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Our favorite living old man,

Rudolph, got up in
MIKE Wayne
front of Council and delivered
REYNOLDS a damn fine refutation of the
$800,000 plan. We dont

Lets just get right to it: On

have room for the whole thing,

Monday night, Council went

Store Hours

Grays response immediately after.

Billion) $800,000 in taxpayer funds to

Rudolph Throws Down

preemptively stop Rush from moving out of the

Two weeks ago, I requested Council to

area. No, Rush has not threatened to leave.

In fact, theyre about to sink $1.6 million into

Duckys

veto a 4-B Board recommendation to give

$800,000 to Rush Enterprises, the richest

refurbishing their offices, which indicates an

corporation in New Braunfels. Following

intent to stay right where they are.

my request, Mr Meek of the Chamber of

4-B

President

Freder
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give Rush Enterprises (2014 revenues $4.7

to

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According

DONT PANIC!

Bob

Commerce, and Mr Pogue, a member of

Pennywise Gray, (in the June 26 Herald-

the 4-B Board, defended the $800,000 gift

Zeitung), Rush didnt even ask for the money.

as necessary to insure that Rush Enterprises

Also according to Gray, the money is for job

remain in the city for the next ten years. To

preservation, even though the plan allows

add frosting to this $800,000 cupcake,

Rush to cut its workforce by about 25%

Rush Enterprises would be allowed to reduce

(per Gray, again, in the HZ, Rush employs

its workforce by almost 25 percent, and it

nearly 400 full-time staff members). Gray

would not even be required to increase the

continually touts how important it is that

taxable valuation of its property.

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The sun is out, and the competition is heating up at

Longshot! We have a one-of-a-kind event taking place
this Saturday, August 1, at the wine bar. We're bringing
in two world-clasS ice sculptors and a pair of one-ton
blocks of ice for them to hack at. At the end of the day

Rush keep 300 jobs here, never mentioning

At no time, has Rush Enterprises even

that they currently, according to his media

considered or threatened to move from New

statement, employ 400. Remember our

Braunfels, a fact attested to by both the

course, we wilL be serving up refreshing sangria

motto: An act of omission is an act of intent.

Chamber and the 4-B Board. So the Chamber

and some crafty wines including our brand new

And thats a significant omission. A whopper,

and the 4-B Board want this Council to spend

Painter Series, for those sweEt wine drinkers

$800,000 in taxpayer money because of

out there. Our contestants wilL neEd to keEp

their completely unwarranted fear that Rush

their coOl for this hot event, but our judges

one might say.

The idea that we need to give a company
nearly a million dollars it didnt ask for, for
a job preservation plan that allows maybe
100 jobs to be eliminated, seems incredibly
suspect. We cant believe the guys at 4-B are
that stupid. Perhaps they are, but its just as
likely that the real motivation for the deal
simply isnt being discussed. Gray comes off
here as either simple-minded or dishonest.
Why hes allowing that is anybodys guess,
but since hes willing to take the hit, so be it.
Might be worth it to him.
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Enterprises will move from New Braunfels.

Does this mean that hereafter, our taxpayers
will be expected to fund any other business,
whenever the Chamber and 4-B Board
imagine they may be moving?
Do

you

think

you

can

approve

this recommendation to fund the richest

corporation in New Braunfels and then say
no to other businesses that would likely
expect to be treated equally?
Continued on page 4.

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Mr Meek testified that the Chamber

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4-B Board ever offered any of these other a month ago, and Im more strongly in
support of this vote today than I was even
business the same deal they have offered
30 days ago. I believe its a solid vote, and
Rush Enterprises? Has any other business,
if we could imagine and attract a company
without even asking, been offered thousands
to town that has high paying jobs, that
of tax dollars with the understanding that it
has hundreds of jobs, has benefits, has a
could reduce its workforce and not have
very substantial tax roll, and is a strong
to increase the taxable valuation, only by
corporate citizen, Rush would get a check
agreeing to remain in the city for ten years?
box, a check by every box. They are that
I dont think any city council has ever been
sort of corporate citizen and a high wage
asked to approve such a sweetheart deal
company here in town.
as this one.
Some criticize, did Rush even
And wasnt it not just a few years
threaten to move? No, they did not. But
ago that the 4-B Board was giving Rush
its part of our retention program to go
Enterprises an outright gift of a $95,000
out and speak to folks, and I point to our
generator which the Council wisely vetoed?
suburb to the south, also known as San
Why is our 4-B Board so eager to give
Antonio, AT&T made no announcement,
away our tax dollars to Rush Enterprises?
and gave no indications they were moving
Mr Meek stated that this $800,000
to Dallas in 2009 they left and they took
handout was to help Rush Enterprises
over 1,000 senior jobs with them and it
modernize its 30 year-old office building.
was a body blow to our, to San Antonio,
But Rush Enterprises has depreciated
to our neighbors, in terms of economic
that same building over those 30 years,
development, in terms of prestige, in terms
and has received for each of those years
of really, overall stature of San Antonio in
both a state and federal depreciation tax
the country. (Editors Note: AT&T continues
rebate. Those tax rebates were intended to
to maintain a massive corporate presence
encourage Rush Enterprises to upgrade its
in downtown San Antonio.)
headquarters building. Those tax rebates,
We at 4-B have been proactive in our
over the years, must have totaled tens of
job retention program, the way Mr Meek,
thousands of dollars. Now the Chamber
two weeks ago, discussed. Weve met
and the 4-B Board want you to add another
with almost 40 companies over the last
$800,000 of our local taxes to the 30 years
couple years on job retention. Sometimes
of state and federal tax rebates already
were criticized for not meeting and trying
collected by Rush Enterprises.
to focus our efforts, and were only trying
This proposal is an absolute insult to the
to, uh, local companies, were only trying
taxpayers of New Braunfels.
to attract companies from out-of-town.

Gray Delivers Flaccid

Response; Wins Anyway

This is one company who is in town, has

a strong history, has a great financial

standing, this is something we thought

(This is Grays full statement, minus his that we could do for a local company, to
greeting to Council. Emphasis is ours.)

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Just the 300 jobs, its over 25 million

If Rush breaks the deal, they are only

dollars in annual payroll, they have over

obligated to give back a pro-rated portion of

a million dollars in annual taxes in the

the funds, rather than the entire $800,000.

community, its as Jeff pointed out in his

Should Rush decide to leave, they need only

preview, the payback period on this would find a city willing to give them more than
be two-and-a-half years (Editors Note: This what theyd owe on the New Braunfels deal
is not a loan. Thats money the City would in order to come out ahead. Once again,

be getting from Rush anyway.) I dont go no risk on the part of the recipient of 4-B
to Las Vegas but if you see those sort of
funds, and in this case, no responsibility to
numbers and those sort of stats, I think its
maintain their employment numbers, along
a pretty wise investment on our part for a
with tacit approval to fire a quarter of their
small amount of money. Something if they
staff. The longer Gray spoke, the more
were a foreign company and trying to
this seemed like a tribute deal motivated
move here, it would cost us much more than
by corporate worship. A tithe, if you will,
$800,000 so, its our proactive approach
because were lucky to have such a great
to try to keep companies in town. (Editors
company here. I wanted hand him a warm
Note: Gray is the type of person Vegas likes
to see in a casino. The type that equates towel when he finished.
gambling with investment.)
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strong corporate citizen. So I will hope that decide to move. Our roads and drainage,
the 4-B $800,000 proposal, I would urge

however, still arent up to par, and property

you to support our proposal.

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District Twos Edwards voted against the plan.

Both Rudolph and District Two rep Aja

Edwards brought up the issue of Rush being

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allowed to cut its workforce from 400 to

300 as part of the job preservation deal.
Gray ignored that elephant in the room,
but instead kept repeating the words job
preservation and how important those 300
jobs are to the city. 4-B could have easily
put strings on the deal requiring Rush to
maintain, or even increase, their current
employment numbers. The fact that they
didnt, and that Gray refused to address
the stats that both Rudolph and Edwards
brought up, could well be an indication that

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carving is not just in the finished piece, but in

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since the temperatures for New Braunfels this

you choose the latter, the festivities will be

degrees. Usually during an August in Texas,

Saturday, August 1, at Longshot Wine Bar

ice says Screw this! and hops aboard the

and Tasting Room on Landa Street.

hobo ice train in order to return to its Canadian

Longshot is bringing ice artists Buddy

breeding grounds, where it will spawn and die.

The Viking Rasmussen and Reverend Butter

What makes the ice used for this

(dont laugh at the mans name). From 8 to Saturdays competition different is that it
10pm these two men will use frighteningly

is very, very, very large. Viking Rasmussen

dangerous implements to create works of art and the most Rev. Butter will be using
from blocks of ice.

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1,000 pounds of ice, Kempen said. Thats

We want to bring something to New a pretty big flock of ice, and would be
Braunfels thats unconventional but unique, interesting to see on its own. That much ice
said Longshots manager Charis Kempen. will not melt in a hurry.
We dont really have things like that here.

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religious symbols, to animals, furniture and

You could go out to watch two world- even buildings. The art in ice carving is not just

and usually pretty cool year around because

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Tibetan sand mandalas, the sculptures offer
a lesson of impermanence of the material

pretty comfortable.
Kempen said the two men will sculpt,

world. Water turns to ice, ice returns to take a break, and sculpt some more.
water, which means the ice artists will create From the icy detritus, the artists will carve
beautiful pieces that will, inevitably, end mugs, which patrons can purchase to
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carved ice mug from the artists, you can have

oldest house in New Braunfels. Built in 1847,

the margaritas for $15, she said.

the wine bar was once used to house the

For those who just are unable stop mills managers. MacDonald has done well
themselves from touching stuff, it is highly

to maintain the integrity of the buildings

advisable to avoid the social faux pas of original design.

chipping ice from the sculpture into your

While artistic ice competitors Buddy

drink. This is because you do not put ice into the Viking (the son of Mjolnir and Yggdrasil
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Rasmussen) and the Rev. Butter (the son of

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Jasper Pontiff and Cardinal Butter) are certainly the

MacDonald, Longshot is one of a few true

main attraction, there is a lot more going on

Texas wineries in the New Braunfels area.

at Longshot on Saturday.

Longshot makes all of its own wine from

Country and folk musician Austin Gilliam

grapes the winery grows in Brownfield, will be performing between 7 and 10 pm,
near Lubbock, Kempen said. The company

and if youre hungry, Texas Po Boys will have

does everything from beginning to end, from

a food truck there to serve po boys, sliders

growing the grapes, picking the grapes, and bacon crack, which Kempen said is a
pressing the grapes into wine and aging type of candied bacon. If you are wondering
that wine in barrels.

what wine to drink with your candied bacon,

For a nice chilled wine on a warm I have no idea, but Im sure the staff at
evening, Kempen said she recommends Longshot can properly guide you.
patrons try their new Cactus White wine.

The wine bar will also be selling tickets

Its a chilled white wine with a beautiful for Casino Night, which will benefit the
bouquet of honeysuckle and pear, the Comal County Childrens Advocacy. Tickets
manager said. The wine isnt too sweet and
easy to drink. The Cactus is from our painters

are $60 and go to a most worthy cause.

Kempen also wants everyone to know

series. The Cactus White costs $6 per glass that children are allowed, so parents dont
or $16 for a bottle.
Also from the Painters series, Kempen

have to find a babysitter or a designated

driver if the kids are really advanced.

pointed to the Jo Ann Semi-Sweet White. She

Come on and check out something

also advises patrons to try the Longshot house

different and something new, all while

wine, the Sweet Red. The tasting room will

keeping cool, she said. Everyone is

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welcome because the event is family-and-pet-

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on Sports WITH BRANT FREEMAN

Have a Happy
Bud Dallman Day!

That was the statement on the cover of our

July 16th edition, which featured a picture
of the legendary Bud Dallman alongside
two young swimmers, members of the
Landa Park Dolphins, a swim team that
Dallman coached for over 50 years. A little
more than a week later, he was gone.
A man whose life took him from
Wisconsin, to the Air Force and eventually
to New Braunfels, Dallman made the
most of his half century+ in South Texas.
In addition to establishing the Dolphins,
Dallman started the swim teams at both
New Braunfels High School and Canyon
High School, coaching three high school
all-Americans and seven world and
American record holders. At a larger
scale, he introduced automatic timing to
Texas and to the Texas Amateur Athletic
Federation and also organized and staged
the first major coaching clinic in Texas at
Trinity University. As a swimmer himself,
Dallmann medaled at the first World
Masters Games in 1985 and the first FINA
World Masters Swimming Championships
in 1986, setting world records along the
way. Dallman was later inducted into the
Texas Swimming & Diving Hall of Fame.
But it was his influence on youth
swimmers that truly resonated in the
community. There are families of Dolphins
all throughout New Braunfels. Children who
are currently in the program are swimming
the lanes at Landa Park because their
parents did, and their parents before them,
all coached by Bud and his staff. You talk to
those swimmers, and what they learned most
from Dallman wasnt necessarily the butterfly
or the backstroke. They learned togetherness,
a sense of belonging, what it meant to be
dedicated and how to succeed in life.
Anytime I think of some of the great
icons in sports to come from New Braunfels,
I first think of the athletes. A list that includes
Kliff Kingsbury, the greatest quarterback in

the history of New Braunfels High School

who later went on to star at Texas Tech,
reach the NFL and is now the Head Coach
of his alma mater in Lubbock. Canyon
High Schools Lance Berkman who one
day could possibly join former teammate
Craig Biggio in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Smithson Valley boasts its own football (Joe
Pawelek, former Big XII defensive player of
the year) and baseball (Jason LaRue, a 12year MLB player) stars. NBHS has turned
into a factory for tennis and track athletes
now succeeding at the next level.
There have been coaches who have
used their brief time in New Braunfels as
a spring board for their careers, such as
Karen Chisum, one time a Head Coach of
the Unicorn Volleyball program (who help
found the Fraulein Volleyfest nearly 40
years ago), now preparing for her 35th
season of coaching just up road at Texas
State University. Billy Gillespie, who once
led Texas A&Ms mens basketball program
to the Sweet 16, made one of his first head
coaching stops at Canyon High School.
Some coaches have planted their roots in
Comal County, establishing distinguished
programs such as Larry Hill (going on year 23
as Head Football Coach at Smithson Valley),
CHS volleyball coach Heather Sanders and
Unicorn tennis coach David Mueller.
These are all big and important names
to the local sports scene, each making an
impact during their time in the area, no
matter how long or brief its been.
Then theres Bud. A man who influenced
generations of swimmers and families. A man
who loved those he coached as much as he
loved the water. A man whos legacy will live
on for years to come. A man we lost. A man we
say goodbye to. A man we say thank you to.
Have a Happy Bud Dallman Day.

Brant Freeman is a seasoned local sportscaster,

serving as the radio voice of Texas State University,
hosting television coverage of Texas State Athletics and
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ASK A MEXICAN!

By Gustavo Arellano

SPECIAL ONE-LINER ANSWERS EDITION

Dear Mexican: I wasnt born in this
country but I got here as quickly as I
could at the age of ten. I was born in
Mexico and live in Houston, a city that
is bursting at the seams with Mexicans
and Latinos from every country south
of the border.
I think I have the solution to all
this immigration debate. The light bulb
went on recently when I was attending
a breakfast put on by big-time real
estate developers at a five-star hotel.
They were pitching new communities
being built in resort cities starting at a
mere half a million dollars. So why not
just annex Mexico? We make it easier
for rich gabachos to go south with their
money and create lots of jobs.
El Coco
Dear Coconut: Isnt that what NAFTA did?

Dear Mexican: All my Mexican

friends are second or third-generation,
and really relate to Mexico in a generic
way but are shaky on the details of
history. Which grupo should they
hang with? The bloodthirsty Were
here to kill you and steal all your stuff
conquistadores or the cut out your
beating heart and worship anything
that moves indios?
White Who Likes Brown Power
Dear Gabacho: Gabachas, of course:

Dear Gabacho: You do that, boy,

and all those Mexicans will pour of the
camioneta and give you some good ol
fashioned chingazos like we always do
and theres your answer.

Dear Mexican: Im going to

graduate school for Mexican history
and I had a professor of Chicano
studies call me a Mexicanist. Have
you heard of this term before? And
what does it mean?
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heard of the termit means your professor is
an insecure pendejo.

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Dolphins Remember Coach Bud

There is little that I can say about Coach

Bud Dallmann that hasnt already been said.
He was a great man who touched countless
lives. He taught my children (as hed taught
so many others children over the years) and
he inspired me.
Ours is a swim family. Our kids have
spent years getting up at the crack of dawn to
make their way to the pool for their morning
workouts. Sometimes Ive griped (under my
breath) about getting up so early to haul
the kids to the pool. My children go around
smelling like chlorine. We plan family vacation
based on when the kids are going to State.
Year in and year out there has been a constant
that I could count on: Coach Bud. Coach Bud
was there at the pool every day in the early
morning hours and every afternoon. He wasnt
just passively sitting there, either. He was
coaching! He was passing on hard-earned
knowledge to young people and he was
doing it with vim and vigor. Watch that flipturn! Kick more. Youre not kicking enough.
Good, job! Keep up the good work!
I swear that Coach Bud thrived on
chlorine. I think the smell of it kept him young.
Id greet him in the morning with, Good
morning, Coach! How are you? and hed
always reply, Too blessed to be stressed.
He meant it. Bud Dallmann was one of those
guys whod figured things out. He knew he
had it good. He knew the value of giving to
his community and the blessings that flowed
from that. He felt blessed and the whole time it
was he who was a blessing to us. He inspired
me because he showed that happiness and
contentment can be found in being there for
others. Some folks just talk the talk. Coach
Bud walked the walk. I miss him. My family
misses him. New Braunfels has lost a great
man and we are all the poorer for it.
Kerstan Copeland
If you ever asked Coach how he was
doing, his answer was always humbly,
Better than I deserve, but you would be
hard pressed to find a kinder, more patient
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or loving man than Coach Bud Dallmann.

Since 1962, Bud taught children to swim
competitively, who taught children to swim
competitively, who now teach other children
to swim competitively. And all that time he
was on deck, involved in every aspect of
the club he built from scratch, and positively
affecting the lives of every single swimmer he
met. All without taking a dime as head coach.
He was an Air Force veteran, a wonderful
husband, father, grandfather, mentor and
coach that made more of a positive impact in
New Braunfels than most could make in three
lifetimes. When you have coached thousands
of swimmers in the community over the last 53
years, it is difficult not to run into generations
of families who were somehow or another
involved in his creation: the Landa Park
Dolphins. If you have ever been to the Landa
Park Aquatic Complex, you have him to thank.
As a coach, he nurtured a competitive
spirit and a desire to challenge oneself, and
taught discipline, humility, and that the clearest
path to success is the elimination of doubt. He
said that with the right attitude, you Can Do.
This Can Do ideal has followed every swimmer
that came through his program, not just in
athletics, but into every area of our lives. For
that, and the ability to instill this same attitude
in our own children, and for the swimmers we
coach, we will be eternally grateful.
He was a man of high standards,
high standards for kids in the water, for
his coaching staff and for the South Texas
swimming community. He had a particular
way of doing things, but when you look at
his accolades on the local, state and national
levels and the caliber of swimmers emerging
from his program, you saw it worked. And
while he may have been unwavering in
his method of coaching, he was equally
unwavering in his devotion to seeing and
developing the best in others. He was always
able find something special in a person and
hold on to that like a vise, and if he loved you
once, he always did. Forever.
And he was not only strong in spirit,
but also of mind and body. It may be hard
to imagine that a man, three years ago, at

92 got in the water and started the first leg

of a 50 mile relay to celebrate the 50 year
anniversary of the Dolphins swim team. Who
over a decade and literally hundreds of kids
later, could remember telling my mother to
bring me over to the team after I completed the
city swim course in 1989. Who remembered
how I performed and conversations we had
at a regional swim meet back in 1993. Who
20 years later had the same firm handshake,
the same blue pin-stripped jump suit, even the
same haircut. How could anyone not see this
man as invincible... as immortal?
Even a broken arm and a bout with
pneumonia couldnt keep him from cheering
on swimmers at practice and Saturday meets.
No doubt a lifetime of swimming kept him
young, but so did surrounding himself with
young people. If the fountain of youth exists,
its waters are pumped into the Olympic pool
that Bud Dallmann built in Landa Park.
After his hospitalization a few weeks
ago, we had a hard time believing he wouldnt
bounce back from this one, like all the others,
and to return to the pool deck with his coaching
staff. If you ever were a Dolphin, then you
know his motto: Better today than yesterday,
better tomorrow than today. It was a mantra
about improving your time in the water, but all
of us who cared about him wanted it to extend
to his health as well. But late in the evening on
July 24th, with his late wife on his mind, Coach
Bud finished his last race, peacefully.
Right up to the very end, Coach was
surrounded by his children and friends that
love him deeply. He leaves his swim team in
the very capable hands of his appointed new
head coach, Paige Bird, a former Dolphin,
a terrific athlete, and a caring coach who
is equipped with all the qualities Bud would
want to carry on his legacy.
Whenever someone asks me how I am
doing, I will do my best to remember that I am
blessed for all that I was given, earned and
made. For all of us that knew Bud Dallmann,
his spirit will endure in our hearts and
continue to cheer us on. Because he deserved
that and more.
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WITH NICK ROGERS

Media Nuts
I would like to expand on something Mike
Reynolds discussed in last weeks First Word
column. This, I hope, will offer readers an
insight into what journalists too often have
to contend with.
Members of the media, for some reason,
spend a great amount of time dealing with
people whose relationship with sanity is the
equivalent of a passing acquaintance whom
they hate. Perhaps its because people take
a personal interest in information because,
once that information is digested, it becomes
part of us. Maybe there are some people
who cant handle information that doesnt
fit their narrative of the world, so rather than
alter that view, they get angry.
This is not to say that most readers are
difficult rage monsters. Theyre not, but journalists
are more likely to hear from the angry.
Also, this is not to say that there arent
disturbed journalists. The media gives itself
more awards than any other profession
because journalists are underpaid, overworked,
overstressed and riddled with the insecurities
that come from people hating you.
Here are some of the categories of people
that are very quick to pick up the phone or
shoot off an email to tell us how to do our jobs
or remind us how we ruined their lives:

Stop Making Me Mad with the News

My father, who was also a journalist, used to
say that if you make both sides angry, then
youre doing your job.
Some journalists will disagree with this
contention, but experience has taught me that
Dads rule is true. I have received more than
numerous calls in the past for being a member
of the liberal or right-wing media, all for the
same story. We are also either muckraking
malcontents or in the governments pocket.
This is price for truth.
A few years ago, I received numerous
angry phone calls at a newspaper I worked at
for writing in a headline that President George
W. Bush wanted the government to be allowed
to tap cell phones. How do you know what the
president wants? I was asked. I pointed out that
the president asked Congress for this authority,
thus it is something he wants. This explanation
only got in the way of their mad.
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Youth Sports Parents

There are some parents who have boundary
issues and cannot differentiate their
accomplishments with that of their children.
Possibly the greatest number of angry calls
I have received come from parents who feel
that their children (themselves) did not receive
the proper media attention for their (the
parents) sports heroics.
I once got reamed out by a woman
because the newspaper did not do a story
about her son. Who pitched a no-hitter. In T-ball.
A sports editor I know once received a
call from a grandmother who was angry that
her granddaughter did not get more coverage
for her performance during a preseason
volleyball match. She ended the conversation
by telling the editor that he was the reason the
teenage suicide rate was so high.

The Deep Throats

Journalism relies a great deal on tips from
sources. However, a valuable source must
have information that we can use, or at least
a starting point from where we can begin an
investigation.
Unfortunately, we get too many tips like this:
Whistle sucker: You should look into
(put officials name here) relationship with (put
entity here).
Reporter: What is (officials) relationship
with (entity)? Do you have some information?
Whistle sucker: Im not going to do your
job for you.
If you have a valid tip, great! But we
really need something to go on. Making
vague accusations or insinuating bizarre
conspiracies without any supporting facts
make it impossible for us to follow through.

Need a Civics Lesson

There are people who will send newspapers
letters or stories they have written. When
the newspaper refuses to run that copy, the
erstwhile writer will complain that the paper
has violated his or her right to free press.
If someone wants to utilize their freedom
of press, then they can start a newspaper.
A newspaper is a privately owned business
and what goes into to that newspaper is
the prerogative of the owner. The owner
has no obligation to print anything. The
government has to honor the freedom of the
press, not the press itself.

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With Kelly Colby

The Minnesota
Windmill-Industrial Complex
Last weeks column focused on a personal
aspect of the Minnesota trip, but if you thought
you could get away from my politicizing
everything, you were dead wrong. Im going
to do that here. In fact, when I first considered
the time in Minnesota, it was pretty clear to
me that there was perhaps more to say about

You can see how this would make me root for

them -- be sure to tell your congressperson no. campgrounds. I would have expected that to

windmills at least a little bit.

If wind is a good idea, it should probably be an absolute disaster, but it wasnt. In fact,

There are some differences in the

windmills in Minnesota, though. First, there

be able to make money without taxpayers

paying

them

for

anything

other

than were being run like successful businesses.

are lots of them. Lots and lots of them. electricity, and if your congressman says that
Hundreds of them. Second, its flat in the oil companies get subsidies too, call him a

Obviously,

the

downside

to

this

activity is that it displaces possible private

Minnesota. Windmills stand a better than liar, and tell him to stop calling letting people
decent chance of actually working in this type keep their profits, subsidies. Once wind is

business, and could be run poorly and using

of environment. Third, theyre huge. Some are

to pad pockets, and that might be happening,

100 meters tall or more (Editors Note: Thats

forced to work in the market, we wont even

need numbers telling us how well it works. If

over 328 feet in American). If you put all this it doesnt work, it will go away.
column. That said, two things that I noticed
together, theres good reason to believe that
While Im usually the guy who poohabout the state fit so nicely into my general
wind power might work in Minnesota, and
poohs this sort of thing, I should point out
commentary that they seem tailor-made for
it might actually make a substantial energythat windmills in Minnesota are ugly and
my column. So here they are.
generating dent. Wind power might be cost
more than a little disturbing. Put 50 to 100
Windmills. Minnesota, particularly the
effective in some areas of the country, and
of these things along the highway in some
western side of it, has a lot of windmills.
Minnesota and its Minnesotans are in a good
farmland and it can make you feel small. The
Thats not necessarily a bad thing. The
position to know if thats the case.
wide open spaces of the plain states do this
concept is sound, if old, and using them
I began by searching the internet for
anyway, but with the windmills added in, the
to produce electricity seems like a fine
information on Minnesota and its windmills.
effect is amplified. It looks a little like The Jolly
idea. Generally, when I find myself fighting
I found what I expected, a good amount of
against wind power it has more to do with useless propaganda about global warming Green Giant a resident of Blue Earth, MN
government subsidies than with any real and how capitalism is ruining the earth, but is growing pinwheels to sell to Godzilla
and Mothra. Worse, they all have a single,
objection to wind per se.
nothing that I could use, some actual facts
In fact, windmills in Vermont have and figures that show wind power to be slow-blinking, red light on the turbine. I cant
always offered something of a political generating electricity at a lower rate than decide what that looks like at night, but when
mixed blessing. Liberals love the idea of wind fossil fuels when subsidies are removed from I dove by them in the dark, I always had
power because they hate fossil fuels, so you the equation. (Feel free to email them to me trouble sleeping that night. A last concern
Minnesota than could be placed in a single

most of the campgrounds looked like they

would think that Vermont would be lousy with if you have them.) My mother started asking I have is that these windmills may only be
them. Two things prevent this, really. The first people if they had noticed a difference in their there because someone is paying to have
electric bills. This is genius, by the way. After
any substantial area for wind development all, thats what we really care about, right. At
except for on its ridgelines. The second is the end of the day, did my bill go down? She

them built. If this is the case, Minnesota can

that windmills actually kill a good number

of the municipal campground. This is by no

is that Vermont is insufficiently flat to provide

government power to prevent competition or

though I couldnt tell from my trip. In addition,

many of these towns had so little to offer in
the way of commerce, that it seems unlikely
that they would be stepping on any toes.
The benefits of a municipal campground

are the very amenities they offer to their

customers. Does your town want a swimming

pool? Build one for the campground. The

fees will pay for it over time and it can

be shared with the town. I saw the same

thing applied to disc golf courses, baseball

diamonds, pavilions used as meeting places,
boat accesses, beaches, batting cages, trails,

ponds and any number of other things that

a campground can use and that the town
might also use. Add to this the fact that the
campground brings commerce to the town
above and beyond simple camping fees,
and you have an idea that I think should be
considered everywhere. Heck, Im going to
try to get my town to build one.
I hope this offers some solace to those

look forward to having hundreds of windmills

who say I never have anything nice to say

slowly rotting away on farmland across the about government. They are, for the most
that liberals go apoplectic when you suggest got mostly blank stares. People had seen the state, and that would really be a shame.
part, right. I am an anarchist after all.
putting windmills on THEIR ridgelines. windmills, but had never connected the idea
The second thing I noted about Minnesota But, occasionally, very occasionally, I find
Suddenly you find liberals who are aware to electricity prices. They hadnt noticed any is that they seem to have perfected the idea something that I find worthy of praise done
of birds -- wouldnt it be sad if the windmill

drop, but they hadnt been looking either.

Ultimately, I decided that its probably

means an endorsement of government, but I were looking for, but hey, its something.

lopped a bald eagle in two? and who can

too early to know for sure. This is primarily have to admit these local guys seem to have

do math, recognizing that a few windmills

because subsidies for wind power are just their **** together. In much of Minnesota, it

in Vermont will not get us off of fossil fuels. now going away. There is some push to keep appears that individual towns have their own
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You can read more from Kelly Colby at yourfirstshrug.

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