In a scene near the end of the 1988 movie Working Girl, executive Katharine Parker, believes she has successfully passed off her secretary's idea (Tess McGill, played by Melanie Griffith) as her own.  When Katharine is confronted by Oren Trask, the client Tess offered...

For many years, something was amiss with the Food and Beverage Listings in Westfield.  Cindy Gossard, Westfield's Incumbent Clerk-Treasurer, took it upon herself to begin speaking with the managers of the restaurants located in Greyhound Plaza only to discover that the...

I attended Tuesday’s “public forum” at Greek’s Pizzeria in Westfield to listen and participate in a discussion regarding the Mayor’s Grand Junction plan.  Fairly certain I may have looked like Linda Blair from the Exorcist with my head wildly spinning at the moment the...

Typically, an elected official in Hamilton County is a Republican, because we operate as a single-party county.  Yet, after careful consideration, one might assert that many are RINO’s (Republican in Name Only) at best.  Perhaps, it’s time we re-examine the tenants of...

While you were hustling and bustling to prepare for the upcoming holidays, the Westfield Washington Township Trustee and Board met on Thursday morning for an Executive Meeting followed by a Public Meeting.  (Thankfully at 10 AM, rather than 8.) The purpose of the meeti...

Washington Township’s $15 million-dollar bond received a rather gratuitous write up in

the local “newspaper” this week.  The article I’m referring to quotes Danielle Carey Tolan, the Washington Township Trustee, “But really, I don’t see $4 a year being a burden on someo...

As a follow-up to my article last week,  let’s get clear about what declaratory and confirmatory resolutions really are…the former asks you for permission to explore an idea and the latter confirms the idea is worth pursuing.  Generally, this process works but in the c...

In response to a recent blog post by Bill Smythe, I offer you the following opinion for consideration... At a time when the Washington Township Trustee, Danielle Carey Tolan, is making an appeal to the Department of Local Government Finance for an additional $20,000 in...