Some in town hall are deliberately trying to mislead, while others don't know what they're talking about,   and for many both circumstances apply. On Thursday the town council will take on the allocation of the tax levy for F/Y09 tax factor, better known as the split ...

ANSWER;   He begins to hock the assets at twenty-five cents on the dollar. On Thursday the Barnstable council met in the Selectmen’s Conference room for dinner and to scheme for ways to make up for the $12 million shortfall to level fund next year’s school and municipal budgets. It seems t...

Dr.’s Chaturvedi have been on the wrong end of the news lately, and he wants President-Elect Obama to know his side of the issues. Dr. Rahul Chaturvedi wrote two missives; one to his staff asking they redact his letter, and the second his draft letter to Obama. COG feels that Joakim believers coul...

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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE The very reverend Arthur Kimber brought the airport terminal expansion through an Environmental Impact Report, and a Cape Cod Commission Development of Regional Impact (DRI). Deals were made with both the state and Barnstable County agencies. But with A...

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Yesterday (Thursday, July, 17, 2008) after returning from the Barnstable Airport where I spent an hour observing the infinitesmal number of passengers entering and leaving the airport terminal between 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM, I go...

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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The author of the Barnstable Beet blog, and Council President, Janet Joakim’s alter ego, in today's post admitted he lied when he accused me of altering a copied and pasted paragraph from his Sunday post. Following is the pa...

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