Monday, January 28, 2013

Stories We're Working On

The Martin Chronicles staff spent its Sunday in the usual fashion. We celebrated hosting our 90,000th visitor. And our publisher treated us all to a delicious buffet breakfast (including a steady stream of Mimosas) and we talked at length about stories we are pursuing. There are several. Here is just a partial list.

  • We are exploring the ongoing efforts of Villa Hills' mental-case Mayor Mike Martin to install unemployed attorney and failed State Senate Candidate Jim Noll as the troubled town's next City attorney. While we do not yet endorse this theory, many are more convinced than ever that this lucrative ($70K) post is a raw Martin payback to Noll for his pre-hearing GUARANTEE that there was nothing the missionless drifter could hear that would get him to vote to remove Shorty. How else can you explain hiring someone with NO MUNICIPAL LAW EXPERIENCE to serve as City attorney? What's a caucus?!? C'mon man!!
  • We are tracking down the final cost to the taxpayers for The Fidgety Forger sending HBM-I (Holly Boo Boo) and Flyin' Brian R. Wischer to Lexington under the false premise that they were taking Kentucky League of Cities (KLC) Newly Elected Officials Training. As we have reported, the reality was embarrassingly heavy drinking and missed classes. And Holly Boo Boo and Flyin' Brian are less than one month in.
  • We are following up on reports that The Norwood Nitwit's administrative staff is STILL having inexplicable difficulty filling Open Records requests. There also seems to continue to be Records Retention issues. Why? We have learned that documents created just last fall ARE ALREADY MISSING.
  • We have a reporter working on numerous reports of strong disagreements between The Shiftless Swiveler and his newly elected council. Sources are reporting loud arguments between Shorty and what he thought would be his endlessly-loyal entourage about matters large and small. While we aren't a huge fan of most on the new council, we remind them that the hillbilly lynchmob is surely warming up in the bullpen. We also hope that the dim-witted hayseed living on the bend at Rogers Road hasn't converted his gigantic NO MORE BULLYING OR BLAMING sign into an outhouse just yet.
  • We are examining The Corrupt CEO's efforts to finally find a City Clerk. What are the odds that Martin will simply pull another crony hire? Is the giantess MARY HARDMAN destined to be the next City Clerk? Will the inert and inept Interim City Clerk finally be handed her well-deserved walking papers? If so, will the Interim City Clerk actually read them or will she simply continue to come in every day and play solitaire on her taxpayer-funded computer?
  • We are digging in to THE REAL REASON the TAXPAYERS CONTINUE TO PAY $47.50 per hour to crony-hire, bucket-headed clerk/bookkeeper Cordelia Schaber when she publicly announced that she RESIGNED IN NOVEMBER 2011. In a related story, we are looking in to why Councilmember Jim "Silent Cal" Cahill is allowing himself to be made the fall guy by the malfeasant Martin for the dreadful condition of the City's financial records.
  • We are delving in to this curious question as well. Why is every City official in every other Kenton County City openly discussing the mendacious Martin's plans to disband the Villa Hills Police Department and contract with an outside agency and yet Shorty continues to deny it?
  • We are working hard to uncover the real Teddy Stiletto. What is the dirt Stiletto claims to have on Martin that supposedly over-shadows everything else we have already learned? And brothers and sisters, that is saying something indeed.

[EDITOR'S NOTE: By the way, not only does Cordelia Schaber hold the record for being paid the longest by the taxpayers after tendering a resignation, it seems that The Bucket-Headed Bumpkin also has the distinction of being half of the first husband and wife team in Villa Hills to lose City Council races. And we thank the Almighty Spirit for that!]