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4:01 PM Friday, October 30, 2009

Building a new VA clinic is great, but why not use an empty building here in Middletown? Building one out on Union Road is so far away and a lot of the patients who go there are disabled and have to get rides. It is going to be really inconvenient. ...

I am sorry to hear about Liz Taylor’s recent slide into severe hallucinations and dementia. The Michael Jackson film is the greatest film ever? Frankly, Liz, I don’t give a damn.

... I also believe this community could use a good festival. Unfortunately, Middfest — in its tried and true format — has become stale, boring and expensive. I think those are the things that make people not come to the event. It is a celebration of foreign countries and that’s really cool — except for the fact that people associate foreign countries with lost jobs. That’s part of the reason why people aren’t interested in attending events about countries that they would never visit or don’t care to know about. I really think Middfest needs to re-evaluate, to come up with a newer concept. There are tons of festivals in southwestern Ohio during the summer. Most of them do not have an admission charge. ... Additionally, parking downtown is really not great anymore with the parking garage mostly not available. ...

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