The trough never ends for City Hall

Glad to see the city is flush with cash again so the mayor, aldermen and department heads could spend a few days in a five-star hotel in Chicago.

These conferences are nothing more than taxpayer-paid vacations and people ought to let the folks in City Hall know they are sick of it.

By the way, I understand no Republican aldermen went on the trip.

It's all about the children

Are Quincy's teachers gonna strike?

Should they?

Shouldn't they?

What say u?

Under this 40, baby

Ever since I was 20, I wanted to be under a 40. 40 year old or 40 DD, didn't matter which. Although a 40 with a set of 40s...jackpot!

But it's the time of year for the local rag to pick out 20 people who have had their name in the paper or whose company can buy an ad and create a special section.

75 percent of these people work for taxing bodies or not-for-profits. That shouldn't be a surprise as those are the same people who city hall, GREDF and the local media empire believe are the chosen ones.

People who have their own businesses or actually have to produce something for a living are seen as second class citizens because those in power don't want self-reliance. They want you to think you can't get along with out them. Pretty liberal of them, huh?

Also notice that there are three members of Jim Mentesti's Junior Justice League on this year's list.

Can't believe the token QNIer didn't make it this year. I guess the Oakley grandkids still have plenty of years to make it.

You're a professional something anyway

So Ines Sainz was offended by a few catcalls in the Jets locker room, huh?

She says she's just a professional trying to do her job. She sure dresses like it.

She also showed up to Super Bowl media days once wearing a wedding dress and asking Tom Brady to marry her.

There are also pictures of her out there riding on the shoulders of football players and feeling their...biceps.

And of course there's the multiple magazine cover shots of her wearing a bikini and a smile.

This is like the chick who shows up with her boobs hanging out at the bar and then acts like Mother Theresa when some drunk walks up to her and says "Nice rack."

If you don't want the attention, keep your clothes on. Pretty simple.

Never forget

We didn't burn any Korans before they did this.

Not that we should burn them now, but to say the action might "cause harm"...please. Looks like they already caused the harm.

Try it again, bastards, and see what happens.

And if the dude in the Oval Office doesn't have the stones to carpet bomb Mecca, we'll find somebody who will.

If you were surprised, then maybe you need to go

From the City Hall/GREDF Gazette, regarding Gardner Denver:

Jim Mentesti, president of the Great River Economic Development Foundation, was also caught by surprise.

“I don’t think any of us saw this coming,” Mentesti said. “It’s hard to always know where everyone is ... but (businesses) are doing more internationally all of the time and we know connectivity to a major airport is important. Gardner Denver is a part of the global marketplace. We are living in a completely different economic climate than we once were.”

Waaaait a minute. We're Quincy. I thought anybody in the world can do business right here in little old Quincy. Isn’t that what Jimmy always tells us?

Perhaps if there had been someone from Gardner Denver on the GREDF board instead of the majority of governmental and non-for-profit glad handers, maybe the region's economic czar might have had a fucking clue what was going on.

During Broadcast Electronics’ 50^th anniversary last year, Mentesti said it was rare for a town of Quincy’s size to have a corporate headquarters. Talk about a self-fullfilling prophesy.

Mentesti, your time is up. Go play golf and drink...more than you already do...and get someone in here who can make something happen.