Newell: Parkersburg government needs to change

If we got just 1/10th of what we have been told we would get under this administration, there would not be any inducement to go to heavan!

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Some interesting ideas both good and bad. If Newell believes in these he should go ahead and make his pitch to city council, not the Rotary Club.

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Mayor Newell, must be doing something right, he got elected three times!

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Mayor Newell once again making some good points. In his final term he is still looking to make things improve for the long run for Parkersburg.

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There he goes with his home rule pitch again.Parkersburg's legendary corruption should make us all shudder at the thought there would be no checks and balances from the state. It would be the Good ol' boy's club on steroids! 1% sales tax would just make everyone buy all instead of most of their consumables in Vienna and surrounding cities.

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Legendary corruption? I hardly think we are giving Chicago a run for their money...

Some of those ideas seem to be geniune and good for the city in the long run. I can't help but think there is some other motive, maybe Bob wants to be the city manager?

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Yeah I agree goldnblue there has to be some motive. I wonder what it could be. The Chicago line was great !

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The city might do better if they would do something about the poop plant that welcomes you to the city. The welcome mat says," Welcome to Parkersburg,here smell this".

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Sounds good lets have an election next year let citizens vote on it. Make it so no one in office now like mayor and city council can not get job let council hire city manager.make city manager pay 60 thousand dollars let council vote on mayor from one of them at 10 thousand dollar a year part time.

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@newworld: I think its just the breeze rolling in from Ohio.

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Matt4685,I was taking two business associates to lunch one day. When I rolled down the window to pay the toll, both said they would never open a branch here.

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If Mayor Newell is "not doing anything right".to reiteratre what a commenter texted,why did the astute voters of Parkersburg re-elect this fine progressive oriented official?

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Isn't Danny Jones YOUR man there,007? Only South Hills around here is a crummy flooded golf course.

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Danny is doing great,particularly in our affluent section of this once great capital city!!!

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newworld, so you went over the Toll Bridge. You realize the smell was the sewage treatment plant located adjacent to the bridge, right?

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This is upsetting. Why did the Mayor not propose this earlier or is he only interested in his on self interests? If he believed this he should have proposed and stepped aside. Under this proposal he would take care of his politcal buddies giving them life time appointments to their jobs. Having new faces and new ideas is often good. Now we will have a bunch of life time bureacrats running city hall with no accountability to the citizens. Maybe he plans to be appointed city manager?

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The reason the mayor is pushing this is beacause he is in his last term as mayor...but he could run for the city manager spot and still keep his job...doesnt take a rocket scientist to see that...I think the city should impose a 1 percent sales tax then we can go to ohio and buy all of our goods...not just gas...

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GoldNBlue, yes I know the smell is the sewage treatment plant. That means it will be there forever and always welcome people to the state and city of Parkersburg with the smell of poop!! Just a small tatse of what to expect from the rest of the city and people!!

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You know people, we have another bridge, whats wrong with going over it?

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When more businesses leave Parkersburg and head up to Vienna, the toll bridge will be the only money maker for the city has left. More future city investors use the toll bridge then the other bridge to nowhere. Again, they are headed somewhere else besides Parkersburg. Once Public Debt shuts down, so will downtown Parkersburg. All Parkersburg will have left is the smell of the poop plant!

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Correction: Should be 11 years of infliction on the citizens of Parkersburg, instead of 12. Sometimes I can be an idiot.

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Next Pothole Bob will want to be the King of Parkersburg.

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Pothole for King! Pothole for King! Pothole for King! Denver for Jester!

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..and me for Village Idiot!

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I keep seeing people saying "public debt will shut down". Is everybody this uninformed? If anything, BPD will be growing. I have even heard a new building is in the works. Do you think they would build a new office if they were planning on leaving? Heck, the Avery St building was built not that long ago. Same thing, they wouldn't have built Avery either!

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