Cliffs Riffs - Stuph n Nonsense

The word of the day is Obfuscate:  Definition of   obfuscate 1 a :  to throw into shadow  :  DARKEN b :  to make obscure obfuscate  the issue 2 :  CONFUSE obfuscate  the reader   Intentionally or not, the Unity School investors and their attorney(s) are masters of obfuscation. By messing with timelines, or ignoring them, and jumbling up the order in which things happened they can put forth a good story that makes them look like victims. See my notes below. One of the condo partners left me this comment along with a copy of what their attorney read to the Planning Commission on Monday June 10.  Below that please see an email from Mr. Zandstra to City Manager Mike Burns - notice the email is copied to Todd Schaal - Zandstra's partner in the project.  I have highlighted the portion in red that gets under my skin - the attorney attempted to discredit by obfuscation my earlier posting about the demand that the...

I have been on the City Council now for a little over half a year. Still learning new things every week.  It has come to my attention that some folks in Lowell believe the City Council is holding up progress when it comes to the proposed condo project on the Riverwalk in the old school buildings. Bull-shizzle. Not the case at all. Let me give you a bit of a time line to demonstrate how much City Manager Mike Burns, the DDA, and the City Council have been trying their best to make the condo project a reality. 1. I was a board member of the DDA (Downtown Development Authority) for a couple years before being appointed to fill Jeff Phillips council seat late last year. While on the DDA, Mike Burns came to us with the recommendation that we become a recognized Brownfield site. In short, doing so would allow anyone purchasing a building or buildings with something like asbestos in it to be able to apply for and easily receive tax credits to offset the expense of asbestos abatement. ...