendment that I assume they will pass tonight. I purchased 9 foot poles which makes bird feeding difficult but keeps the feeders the required 5 feet off the ground, Now this new amendment says…"
Ludington City Council Meeting, April 27, 2026: Unexpected Agreements
There was a mildly surreal feel as the 100-minute meeting of the Ludington City Council on April 27th (agenda packet here) progressed and city officials showed themselves to be in an unexpectedly agreeable mood with citizens. The surreal part is that they wouldn't come close to admitting…See More
Pickleball and Picking Personnel Present Problems in Pere Marquette Palaver
Pere Marquette Charter Township (PMCT) has avoided the spotlight over controversies ever since the successful recall election of former Treasurer Karie Bleau in November 2023 following the resignation of her husband, former Supervisor Jerry Bleau, also facing recall at the time. At their board of trustees meeting this week, controversies arose over a couple of different topics on the agenda.The first occurred as the board of five trustees (Treasurer Sarah Iteen was absent) considered the three…See More
"The presence of shadows is often more concerning than darkness. With darkness, you have the absolute absence of light, a condition which can be remedied quickly enough by introducing light. With shadows, light is present and gives us the…"
"Good summary/history X of Ludington's shadow corruption. Lame duck councilors and orhes just "lame". Love this description. The active shadow Aldrich making up herself to be shadow power should ahadow resign, imo. How arrogant and…"
Ludington's Shadow Government in Action
Some may look at the title of this article and wonder if the shadow government to be discussed is the various individuals and business entities in the private sector who have an inordinate pull over local governments and enjoy immunities therefrom. While these puppet masters are worth discussing, most are cautious enough to have a defense based on their own plausible deniability upon most any allegation. This article instead is looking at the usual target of those described above, a small…See More
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Magicians vs. Fishermen: An Expedition Upsleeve
Magicians and politicians have the same goal, which is to use their skills to draw our attention away from what trickery they are actually performing. These red herrings are only seen and captured by professional anglers.It's been hard to have a lot of confidence in elections in Michigan since 2020. In that year, it's not really debatable that there was the potential for voting fraud to take place, and it's always been hard to figure out the truth of whether fraud did happen. The party that…See More
Ludington City Council April 13, 2026, Pt. 2: TNT and the Turf War
In part one of our recap of this exciting April 13 meeting of the Ludington City Council we discussed what happened with the proposed PACE program and with a FOIA appeal that was never addressed. As a follow-up, the local newspaper printed its own article the day after and chose to print most of this reporter's…See More
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Who does the city council work for? Sometimes it's easy to figure out, such as with marinas. …"
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Ludington City Council Meeting, April 27, 2026: Unexpected Agreements
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There was a mildly surreal feel as the 100-minute meeting of the Ludington City Council on April 27th (…Continue
Pickleball and Picking Personnel Present Problems in Pere Marquette Palaver
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Pere Marquette Charter Township (PMCT) has avoided the spotlight over controversies ever since the successful recall election of former Treasurer Karie Bleau in November 2023 following the…Continue
Ludington's Shadow Government in Action
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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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