Sandy Messerle and SCDC part ways
Budget shortfalls may explain why Sandy Messerle, wife of former interim commissioner Fred Messerle, is no longer employed by the agency.
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Dumb or lying? Local shills say the darnedest things
It is ironic really, that Barton should take such a cavalier attitude with people’s lives given the airport IS in the hazard zone and refuse to support the North Bend Fire Department
Read MoreSCDC running at $17K deficit in 2012
after paying Sandy Messerle’s $70,586 salary and benefits package and other expenses that do NOT appear to include rent for their presence at the Visitors Center, the organization operated in the red to the tune of $16,939.
Read MoreThe chamber cabal and local psyops
Cabal – a group of people united in some close design together, usually to promote their private views or interests, often by intrigue
Read MoreIt’s been busy around here lately
MGx staff, (that would be me), are deeply embedded in a project which ought to provide a wider venue and more flexibility to discuss local politics and issues. This will be an optional enhancement to MGx and MGx will continue on...
Read MoreProposed lease caves in to ORC requests
One of the major sticking points in the past is that ORC wants to be able to assign or transfer the lease to unnamed entities which this new lease allows*. Of course the company accepts the new lease, it is practically a gift.
Read MoreSCDC failures due to culture of division
SCDC will always be a failure and waste public dollars as long as it retains its current management. If it is ever to be effective it needs new professional and progressive leaders capable of a taking a broader view, (remember the SDAT report…), and who are willing to reach out to the wider brain trust embodied in that 58% rather than trying to pretend the “true majority” don’t exist.
Read MoreBOC field trip to Coos Bay, Barton email invites pro ORC crowd
chairman of the board, Fred Messerle, has moved the meeting to Coos Bay, at much expense, in order to make giving testimony in support of an Australian company essentially asking for another bailout from county taxpayers.
Read MoreJordan Cove Site Tour and Open House
According to Bob Braddock the marine slip is not big enough to house two ships and Jordan Cove has to control the entire slip. We already know this due to the Coast Guard ruling and issues with the Jordan Cove facility hazard exclusion zones, but I don’t know if the Port really has a clue after looking at the Tuesday, March 26th, World headline story and rendition drawing:
Read MorePort to renew Messerle consulting contract, declare another emergency
Messerle is brother to commissioner Fred Messerle and brother-in-law to SCDC director, Sandy Messerle.
Read MoreIs Coos Media CEO using his position to push personal agenda?
Williams is the CEO of this organization and his name calling is inappropriate and unprofessional and he should consider stepping down. Regardless, PEG Broadcasting definitely owes some equal time to those groups with different viewpoints.
Read MoreReimagining Coos County economic development, a Holiday wish
Imagination is defined as “the act or power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses or never before wholly perceived in reality.” What if we imagined a South Coast without the Port Commission and SCDC, would any of us really notice much? After all, both seem firmly entrenched in perpetuating finite 19th century industries with no place in the future. Would we actually notice if they both just went away? Economic development in Coos County is only constrained by a failure of imagination.
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