Questions pothole repairs in city of Medford

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What is in the secret sauce the City of Medford is using to fill potholes? It appears to be pea gravel and some sticky black substance. The sticky black substance may be drain oil from my Chevy Cobalt. Anyway, the secret sauce being employed to fill potholes is not working very well. The material sticks to your tires, gets dragged up the street, and even ends up on the floor mats of your car.

I don’t claim to be an expert in the emerging science of repairing and rehabilitating those annoying round shaped holes in pavement. However, the secret sauce employed by the City of Medford would appear to need some sand added to the formula. Also, in applying the secret sauce to repair potholes an excess amount of material is being applied, in my humble opinion. Instead of your wheels falling into a hole they now roll over a bump. Believe it or not there are videos on YouTube on how to repair a porthole in a road.

I will decline, in advance, any generous offer from the City of Medford to show them how it’s done.

Any person running for elected office that is willing to close the dark store loophole has my vote. Be they Republican or Democrat.

Every year the citizens and other businesses of the Medford area pack up and ship approximately $30,000 down to Bentonville, Arkansas as the Medford Wal-Mart exercises the dark store loophole. That is crazy. Every store that exercises the dark store loophole can afford to pull their weight. These stores receive police and fire protection, snow plowing, street repair (with the pothole repair secret sauce), and education of future employees in our public schools.

School Board member Brian Hallgren wants you to send him a thank you card for lowering your property taxes. Most likely he would prefer a Hallmark card as that shows you care enough to send the very best. I dunno, isn’t holding down school spending and hence property taxes one of the duties of being a school board member?

If you are familiar with the George Orwell novel 1984 you will know about The Ministry of Truth in the book. The purpose of the Ministry of Truth in the book is the falsification of history and to have a propaganda effect.

Our administration in Washington, DC proposed it’s own Ministry of Truth to be called the Disinformation Governance Board under the direction of the Department of Homeland Security. The idea of the government generating something of this nature should scare the heck out of every freedom loving American citizen.

Thank you Wisconsin seventh district congressman Tom Tiffany. You tried. Congressman Tiffany was one of only ten members of Congress to vote against article S.3522 which authorizes the President to lend or lease defense articles to the government of Ukraine. Keep this in mind should this conflict widen. We are now a belligerent with Russia by providing armaments to it’s adversary. Not humanitarian aid, but weapons. With this we are now officially at war with Russia.

— Bryan Bormann, Medford