New Blog for Jim Wise

I received an e-mail from Mr. Wise to promote his new blog.  Please feel free to post comments on his site and every other site that allows you the chance to speak and open up. His link is listed under Blogroll and is called Belvidere Politiks Your Faithful Servant, Silence Dogood,

Jim Wise Fights Back

I have received another request from Mr.Wise to post something for him.  I have agreed to do so and I have every reason to believe that he must have read my post because I think we are on the same page with this topic.  Unfortunately I received 2 other emails from citizens who share my [...]

Jim Wise runs his Mayoral Commercials

Tonight I was watching TBS channel 40, and at 7:00 pm Men in Black 2 came on. As I have seen this show 45 times too many I got up to hunt down the remote control to change the channel. It was again lost and it took me a good 10 minutes to find it. [...]

Get out and vote on February 24, 2009

I wanted to share the e-mails that were waiting for me when I woke up this morning. They aren’t favorable towards me I must warn you. I am including them because they should be seen, they are important towards our upcoming election. I take no issue with people being upset with me and I am [...]

Jim Wise finds out more information, do we want the train now?

Silence, I too read the January 16, Boone County Journal with great interest. I have spoken my piece about the City’s “wish list” and its misdirected intent. Now, I have learned that our mayor has not only decided to go against the very principles that he preaches, but is attempting to defy the desires of [...]

Thank you Mr. Wise

I read with interest your posting of “Has Ron been reading my post”? I especially thought that the part about how Ron can help the citizens of our community by altering the property tax cycle from its current four year cycle to a one year cycle was right on. Doing so would cause assessors to [...]

How can we pay for a new Public Safety Building without raising taxes

Silence Dogood, Recently, while talking with many fine citizens of our community, I was asked to explain how my proposal of separating the Belvidere police department from the Public Safety Building would work. More importantly, how would the City pay for a new building that would house the Belvidere police department and where will they [...]

Another question for Mr. Wise

I wish to thank Mr. Wise for an explanation of what occurred in regards to Wal-Mart and the Enterprise Zone. I wonder if Mr. Wise could sled some light on the situation regarding the new Holiday Express which is planned for the same shopping center. I would assume that it also is in the enterprise [...]

And to the rescue

Dear Dogood: I found the recent postings by Ms. Harris and “just call me Roy” to be interesting. Apparently, I am not the only one to have concerns about the direction that our community is going and how we are going to get there. I would like to address Ms. Harris’ questions first. In regards [...]

Crisis in the Rockford Mass Transit System

Silence Dogood: I have attached a URL that is linked to a Rockford Register Star report of the financial crisis that the Rockford Mass Transit District is in. Believe it or not, this crisis will have an impact on Belvidere. Allow me to explain. The Keen Age Center will lose its Federal Funding for the [...]