Our Place

We were wrong. Again. Rats.
It wasn’t the Cove! Where the new T-Mobile cell phone tower has been erected.
The tower is up on Harbor Shores. So that whole article about the Cove recovering from its meth lab disaster and all…was balderdash.
It wasn’t bad reporting that was the cause. It was bad editing.

Why is Lake Geneva’s city hall space, and the personnel working there, locked down all the time?
The taxpayers of City of Lake Geneva own that entire building, the land it’s on, and the parking lot across the street. The residents and property owners are invariably the majority of people who enter that building to conduct all manner of business. Quite possibly, although not without criticism, it could be argued that the police department needs bullet proof slotted glass through which it communicates with visitors, unless those visitors are cleared to enter a nearby locked room, to await whomever they’ve come in to see. The open counters of the administrative staff, and the clerk, are all that’s left open and accessible, without going through an electrically locked door. When the old building inspector left, forces within the city immediately moved to have an electric lock outfitted to that door so you, as a citizen, may no longer enter that office unless you peer through slotted glass like a criminal, smile weakly in supplication, and get buzzed in.

Only one or two of the new employees, stationed at the front counter, are left out front to be the personnel anyone gets to actually encounter, and one of those has now papered glass windows so no one can be seen behind the counter by individuals standing at the counter. When did this all happen? Was it post 9/11 that city managers, damned near all of them, got the idea that they own these buildings? Are these people working for the public, or is the public working for them? Something backwards has happened. When you go into the city municipal building please reflect on your own background and record, and be worried. United and American Airlines are not the only institutional operations to somehow have gotten the idea that the American public is some sort of necessary evil to be tolerated, excluded and even pushed around. It’s your building, and those people work for you. Maybe it’s high time you started acting your part as a citizen and demanding attention as well as real service.

Road Construction

The road into Paddock Lake remains a mess for east traveling traffic. Either figure out a way around
the lake on 50 or pack an extra half hour into your morning or afternoon commute.

There’s road construction, and then there’s road construction administration.
Who are those guys, anyway? That’s a phrase that has to come to anyone’s mind who’s trying to make it down from Lake Geneva toward Kenosha on Highway 50. If you are driving earlier in the morning, or later in the afternoon, then add half an hour to your trip. There’s one intersection in Paddock Lake is being torn up to put in some pipes. The road scrunches down to one lane right at the light, and nobody’s bothered to adjust the light so it allows more of Highway 50 traffic to go by than before (and it’s now one of those lousy long lights).   Delavan is torn up all along 50 from Lowes on into town, moving form east to west and finally road construction has begun on the Highway 50 stretch everyone’s been waiting for in Lake Geneva. The only decency at all being shown to motorists, as they try to get through, in Lake Geneva, is where the road construction crews direct the traffic and seem to care.

Cartoon by Terry O’Neill