Showing posts with label Reisz Furniture building. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reisz Furniture building. Show all posts
Sunday, April 05, 2020

HISTORY: Yuri Slezkine's The House of Government and the making of the Soviet ruling class.

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It's been a year and a half since I read The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution , by Yuri Slezkine, described by its...
Monday, March 02, 2020

ROGER'S DIARY OF THE END TIMES: Nawbany is losing the Toilet Race to the Japanese.

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As the hippie rock band once observed, we have all been here before. Revisiting "Pissoirs for the People" -- or, will there be ...
Wednesday, November 06, 2019

Question: Did David Barksdale's support of the Reisz Mahal cost him re-election?

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Now that the election is over, maybe I can finally start writing about what I REALLY think. Or maybe not. Either way, to kick things ...
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Friday, November 01, 2019

Halloween's over, but Jeff Gahan is still wearing his construction engineer costume. The desperation's getting a tad tacky, eh?

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I'd suggest Jeff Gahan has jumped the shark, but after all that's so 2013; the debilitating paranoia's taken a few years to ...
Monday, October 14, 2019

GIVE GAHAN THE BOOT: (Monday) The Reisz Mahal luxury city hall, perhaps the signature Gahan boondoggle.

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Last week was Harvest Homecoming, and my city's favorite festival kept me pinned to the tarmac, but now we're back to what passes...
Friday, October 04, 2019

Homelessness, 8th Street Pizza's move, Clean Socks Hope's mission and an addendum by Exit 0.

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It's the building at 141 East Main Street, the former Liz at Home and more recently GrayStone Performance, located right across the s...
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Friday, September 27, 2019

Here in "walkable" Nawbany, our grandiose Reisz Mahal won't even have a Main Street entry portal, so make sure and bring your car.

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That's right, we're spending millions to remodel a building that won't have a Main Street entrance. Be sure and enter with yo...
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Thursday, August 08, 2019

Follow the change order money, 'cuz Deaf Gahan needs the Reisz Mahal finished before the anticipated re-enthronement.

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No follow-ups from the News and Tribune . No digging. Just boilerplate, ma'am -- and if we record the lies exactly as they were to...
Saturday, July 13, 2019

Revisiting "Pissoirs for the People" -- or, will there be public restrooms in the new luxury Reisz complex, and if so, how much will Team Gahan charge us to use them?

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The main text originally was posted on July 8, 2018; the bit at the end first appeared here on December 26, 2018.  Current county co...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

"Top Shelf Tactical, LLC is currently closed due to unstable building conditions from construction on the new city hall."

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It's a tough break for any locally-owned independent business. Top Shelf Tactical, LLC is currently closed due to unstable buildi...
Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Hello darkness, my old friend: Is David Barksdale yet again the council's swing vote on Gahan's Colonial Manor power play?

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"Shades of the Reisz Mahal," said the  spider to the fly . The Green Mouse has been told that occasional Republican councilma...

But didn't taxpayers already forward $750,000 to Denton Floyd to "stabilize" the Reisz Luxury City Hall?

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Of course, they might be maypoles. They're certainly not giants. The Jeff Gahan Money Machine, Part 17: Denton-Floyd feels M...
Thursday, April 11, 2019

Idiot Wind: Gahan voters rejoice as heroic street-closure rescues Reisz-Stag from litter, though not from rampant public disdain and derision.

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No soiled diapers were left behind. As Grandpa Jones always reminded us, truth is stranger than fact. But don't worry, folks. ...
Friday, March 29, 2019

This Barksdale campaign yard sign is misplaced and needs to be moved ASAP to a better location. BTW, we have a suggestion.

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This yard sign placement is egregious, don't you think? Ah, but the Reisz Mahal Luxury City Hall, which Barksdale's critical fi...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

The Jeff Gahan Money Machine, Part 17: Denton-Floyd feels M(ighty) Fine -- and the resulting Reisz Krispies Treats never tasted better to Mayor Gahan.

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Previously: The Jeff Gahan Money Machine, Part 16: Last week's minutes from the Board of Public Works and Safety reveal big donors da...
Thursday, February 07, 2019

The Chase Bank Building at 120 W. Spring St. might have made a groovy city hall, but the Reisz Mahal fix already had been non-transparently finalized.

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When we think back to last summer's Reisz Mahal luxury city hall boondoggle -- the Barksdale Ritz -- it's interesting to contempl...
Friday, December 28, 2018

Meme wars erupt as the Reisz Mahal tops the Tom May Content Multiplier's list of top five reasons not to vote for Jeff Gahan in 2019.

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As a New Year's resolution for 2019, let's work together to ensure that every last elected official responsible for the Reisz Mahal ...