Special Meeting ALERT For Ron Jost And Jeff Noedel

Published by Jimmy Oldsun, NDRIRSRWRAFTC & Editor

ALERT ..... ALERT ..... ALERT ..... ALERT ..... ALERT ..... ALERT ..... ALERT ..... ALERT .....

Notice is hereby given to Presiding Commissioner Ron Jost and CNL Publisher Jeff Noedel that the Board of Directors of the Gasconade County Courthouse Society (GCCS) will gather together for a meeting at 7:00 p.m. on Monday evening June 21st.  The meeting will be held in the 2nd floor courtroom at the Gasconade County Courthouse in Hermann, MO.

Hermann Hearsay has confirmed the meeting date, time and location with Sharon Meyer, GCCS Secretary.  Ms. Meyer told us that GCCS President Dale Ridder has personally notified Ron Jost, an Ex-Officio Board Member of the GCCS.  Therefore there should be absolutely no repeat confusion on the part of Mr. Jost as to the date, time and location of this meeting.

Jeff Noedel of CNL is being alerted so that he too may make plans to attend.  Mr. Noedel has beat his chest in recent articles on his website about the need for greater openness by the GCCS and about the need to complete the clean-up work on the property immediately west of the courthouse grounds.  We suggest that Mr. Noedel attend the June 21st meeting so he can address his concerns directly with the GCCS Board of Directors rather than sneaking around "stirring the pot" and making meddlesome inquiries of building demolition permits at Hermann City Administration Offices.

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Photo Of The Day - Tuesday, 6/15/2010

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Gasconade County Horse

Name:  Unkown

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Laugh Of The Day - Tuesday, 6/15/2010

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"At my age flowers scare me."  ~ George Burns

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Quote Of The Day - Tuesday, 6/15/2010

Published by Lois Lame, SSALRCYTMVDQJCP & Assistant Editor

From 'The Strangest Secret' .....

"You become what think about most of the time."  ~ Earl Nightingale

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CNL Publisher Jeff Noedel Concerned About Clearing Land West Of Courthouse

Published by Jimmy Oldsun, NDRIRSRWRAFTC & Editor

Jeff Noedel, publisher, editor, and reporter for CNL, is concerned about the status of the GCCS-owned land west of the county courthouse.  His concern was expressed in an article he published on the CNL blog site Monday, 6/14/2010.  You may view Mr. Noedel's article by clicking on the following link:  http://www.countynewslive.com/content/2010/jun/14/courthouse-societys-second-or-third-extension-demolition-project-expires-july-1

It seems to us that Mr. Noedel is free to contact any duly elected officer of the GCCS at any time and inquire about the status of the building demolition project which is contracted to Eugene Jacquin of Hermann.  Hermann Hearsay wonders whether or not Noedel has done so.  We understand that he is fully aware that Dale Ridder is the current GCCS President, that Olan Stemme is the current GCCS Vice-President, that Glenn Warnebold (his former business partner) is the current GCCS Treasurer and that Sharon Meyer is the current GCCS Secretary. 

A good investigative reporter would have no problem picking up the telephone and contacting one of these people to inquire about the status of the project.  A good investigative reporter would have no problem attending a GCCS Board Meeting to inquire of the board members as to the status of the project.  But Mr. Noedel was not at the May Board Meeting.  He sent Alex Luft to the meeting in his stead.  Presumably therefore he is aware of the date, time and location for the June Board Meeting.  I look forward to seeing Mr. Noedel at the June meeting next week.  Perhaps he will seek clarification from the GCCS Board ...... but perhaps he will not and will just keep "stirring the pot" instead of reporting the news.  We could provide him their telephone numbers or email addresses if this would be helpful.

Hermann Hearsay asks the question ..... "Is CNL reporting the news or are they just stirring the pot?"  And if so, why?

By the way, Mr. Noedel, this may come as a real big surprise to you, but the GCCS and Eugene Jacquin are not your biggest worries by any stretch of the imagination if you are truly concerned about preparing the way for the new emergency access road to the courthouse.  I assure you that the GCCS and Eugene Jacquin will complete the project they have undertaken.  Let me remind you that Southern District Commissioner Lairmore and Presiding Commissioner Jost have long been opposed to spending money on the county courthouse in Hermann.  They have in the past supported efforts to move the county seat to Owensville.  After Proposition A failed to receive the required votes to pass in November of 2008, Lairmore and Jost have continued to drag their heels and obstruct efforts to preserve and restore the courthouse.  Hell, they begrudge spending more than $1,000 per year for courthouse maintenance!  This kind of intentional neglect of county assets ought to be criminal!  Recall shenanigans by Collector Schlottach, closely aided and abetted by Lairmore and Jost, to discredit and discourage use of citizen volunteers to clean up the courthouse and the grounds around the courthouse?  Recall your own personal involvement in concert with Schlottach, Laimore and Jost when Hermann Hearsay made fun of allegations against courthouse volunteers in our article about the 'Courthouse Cat Burglary'?  (Thought we didn't know about your role in that little ambush conspiracy back then, didn't you?)  Recall obstruction tactics by Lairmore and Jost when Northern District Commissioner Matt Penning tried to put together a plan and recruit skilled volunteers as well as material donations to upgrade the second floor courtroom?  Recall Lairmore's bold proclamation that certain citizen volunteers would never again do volunteer work at the courthouse?  Recall Lairmore's pretense to care about courthouse employee safety when he enlisted Horace Brown (a UMR engineering student) to do an engineering study and prepare an estimate for the courthouse emergency access road?  By the way, whatever happened to ol' Horace?  Whatever happened to the product of his efforts?  Did he graduate?  I don't recall that Horace ever presented his findings before the County Commission in open session.  Perhaps Commissioner Lairmore can give us an update on Horace's student project during a County Commission meeting.

No, Mr. Noedel, you are barking up the wrong tree!  Surely you are smart enough to realize that  Lairmore and Jost are the problem with respect to county courthouse improvements.  Replace Lairmore and Jost on the County Commission, and we can move ahead here in Gasconade County!  We will have the opportunity to replace Jost on August 3rd.  We will have the opportunity to replace Lairmore in 2012.  Mr. Noedel, if you want to write an article, write an article about that ..... if you're not too beholding to Commissioners Lairmore and Jost, if you're not too afraid to write the truth!

Lois Lame Promoted To Assistant Editor

Published by Jimmy Oldsun, NDRIRSRWRAFTC & Editor

Hermann Hearsay is pleased to announce that Lois Lame has been promoted to the position of Assistant Editor.  We are a small news organization, and therefore Lois will retain all of her current duties.

Lois' new title is:  Subscriber Services, Advertising, Lifestyles Reporting, Cool YouTube Music Videos, Daily Quotes, Jokes, Cool Photos and Assistant Editor.  Lois now has a title longer than mine!  But she deserves it!  She has really worked hard, and she does a great job covering for me when I am off on R&R.

In order to fit her title on a business card, we have been forced to abbreviate as follows:  SSALRCYTMVDQJCP & Assistant Editor.

Please join us down at The Bank Bar on Schiller Street this Friday night to celebrate Lois' well-deserved promotion!

Photo Of The Day - Monday, 6/14/2010

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Underwater Photo of Continuing BP Oil Spill

An image which is sickening to all of us everyday that we see live video footage of it on TV

Laugh Of The Day - Monday, 6/14/2010

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"Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president."  ~ Johnny Carson

Quote Of The Day - Monday, 6/14/2010

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"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know.  The only ones among you who will be fulfilled and happy will be those who have sought and found how to serve others."  ~ Dr. Albert Schweitzer

Editorial Comment - Coverage of Larry Miskel's Campaign Kickoff

Published by Jimmy Oldsun, NDRIRSRWRAFTC & Editor

Larry Miskel kicked off his election campaign for the position of Presiding Commissioner of Gasconade County this past Sunday afternoon at Swiss Meat and Sausage Company in Swiss.  I was out of town for the weekend, so I didn't have a chance to attend.  In the interest of full disclosure, I need to remind you that Hermann Hearsay earlier endorsed Miskel to unseat Ron Jost.  We here at HH are huge supporters of Larry Miskel and huge detractors of Ron Jost, a man who has done very little to move Gasconade County forward.

This editorial comment is not about Larry Miskel's campaign kickoff.  Rather it is about the highly questionable press coverage his campaign kickoff received.  Hermann News and The Hermann Advertiser-Courier chose NOT to cover the event.  CNL did choose to cover the event, but I didn't care for the way they covered it.
 
Had I been able to attend Sunday's event, I would have had the good "journalistic judgment" to refrain from publishing the names of citizens who attended.  I would have chosen not to publish attendees' names for three very important reasons:

1. The important story is NOT who attended the campaign kickoff.  The important story is that Ron Jost, current Presiding Commissioner, has strong competition in the August Republican primary.  The story is that the challenger, Larry Miskel, the current Mayor of Hermann, is a very credible candidate.  Hermann Hearsay believes that Miskel has superior credentials in every respect ..... past experience, education and temperment.
2. The news story should NOT be who attended the campaign kickoff.  Rather it should be about what Larry Miskel had to say about the current condition of Gasconade County as well as his ideas and plans to move the county forward should he succeed in his bid to unseat incumbent Presiding Commissioner Ron Jost.  Reading CNL's report on the event, one is given the impression that Miskel did not enumerate his position on the issues.  And if he didn't get specific on the issues, why didn't CNL press him to do so?  Maybe CNL isn't quite the news organization they purport to be!
3. The story should NOT be about the individuals who attended the campaign kickoff.  Most of the individuals who attended the event are private citizens.  Most do NOT hold public office.  As private citizens, these individuals should be able to attend a political campaign event without having their names plastered all over a "news" article about the event.  These private citizens should NOT have their political campaign involvement and personal support of  candidates disclosed in a "news" article, a "news" article which ought to be more about the candidate and his public positions than those who support him.  Inclusion of attendee names in such reports about political events can have a "chilling" effect on attendance.  Some people, for various personal and business reasons, do not want to advertise their political preferences.  If the media focuses on political event attendance, then people who attend political events may become intimidated and they may choose not to get involved in politics.  And this would be a sad consequence for the health of America's political system

Had I been able to attend Miskel's campaign event, I would have had the good journalistic judgment to report to you more of what the candidate actually had to say about county issues.  Rather than picking out relatively insignificant statements like ..... "The County needs my help. We'll be running hard until August 3. I've already eaten a lot of fish sandwiches and homemade ice cream.", with nothing more about what Miskel went on to say, I would have given you the entirety of his reported "brief remarks".  The important storyline is what Miskel sees wrong with Gasconade County and what he intends to do about it, NOT that he has eaten a "lot of fish sandwiches and homemade ice cream".

But some "journalists" have personal agendas, now don't they?  Some "journalists" report what they want to report, what they want you to know as oppose to what you really should know.  So what is the personal agenda of a "journalist" who goes out of his way to report to you the names of Gasconade County citizens who attended a local political event hosted by a challenger for the office of Presiding Commissioner?  What is the agenda of a "journalist" who intentially limits what he reports regarding the candidate's full remarks?  Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

Be careful what you read on other daily online so-called "news" sites!  Reading their "news" reports could actually be harmful to your correct understanding of those news events!  What you read could have been under-reported.  What you read could have been mis-reported.  What you read could be someone's personal "spin" on the news!

At Hermann Hearsay, we call 'em the way we see 'em!  We don't like "journalists" who "spin" the news.  They give all the rest of us a bad name!

Willie Nelson - Amazing Grace

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Once again, it's Willie Nelson Sunday!  Here's Willie singing 'Amazing Grace' ......

Photo Of The Day - 6/12/2010

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Harry Connick, Jr.

Photo emailed to Hermann Hearsay this morning by Jimmy Oldsun.

Jimmy attended the Harry Connick, Jr. Concert at the Fox Theatre Friday night.

Laugh Of The Day - 6/12/2010

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"Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad."  ~ W. C. Fields

Quote Of The Day - 6/12/2010

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"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."  ~ Samuel Adams

Photo Of The Day - Friday, 6/11/2010

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Truman the Tiger

Is Truman headed to the Big 10 or will he stay in the Big 12?

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Laugh Of The Day - Friday, 6/11/2010

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"Who wants to look at dinky little pictures?"  ~ Jeff Noedel, Publisher CNL, 6/10/2010

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Quote Of The Day - Friday, 6/11/2010

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"Never, never, never quit!"  ~ Winston Churchill

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Er uh, Mr. Noedel, please excuse me, but did you know that .......

Published by Lois Lame, Subscriber Services, Advertising, Lifestyles Reporting, Cool YouTube Music Videos and Daily Quotes, Jokes and Cool Photos

..... your 7 inches is really only 5.125 inches!

You touted your 7 inch photos recently at CNL while at the same time disparaging "postage-size" photos on "other" sites.  However, when I put a tape measure up to the photo you displayed in your article, I came up with a measurement of 5.125 inches.  Now that was with my laptop "zoom level" set at 100%.  Maybe you are using a 125% or 150% "zoom level".  Everything looks bigger with higher "zoom levels"!

Hermann Hearsay nation, don't be fooled by wildly exaggerated claims on competing local news sites!  Check 'em out with your tape measure like we do!

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Plans forThree Day Weekend

Published by Jimmy Oldsun, NDRIRSRWRAFTC & Editor

I will be out of town for three days of R&R this weekend.  Don't worry though.  I'm putting Lois Lame in charge while I'm gone.  If she does real well (as I'm sure she will), we may pomote her to Assistant Editor.  We'll allow her to retain all of her current responsibilities and give her a meager pay increase.  Don't worry about this either.  We won't increase her pay so much that it will force us to raise our subscription rates.  Nope!  We are always looking out for your best interests!  Hermann Hearsay pledges to remain the low-cost publisher in the local news market!

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Gasconade County Commissioners' Meeting - 6/10/2010

Published by Dick Schaefer, Contributing Writer and Part-Time Amateur Investigative Reporter

In my first big reporting assignment with Hermann Hearsay, I had the great misfortune of having to cover this morning's County Commissioners' Meeting.  What a bummer!  Jimmy, couldn't you have assigned me to the sports beat or the restaurant review beat or maybe the massage parlor review beat?!

The last time I attended one of the County Commissioners' meetings was way back in September of 2009.  I was reminded this morning why I stopped attending.  Can you say ...... B-O-R-I-N-G?!!!

If you really want to know the excrutiatingly dull details about how the meeting began at 8:30 am with the 'Pledge of Allegiance', immediately followed by the reading of the minutes from the June 3rd meeting in Owensville, followed by Southern District Commissioner Jerry Lairmore's motion (seconded by Northern District Commissioner Matt Penning) that the county pay its bills (Of course, we should pay our damned bills!), followed by Presiding Commissoner Ron Jost's monotone summary of the Road Department Meeting in Drake, etc. etc. etc., then you can go to one of the other online local news sites for that report.

I just don't have the patience nor the discipline for news reporting ...... at least not for reporting on Gasconade County Commissioners' Meetings.  I have no interest in reporting to you the kind of mindless trivia that gets discussed at these open and public meetings.  Other reporters can regurgitate all that relatively insignificant "stuff" to you if they choose to do so.  But not me!  Besides, if I were to report all the details, I would have to tell you how woefully ill-prepared the Presiding Commissioner is when it comes to leading the meeting.  He reads correspondence during the meeting rather than doing his homework by reading that stuff prior to the meeting.  He doesn't move the meeting along efficiently.  There are many pregnant pauses during the meetings while he fumbles with his papers.  He has never properly and officially adjourned a commissioners' meeting.  He never calls for a motion to adjourn the meeting.  Rather he just slams the gavel and adjourns it.  Larry Miskel can't take over too soon!

Oh, I can tell you that I tried real hard.  I even took Hermann Hearsay's new digital voice recorder to the meeting.  I intended to report every little detail of the meeting.  But I just can't bring myself to doing so.  Nope, I will not allow myself to be used by these politicians for the purpose of reporting to the public only those few trivial subjects which they choose to dicuss in their public meeting!

Instead of the stuff that was discussed in this morning's meeting, let me tell you some of the subjects that were NOT discussed by our three county commissioners.  I feel it is much more important and instructive to tell you what was NOT discussed.  This is where the "real story" lies and perhaps that's why Presiding Commissioner Ron Jost doesn't put these subjects on the agenda!  Afterall it's easier to talk about which county road needs gravel or rock, the status of Lesa Lietzow's office refrigerator, the need to provide custodian Dennis Kattelman some help cutting the brush on the south hillside in front of the courthouse, etc.  But my friends, I have a pretty good 'Bull Shit Meter'.  I know when I'm being B.S.'d, and I know when politicians are covering up the real stories!

Some of the more important subjects which were NOT discussed and which are rarely discussed:

1. the status of the courthouse preservation and restoration project and Presiding Commissioner Jost's work with the GCCS (By the way Ron, don't forget to attend the 6/21 meeting of the GCCS!  I'm sure you have received an invitation as you did for the May meeting, a meeting you ignored!),
2. the status of the project to fund and construct the much needed courthouse emergency access road (We really should get this project done before someone dies or a fire destroys a major portion of the courthouse because we can't get the fire trucks up the hill!),
3. the current county budget status at mid-year (Guess what Commissioners!  Your 2010 budget is already in trouble!  You'll probably figure that out in October, Ron!)
4. the status of projects to address glaring outages found during the 2002 and 2006 state audits (Oh hell, Ron, why do anything about all that pesky stuff right now?!  We'll soon have the results and recommendations from our 2010 state audit, an audit which you can also ignore!), and
5. Oh, fiddle faddle!  I could go on and on, but I don't believe in "piling on"!

Jimmy, please!!!  You gotta get me off this County Commission news beat!  After just one meeting, I am already tearing my hair out!  And I really don't have that much left!

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