Red Line (March 9)
Music Video: “I Won’t Stop” by Jordan Johnson
(a parody of “Tik Tok” by Ke$ha)
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Several calls were received about the “three doctors who moved into new offices.” One caller said, “they didn’t use Madera contractors. I’m a contractor myself and one of them is my own personal doctor. I will be going in and picking up my records from his office and going somewhere else. You would think they could have used someone (a contractor) from Madera.”
He also mentioned “outside contractors coming in and pouring the handicapped curb ramps.”
A woman “wanted to thank the three doctors for keeping Madera’s unemployment rate high by them going with an outside builder. They are keeping our local people — their patients — unemployed, which are roofers, electricians, dry-wallers, painters and more. Maybe we should be changing to other doctors. They are not helping us.”
A woman “would like to know who was the teacher at (an elementary school) who got pulled off the campus by police for fighting with the principal. How come you never put that in the newspaper? How can you sit there and tell us what’s wrong with our superintendent, but can’t tell us what is going (on) with our teachers? You ought to be ashamed or yourselves.”
A woman left a somewhat confusing message about the school district: “These are really old people. They really, really need to grow up.”
A woman left a message about “Clovis schools and overcrowding” and concluded with “what’s wrong with this picture?” Unfortunately, the Red Line could not understand all of her message.
Referring to past comments on the school board, a man said “We’ve pretty much gone over all of that.” He wanted “to change the subject and talk about the Scions. They’re the pretty ugliest dadgum cars I’ve ever seen. I would love to hear what other people in Madera really think.”
A man talked about an out-of-town dumping site used by “the city, where they keep dumping their dirt. I noticed they keep pushing it farther and farther into the Fresno River and closing down the water channel. I wonder if the Bureau of Reclamation knows they are doing it?”
“Once again a big thank you to the road department of Madera city,” said a man. “They came out the next day and filled in a serious pothole. That’s one-day service. Can’t get any better than that, Madera.”
A woman said, “How dare supervisor Tom Wheeler accuse me of not caring enough when I went to speak to the supervisors on March 2 about the cuts to the staff of the Madera Animal Shelter. “I had left my job and taken no pay to speak to the board. After I left, Wheeler accused me of not caring enough to stay. He picked the wrong person and I’ll be waiting for his apology in person.”
A man, who stated, “first off I do not work for the railroads,” wanted to comment about the train derailment on Feb. 27. “A city official said, ‘that’s why main lines don’t belong going through the center of town.’ Surprise, the town grew up around the railroad,” he said. “The railroad didn’t come through the center of town. That was very crude. The railroad was here before the town, and helped to build it.”
“I guess with the new high-speed rail coming through we can forget about that new Amtrak station planned for Road 26,” said a gentleman. “The board of supervisors and city council waited and wasted enough time so now they probably won’t have to worry about it.”
An online reader, self-identified as “King,” wrote, “Just another observation made today: A woman drives up in a Madera County car, parks and goes into pay her bill and drop off some mail at a PO Box depot. The car inside is strewn with personal items including a baby seat. These items appeared to be there for while, not just that day.
“Shame, shame, county. We all wish we had a company car to run our errands and drive our kids around. Are the citizens of Madera County paying for her gas, too?!”
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Music Video: “Early Birdie” by Owl City
i wonder how much builders concrete donate to the city of madera. how can a city advocate shop madera, buy madera and then use a company outside madera. i understand that times are tough but with all the donations that lee’s concrete has given this city in the past, do you look past that to save a few bucks. if a local buisness bids to high on a job and looses, ok. but if the bid is close and that local buisness is active in the community, then where should we go? this is not just about concrete. this is for all madera buisinesses.
madera county streets, alleys and medians
how many communities in madera county do your readers know of that the county was allowed to abandon. there are streets, alleys and medians that were sold to private parties the fairmead community?
are there any other communities in the county where this has happened? thus they abonded streets that are now considered to be private property… these alleys, streets and medians were not sols in the early 1900′s they were sold recently… shame on you madera county for allowing this to happen… is this even legal to sell streets? alleys and medians?