Packers claim it will cost $7.5 million to host the 2025 NFL draft and expect to lose $$$ on the event. Two local state GOP politicians submitted a motion to the Wisonsin Legislature’s seeking a $2 million grant for Experience Greater Green Bay, a group that promotes tourism in the Green Bay area. Perhaps they should file for a loan to be paid back by 2026. Sales tax revenue from tourists should cover this easily.
June 2, 2023
Steve Garvey, former 1B for Dodgers and Padres, may run for the US Senate seat in California.
I forgot about this from 1989: Cyndy Garvey was released from jail one day after she was arrested for refusing to allow her ex-husband, Steve Garvey, court-ordered visits with their two daughters. In the same year SG admitted that he had fathered the children of two other women and one of them is suing him.
June 19, 2023
San Fran Mayor is mad about a GMA claim it’s ‘too dangerous to film’ in the downtown area, while Biden wants to hold fundraisers in the area in 2024.
July 6, 2023
Nearly 30 train cars crashed in Reeseville, WI in Dodge County, spilling grain and potash. No one was hurt. Another derailment occurred in Crawford County, WI in April. Where's "Mayor" Pete?
July 18, 2023
Bandimere Speedway, a longtime stop west of Denver on the NHRA circuit, will be sold for residential development. It may be tricky finding another location for drag racing in the Denver area.
Aug 11, 2023
Big Ed's BBQ is expanding in the Midwest. Eddie Nero, the owner, got an early boost from some former Chicago Bears, Jason McKie and Devin Hester. Is the food tasty?
Oct 12, 2023
CHICKEN FRIED DEVILED EGGS-tasty in local 21236 joint. The Local had some melt-in your mouth apps last night. those eggs : buttermilk and herb marinade, B&B pickle relish, rosemary
hot sauce, chives. Hot sauce was sweet than kicked in hot.
Oct 24, 2023
The Phandemic Brew, cool beer name, in Phillies' land. New Jersey brewery, Red White and Brew, has carved out a niche at Citizens Park. 
Dec 12, 2023
K Williams was arrested in Fort Calhoun, Nebraska on charges of homicide for knifing Rev S Cutsgell. In 2007, SG pleaded guilty to embezzling 127K from an area church. He was sentenced to probation and ordered to pay restitution. Diocese reassigned him to another church.
Dec 22, 2023
Black barbershops are creating a buzz − over books. So young readers can just 'be boys.
Alvin Irby, founder of Barbershop Books, has been placing a popular series of children's chapter books in neighborhood shops, including the Germantown section of Philadelphia.
Black boys are more than just their skin color. They want to read about trucks. They want to laugh. So many of the books that feature black boys don't give them a chance to be boys: silly or gross or funny." quote from Irby.
Jan 15, 2024
Bob Evans restaurant employees confronted Marquis Walker, a New Castle, DE resident, after he paid with a counterfeit $100 bill, but he started to argue with employees and refused to give back the change that he received. He gave back the change, took the counterfeit $100 bill. Delaware State Police chased him on foot and arrested him. He is charged with trying to pay a restaurant bill with a counterfeit $100 bill and with carrying more fake currency.
Jan 18 2024
Baltimore City supports passage of the Pava Marie LaPere Act in the Maryland General Assembly. It will eliminate “good-time credits” for first-degree sex offenders.
Billingsley, who is is charged with the murder of Pava Marie LaPere, a 26-year-old tech company CEO killed in 2023, received credits following a 2015 conviction on a sex offense.
Billingsley was also charged with a west Baltimore arson in 2023, where investigators claim he raped a woman, handcuffed a man, and slashed their throats in the apartment and then set them on fire.
Jan 22, 2024
Claymont, DE man sentenced to only 6.5 years for blowing up and robbing ATMs in the Philly area in 2020. I can't find his name in the reports.
March 3, 2024
In Norfolk VA, Port of Virginia opened a two-way passage allowing ultra-large container vessels to travel through and is dredging it and the Norfolk Harbor to 55 feet deep and the ocean approach to 59 feet deep.
When $450M dredging project is done in fall, The Port of Virginia will have the deepest, widest channels on the USA East Coast.
It quite a site to be on a tour boat and ride by the aircraft carriers in that area.
March 8, 2024
What's that smell around Millsboro DE? Officials claim it's a rotten egg smell caused by the dredging of the Indian river. Others ain't buying that claim.
Its bringing decaying organic material to the surface and dumping it in nearby wetlands.
April 10, 2024
Who are the good guys? Bull City United, a Durham, NC-based group of violence interrupters and outreach workers, has issues.
Nicole Taybron, 40, a BCU employee, was arrested earlier this week on a charge of possession with intent to sell and deliver crack cocaine.
May 18, 2024
Pot plants were spotted amidst a tulip patch near the capitol building in downtown Madison, WI and removed . No comment yet from Gov. Evers.
May 24, 2024
Norfolk Southern, which did not admit wrongdoing, agreed to a proposed consent decree estimated to cost them over $310 million to resolve a government lawsuit over a February 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
June 3, 2024
Headed to NC this week and I"ll be wary. NC Highway Patrol pursued Kahshon Nahkiem Cunningham and Promise Allure Hope on several drug charges. The chase started in Wilson Mills off of U.S. 70 and went through Johnston County and reached speeds of 145 mph.
Suspects gave up peacefully and drugs were found on Hope.
June 9, 2024
In Raleigh, NC, a barber is required to complete 59 steps and 17 forms to open a barbershop.
June 29, 2024
Enjoying the lead-in line --Business heats up ----for South Raleigh,NC ice-making plant. Holiday Ice peak season.
July 29, 2024
Hopefully, UNC abides by a lawsuit settlement which includes a commitment to follow the state's open-meeting laws including discussions on future conference alignment.
Missed this on -going news on this while I was in Chapel , NC in early June, 2024.about David McKenzie's lawsuit against UNC. He got 25K.
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