What Downtown Main Street Can Learn From "The Mall"

Steve Lagerfeld - The Atlantic Online.com

A guided tour with a landscape architect and retailing specialist who believes that shopping malls -- vilify them though we might -- can offer moribund cities what they desperately need: practical lessons in the psychology of commerce

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Andy Jordan? Port of Astoria Legal Counsel?

And this would be the same Andy Jordan we saw up on the Liberty Theater stage advising and doing the "Legal Guiding" of the, then, sitting Lee County Commission's initial hearings and deliberating of the proposed Bradwood Landing LNG Receiving Terminal and has been in on it since?

And now, here he and his firm are, the new, official, Legal Counsel f0r The Port of Astoria with Oregon LNG/Pipeline hearings and delibeations on the horizon with Clatsop County and City of Warrenton and we all know, contrary to how stupid the folks at PofA assume we are, that, that agency will not be immune from those discussions and with Jordan advising offers some concern in my view.

Wonder if Jordan's firm came up with the "Hearings Officer" concept for County and Warrenton to relieve the sitting members of both commissions the accountability of making another historic spontaneous and knowledgeable decision on what they were elected to do in the first place and then, who oversees the validity of the hearings officers decisions without the inevitable appeals and protracted battles especially when Clatsop County Planning Staff Recommends denial of the OLNG Pipeline project right off the top?

Astoria Ancestries

Ancestries: German (17.1%), Irish (13.9%), English (13.0%), United States (6.5%), Norwegian (5.9%), Scottish (5.8%).Read more: http://www.city-data.com/city/Astoria-Oregon.html#ixzz0unszh1Nw

Feds Paid "Dead" People's Electric Bills With Stimulus Money From Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program !!

Jul 1, 2010 1:31 pm US/Eastern

WASHINGTON DC - (CBS4)

It was designed to help poor families heat and cool their homes, but an audit of the federal program that provided more than $100 million went to pay electric bills of thousands of applicants who were dead, in prison or living in million-dollar mansions.

GRP: "The investigation found HHS paid thousands of dollars to people who were obviously ineligible for the program.
HHS paid $3.9 million to 11,000 applicants who used the identities of dead people.
HHS paid $370,000 to 725 applicants who were in prison.
HHS paid $671,000 to about 1,100 people who made more than the maximum income to qualify for the program. New Jersey paid $3,200 to a nursing home on behalf of eight patients after the home's director applied for assistance. The patients' nursing home care was already paid by Medicaid."
Can we even fathom the potential, once "The American Doctor" gets the gist of how to work "The System, of abuse of a "National Health Plan", once implemented?

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