Speak Out 4/15/15

Schrieber

has backbone

Yes. Good morning, Speak Out. My wife and I moved here four years ago to Poplar Bluff. I heard a lot of good things about it. I thought we would really enjoy it, but with the city council acting the way it is and the new city manager, Mr. Kaplan, wanting to raise utilities and everybody's taxes and everything, what happened to a voted position? I don't know if everybody's hands are dirty or what, but I congratulate Mr. Don Schrieber for speaking out and standing up to say what nobody else in the community can. He's a man with a backbone.

If you want to see someone's future and what they produce, look at their past. What did Mr. Kaplan lie about or did somebody fail to do their job to look at his past? How can he lead us as a city of success when he can't lead his own life that way? And I don't know what the city council is trying to do, but they're saying they won't raise everybody's rates and now they want a 20 percent increase? That's absurd!

Well, congratulations, Mr. Schrieber. I hope you keep standing up for us. You seem to get the point across a lot of us can't. Keep doing the great work, sir. Hats off to you!

Ok with the

license office

Speak Out, you know I guess everyone has to use the local license office or drive to Doniphan or Malden or you know wherever, but I've never felt the need to go out of town. Sometimes the folks out there are really busy, but I've never felt like I was being, you know, ignored or if they weren't doing something. This sorta looks like a beginning of a movement, if you will, to turn the license bureau over to another operator. Maybe the folks working there, since the faces seem to stay the same regardless of who has the contract, maybe they just don't like the people they're working for right now.

I would suggest that possibly a room divider would be useful because, I'm smart enough to realize that people have off-counter work to do in a place like that and they really need to be where they are not viewable to the public because a lot of people aren't smart enough to understand that just because there are employees back there they are not free to help you. You know, they're takin' care of business that doesn't involve you and that might be helpful.

Cometh help

in time of need

It didn't do a lot of good to call those numbers for the councilmen because they all went to voice mail and Mr. Kaplan was out to lunch. But Ed and Betty both answered their phones. You can see where the helps gonna come from.