Thursday, April 19, 2007

Kroger buyout Scott's

The news blaring from channel 15, Kroger will purchase 18 Scott's stores from Supervalue. What? Some of those stores are right here in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Harrsion Square is going to do what again?

Oh and the Mayor's people, the democrats on the southside will be having a democratic propaganda open house on just how great things are going on the southside. Now let's see with a show of hands, how many are going to keep buying into the white elephant they called the former southtown mall? Oh I should correct myself and state the new Southtown Centre. And that translate into how many stores and how many jobs for thousands and thousand of folks living on the southside in this barren land.

The city is yelping and yelling about Thank God for Hardball Capital money for saving downtown. Pray tell what private investors do you think are waiting in the wings with millions of dollars to revitalize the southside? Did I not tell you readers this before? It is called speculation. You know when folks were looking for gold. Now developers are sitting on land, waiting for green dollars in that southcentre land grab.

Unless you are Mayor Dick. Dick has a business. A business that folks pay to hear him speak. Maybe Dick will recruit some southsiders to participate in his business for the sake of diversity. Wait a minute, the Mayor business is located in downtown (where the investment dollars are) and not at the great Southcentre Mall. My bag, or is that my bad. Dig it!

One other question, did SouthCentre Mall get TIF? Heck no, TIF is to built up the northside, not the southside. But, heck how was the southside to know, on what of the blog, one of the African-American newspaper editor, was quoted as not understanding TIF or CRED. That probably explains why CRED appeared for the southtown business owners who were on the southside and TIF for the residents was not even considered. CRED is reimbursement for the businesses. TIF is to improve the community. Are you there yet?

The mistake was believing that Democratic politicians are really concerned about the quality of life of those who live on the southside. It's your vote. It's nothing complicated about that. Our history tells us that African-Americans were denied that right along with reading But the African-American right to vote called the swing vote, is very valuable. But you thought it was all about you. And the editor/owner of the African-American newspaper, let me state in writing, that your property taxes did indeed increase.

Everybody taxes increased. The fiction that your property taxes did not increase is mitigated by a number game called the tax rate and property tax replacement. Two mechanism imposed that the state level that protected local taxes payers from your former boss and friends. But read your tax bills, and the Mayor love for you is just a lie, your property taxes did indeed increase. Reading that property tax bill might prove to be as complicated as understanding TIF. But it is doable. You can't rely on the folks preparing the tax bill.

But, if we fail as African-American to fully understand that fact, it is not a surprise that new laws that are crafted and implemented in a disparaging manner to to impact African-American community negatively are not going to be understood until the damage is done. Especially if you are waiting and believing what elected officials and its underlings tell you about a law instead of what the law says. That's one reason, our ancestors fought to get us an education, so that we could at least read and seek understanding for ourselves.

Our African-American newspaper were one way of communicating this misinformation and disparate in news coverage. I surely don't want to waste my time reading a newspaper that is suppose to be about us and for us if the news is just be piped in from the political machine that looks nothing like me. Question Question and more Questions. But that's why I started this blog.

Type in TIF and see how much information you get about it or where or about finding the information to read up on it yourself. Because I don't want you to take my word for it. I may not be a journalist, but I am a firm believer in the policy read it for yourself and you decide whose zooming who. I bet if Scott's had some of the TIF dollars we could have probably gotten some more stores on the southside.


Let's see this is the second largest city in Indiana and we are reduced to one Major food store. TIF, TIF, TIF

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