Ord Talk

Sweetpea, No dangerous tree removal on Q Street or 11th Street is being done by the city crews as of yet. Mayor O'Brien says that PMS removes trees all over the city that pose a danger to the public on public right of ways. I am sure that sometime we will be seeing some activity soon. In my view the dangerous trees are on the city right of way and need to be completely cut down, not just trimmed. I am told that there is a power struggle between Mayor O'Brien and PMS, as to who is in charge of the city. I am told PMS is sulking over the recent spotlight that has been put on him and he is refusing to cut the trees down on Q Street and 11th Street. As to PMS reimbursing the city for his personal tree trimming job at his income producing rental property, I have not heard anything. Considering the mayor's statement that there was no power lines involved in the tree trimming of PMS income producing rental property, I am sure that the mayor will require reimbursement. We will just have to wait and see if Mayor O'Brien can address the Markowski Affair and what the mayor's legacy will be.

According to KNLV the hospital director resigned...effective immediately! Golly jeepers gosh, I wonder what the reason could be, perhaps he wants to "spend more time with his family".

Here's an update on the Markowski Affair. Taking Markowski up on his invitation to check out the public records concerning his real estate deals has revealed some notable issues. The most striking is the fast track Mayor O'Brien put on the Markowski/Viaero Deal for PMS financial benefit. Maybe that's why 3 council members voted NO for the conditional use permit for Viaero and 3 voted YES, giving Mayor O'Brien the tie breaking vote in favor of Markowski. More on this later, I am waiting on some additional documents as per my request to the mayor that was omitted from my original request. Imagine that, could this be more Irish River Dance from Mayor O'Brien?

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If you were trying to gain custody of a minor child from an ex-spouse, would you tell that child to stop trying in school? Would you encourage that child to let his/her grades go from Cs and Bs, to Fs in a matter of 4-6 weeks? Would you allow that child to fail three classes, and put his/her high school graduation time in jeopardy? Would you literally sacrifice the child you have suddenly taken an interest in to mess up so badly in school that he/she will end up having to go to school another year; just to satisfy your own egotistical (and apparently devious) desires?

rock - Last time I checked, the hospital DOES have public support. (Remember that little thing we voted on not too long ago and how it turned out?) Way to make it sound like the boards fault for Schrage resigning for personal reasons. Let me ask you this: if you had to stop trucking for personal reasons (health, family, etc.) would you blame the companies you ran routes for? This, while bad timing and while the hospital is going up, shouldn't be blamed on the board any more than you would blame those companies UNTIL we can honestly say it was the board's fault (and that is a HUGE "If").

Shakes, the hospital bond passed by 108 votes with a MASSIVE Advertising campaign. Zero advertising on the opposing side because they thought it wouldn't pass. Same with the school bond, passed by 100 votes. Thats a pretty slim margin and no matter how you cut it, support for the hospital and the school bonds is at best about 50%. We can rehash until hell freezes over why the Steven' aren't allowed to practice in the hospital but the main reason is the board and former CEO Phil Lowe and the smear campaign he instigated that was backed up by the majority of the current hospital board. Do you really think that Schrage "resigned" and then left town for "personal reasons" on the same day? Just long enough to pack up and haul his butt out of town just in case the truth came out early? Which it will eventually, sometimes you can run but you can't hide. Look at the turnover rate of doctors, nurses and support personel in that institution. Something is wrong up there and it all points back to the leadership of the current board. If you took an honest look at it instead of a knee jerk "Rock is always Wrong" attitude you might have second thoughts. As for Schrage, you don't run that fast unless somebody is after you or you put yourself in harms way by staying.

Steffan - Sure you're not having a knee-jerk "Rock is always right" or "the hospital is evil" reaction? We could go back and forth on that all day. My general opinion is that you don't crucify someone until you can PROVE something, but we know that isn't how you operate. To you, proof is only what you and your posse can get people to believe, not what actually goes on. The whole "MASSIVE campaign" you talk about was probably at least 75% geared towards retaliating to the other MASSIVE smear campaign against it. Goes both ways there genius. As far as doctors coming and going, I'm not involved in that, but common sense tells me that some of that would be due to moving on to bigger cities, private practices, higher pay than VCHS can afford etc. You just keep piling every individual situation into a package that serves YOUR purpose without looking further into the details. There is a reason the saying goes "the devil is in the details," not in "sweeping generalizations."

Sorry, was indisposed a few days. The situation I speak of involves a local and a former local (who spends a lot of time in the area). No one on this site is involved -- at least I don't think so; I'm not from Ord or the area; I'm just a visitor. But I know the case, and it's easily a real sad situation in that one parent believes money will overcome the law. Thought I'd toss it out as fodder for something other than hospital or school stuff.

Crash,
By "the other way around" do you mean that Doctors should own the hospitals?

Gosh, there would certainly be no opportunity for greed, collusion or nepotism in that kind of a scenario. I'll bet the cost of medical care would plummet. Brilliant.