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Readers Speak Out! [Fall 2023]

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    • Obama, aged 20yrs over two terms.
      Joe looks lost and scared all the time, especially the last couple of months it’s inhumane too let him drive the car.
      Not safe for us either.

  5. Anybody who believes ANYTHING the Democrats say is a blooming idiot and fool that let the country go to hell.

    • Please don’t bring me back like the Woolly Mammoth, today’s dems are not my Democratic Party.

  6. Now he wants to raise our taxes in Scamcaster? To pay for his party center at the fairgrounds? Hasn’t he wasted enough of our money? Why doesn’t he stay in Lagunna and leave us alone.

    • It was probably bought. Just read about the Visco(& other Lancaster players)new criminal case. Time to get the grifters out of power. If we made them pay, the money could go towards many deficits our city/state/county are facing instead of it coming out of our taxes. BYD/Air Quality Board/AVTA/School Boards/ Waste management/Solar Projects etc-milillons. Readers it’s time to speak out!

  8. When you have to wait six weeks to see a doctor, you know our health care system is over run by illegal aliens. Thanks Joe Biden.

  9. Did that sheriff that Rexx said was shot by someone living in the mental health housing next to the sheriff station ever recover from his wounds? Rexx was on TV saying he was hit in the shoulder and in great pain.

  10. BYD workers on strike. Rexx’s commie company is in turmoil. Why does everything turn to crapp in Lancaster?

  13. Now the AVTA is a fiscal mess. Why does everything Ray and Marve touch turn to crapolla?

  14. USA broken. Socialist and communist democrats destroyed it to c!ing to power. No more fairness or justice. Don’t want to share a country with these gay treasonous snakes.

  15. Why is Wrecks changing the time of the Lancaster council meeting to the middle of the day? Is he afraid that the 65 percent of the voters who rejected him will show up and challenge his bizarre policies?

  20. Rex destroyed the Antelope Valley. Recall him and remove his minions Marv, Ken, Leslie and Raj.

  23. Now that the AV Times comment section is back, allow me to be the first to say that Rex only got 34.7 percent of the vote in the election. He’s an incumbent who spent 100 times more than anyone else and was rejected by the vast majority of voters. With reports of people not receiving ballots for unknown reasons, his pathetic numbers, and the history of corruption, wasted money, no bid contracts, nepotism, cronyism, lies, bullying, and stupid projects like LEAPS, Ecolution, bird sounds, Traction Seal, his police farce and so on, it’s time to RECALL REX!

  27. If the people who are working on Rex’s campaign ads can create and send them out with a straight face, they have incredible self control. In all my years of living through political campaigns in the Antelope Valley, there have been no more idiotic, delusional, and misinforming ads than the ones coming from his campaign. They can’t seriously believe this crapola, can they?

    • I crack up every time I see the “We’re not done yet” slogan. Like, there are a couple nickles left in the city treasury that rolled under a shelf into some dusty corner, but if Wrecks can get just one more term him and his crew will loot those too.

  28. Come one, come all the the No More Rexx parade on Saturday, March 23 from noon to 2 pm. Meet at the corner of West Avenue K and 10th Street West. Bring your signs and help us send him back to Laguna.

    • Lancaster voters, please consider making copy of your ballot before mailing or placing in a ballot box.
      Documentation is everything if or when election results are in questioned or challenged!

  29. You gotta love Rexx for throwing a big party to get votes from the Hispanic community. He thinks he’s like the PRI in back in the day in Mexico. Instead of pandering, maybe paying attention to where your Hispanic residents live. Many live in East Lancaster which has no representation on the council and has been ignored since 2008. Hispanics will send a resounding message this election and send Rexx packing to Laguna.

  30. The two lead stories on the 5 o’clock news tonight. Stabbing in Lancaster, gunshots at Walmart in Lancaster. And Rex says he isn’t finished yet? We’re finished with him. Vote Rex Out!

  31. Why is the mayor of Lancaster doing ads claiming that Ervin is a defund the police candidate and that he has a record? Doesn’t the mayor of Lancaster have a checkered past with substances? Isn’t his vice mayor one of the fire personnel involved with the incident at Plant 42? Stop with the piety already. The mayor has failed us and the people know it. This year we will send him home to Laguna.

  32. How many lies did the mayor tell at tonight’s council meeting? His reality is not reality. For him to shame a person for posting ‘vile’ comments, which were not vile but critical of the mayor, shows how out of touch and disingenuous this man is. He needs to go away.

    • The way he treats people is disgusting. It’s not like he’s done a good job as mayor. What has worked? Not LEAPS, not Traction Seal, not his war on gangs and Section 8, not bird sounds on the BLVD, not Ecolution. All he talks about are bike lanes and hydrogen, which is fine except those aren’t the pressing needs in the community. Crime, homelessness, jobs, blight, and roads. He has failed and he needs to be replaced with someone who cares and who lives here year round.

    • For over 15 years, we have had a public meeting, the city council meeting, turned into a night with Rex who says “we aren’t done yet.” We are done with you, Bub! Don’t let the door hit you going out!

      • That is so true, iconoclast. He had the audacity to call out a resident for posting what he called ‘vile’ remarks on social media. Those remarks were not ‘vile’. They were critical of the mayor, and rightfully so. If anyone has made vile remarks it is Rex himself. His latest attack on Johnathan Ervin is truly vile. I hope you help vote Rex out. Tell everyone you know.

  33. Holy moly! It looks like the Godfather Frank V. is in a lawsuit for misuse of money with public funds. He’s Rexx’s buddy and contributor. It could get very interesting. Pictures of the lawsuit are posted on Facebook on the Get Parris Out of Lancaster page. Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  34. I was driving down 10th St West on Saturday and saw a group of people with signs bashing Rex. It was a sight to behold. I honked and gave them the thumbs up. Many other cars were also honking in support. There’s a lot of people who want him gone, myself included. I hope people vote this time. Lancaster’s turnout is abysmal.

    • I don’t know how the mayor can tell us with a straight face that crime is going down. Then again, I do know how. Telling the truth is not his strong suit.

      • Remember this is the guy who took time from his duties to go greet his hero…Trump at the airport a few years back and shake his hand. Neither care about the lies they tell as long as they have ignorant people supporting them. He should sue himself for liable.

  36. So it looks like our Laguna living mayor blew off the mayoral forum held at AVC. It appears he doesn’t like environments he can’t control. Now he is granting an interview with AV News Crew BUT all questions are being submitted in advance. What a joke! He is using them as a mouthpiece to spew more nonsense, like how “safe” Lancaster is. Really? Do YOU feel safe in Lancaster? Is there any media outlet who will ask him the tough questions without having him control the interview?

    • Sounds like the mayor is scared. That’s why he rarely shows up to anything unless its a photo op.

    • Oh no not the AV News Crew too? Who doesn’t he own around here? It’s so depressing to realize we are stuck with him and his network that only care about themselves.

      • Look at the advertising revenue stream that Wrecks can direct to, or withhold from, any local media outlet. Not from his campaign, from his law firm. Any media outlet that won’t help him faces a serious threat to their financial survival.

        • That is true, Tim, but I thought the AV News Crew was above that. I guess I was wrong.

        • Stupidity abounds in this comment. Other than billboard advertising there’s no revenue intimidation from a ambulance chasing lawyer.

  37. Looks like Rexie was a no show at the Lancaster mayor’s forum last night. Was it because he’s so afraid to be confronted by the residents or it was too far of a drive from Laguna?

  39. The chirps subconsciously discourage criminality. Everybody is now in a better mood, a better place. We’re not seeing that impulse-control crime. – RRP

    • Most criminals live in state of constant chirping, it seemingly does not affect them.

  40. Entropy has completed its long march to dominance.
    AV history stopped on February 5th 2024

  41. Well, well, well. This is a first. A Never Again Paris parade on Saturday, March 1 at noon at Steve Owen park. People are going to deck out their cars and then march. Of course, he’ll be in Laguna and won’t see it, but maybe people will notice and vote him out. We can only hope.

    • I’ve gotta go to the Outback Plantation open house in Tonopah AZ that day, otherwise I wouldn’t go.

    • Is there a Grand Marshall for the Never Again Parris parade? How about Raymond Lee Jennings? Or Johnathan Ervin? Randy Floyd? Esmeralda Jorge? David Grejeda? Jim Ledford? At least one of the people Rexx ruined should lead the procession.

      • Yeah bring Raymond Lee Jennings. That poor guy, I knew from begging be did not have anything to do with it.

        • Rexx sure did mess him up. He cost him 11 years behind bar for a crime he didn’t commit. Yet Rexx lives large in Laguna. It’s not just Jennings who Rexx destroyed. Randy Floyd, Esmeralda Jorge, Jonahthan Ervin, Jim Ledford, David Grejeda, and Steve Hoffbower were all used, misused, abused and run out by the man from Laguna. It’s time to send him packing to his beach mansion for good and let the hard working people of Lancaster have their city back. Especially the people in East Lancaster who have been ignored during his reign.

        • Jennings was one of several people who had their lives ruined and careers destroyed thanks to Parrris. No one has done more damage to our community than the mayor from Laguna.

  42. How was Rexx allowed to purchase the old McMahon’s Furniture building for his new office? The McMahon building was in a redevelopment zone when we had redevelopment in California. Rexx was one of Lancaster’s officers on the redevelopment board and it was illegal for a board member to purchase redevelopment property. How did this happen?

    • He bought it because no one in this Valley will dare bring it up to the authorities. He contributes to all the local politicians and judges so there is no one who will make things like this an issue.

  44. You know it’s election time in Lankaster when Wrecks is ‘considering’ voting districts. Of course the threat of being sued obviously pushed him. But it’s more smoke an mirrors from the AV’s best BS artist.

  45. Since 2008, Lancaster has had the highest crime rate in the AV. It still does. There are more than a thousand part one crimes more in Lancaster than Palmdale. Apparently, birds on the BLVD, the Eye in the Sky, the war on Section 8 and gangs, and false bravado from our mayor have not worked.

      • Yes, Lancaster has more white people. Palmdale has more minorities. Palmdale’s crime rate is lower.

          • ….maybe if the mental health people living in the housing next to the sheriff station would just stop shooting deputies, crime would be lower. Oh wait….there was no shooting. But if there were, you can bet Truth and the like would blame it on the demographics of Lancaster.

          • So that’s why Lancaster’s crime is so high, Truth? No white people, Hispanic people or Asian people commit crimes? You have an interesting way of thinking that fits in well with the power structure of this pathetic city.

          • @Correct, it’s odd that Raleigh, Pittsburgh, Jersey City an others with similar demos to Lancaster have lower crime rates. What Lancaster lacks is a leader who isn’t a bully and who can relate to and work with people of all backgrounds. This mayor is happier in Laguna where he doesn’t have to work with people who aren’t like him.

    • Maybe he should have tried keeping the motorcycle clubs here they have a tendency to not want people to ruin their neighborhoods maybe that would have worked since nothing else he’s tried has

  46. “Make no mistake people who deliberately violate the social distancing laws, and the laws requiring that we all wear a mask will be identified, arrested and prosecuted,” rexx’s post said. “Do not mess with us. You will not endanger the lives of our hardworking families because of some misguided civil liberties argument. The quote is: Give me Liberty or Give me Death. Being arrested and locked up in an over crowded jail just might result in granting you your wish.”

  47. Parris once proposed a ‘birth tourism’ concept so Chinese could give birth at Lancaster’s hospital to give their babies US citizenship.

    • Dr. Farrukh and Parris hairbrained idea was going to save the financially strapped Health Care District by paying big bucks to the hospital district and where the mothers were to recover. I’m sure Rex had a angle besides selling citizenship to the Chinese.

      • Looks like the hospital survived without this bird brained scheme. At least Farrukh was up front about it. Pariss denied, denied, denied. He is not worth of holding office.

  48. “Rex Parris would make a great Chinese mayor. He’s fully in that groove.” said Matt Sheehan, author of The Transpacific Experiment: How China and California Collaborate and Compete for Our Future. “He’s a schemer”

  49. Good things happen when you’re able to increase your Asian population to a certain threshold: Crime rates go down, education levels go up. Interestingly, the same thing happens with the gays. That’s why I put the new performing arts center right downtown.

    • so, does a gay asian in the community compound the effect in geometric or arithmetic proportion?

      Blue Whale (gay) #C45-20102SPN

      • Good question that is very complicated. Maybe our all knowing mayor rexx can expound on his theory of the gays + asians = lower crime. Apparently it’s not working. Lancaster is a hot crime mess.

          • Maybe it’s because he’s a whack job and has failed so miserably on crime he has to fall back on racial and sexual stereotypes to mask a disasterous track record.

          • So how is Rex Parris supposed to stop the criminal element within the black community from entering Lancaster? Checkpoints? A wall? A fence?

            Short of any of those things, there’s nothing he can do about the crime they bring.

          • He doesn’t appear to like black or brown people. Or white people who speak up against him. You have to wonder if he likes anyone. He uses people to further his selfish gain. It will be pure joy when he is no longer mayor.

  50. The feckless, weak, appeasing, obsequious and woke Biden administration is totally and solely responsible for the deaths of 3 Americans at the hands of Iran. What a bunch of transgender weenies while the world laughs at us.

    • Biden is responsible for 10 million illegal aliens, terrorists, criminals, gang members, drug smugglers and rapists invading our country. He wants to devalue American citizenship and destroy our country from within.

    • Israel is no better than Iran, though.
      We need to cut ties with ALL these woke countries…all they ever do is get us into foreign wars, cost US taxpayers money.
      Ukraine, Ghana, Sudan, the entire thing.
      And Saudi Arabia too…always remember (never forget) is was a group of Saudis that piloted jetliners into the twin towers.
      America First! Trump 2024!

    • Trump will fix USA. If it means suspending the Constitution, then I am there for the ride.

  51. A blast from the past.

    Earlier today a sniper from the Mental Health America facility took a shot at one of our deputies and hit him in the chest. He fortunately was wearing a vest. The vest saved his life, but the bullet did deflect into his shoulder. I saw him at the emergency room probably within 20 minutes of the event and he was talking. They expected that he will be fine. He was in a great deal of pain, obviously.

    Right now they contained the building. They think the suspect is still in the apartment complex . The apartment complex is a facility for people with mental health problems, so obviously it’s a very difficult tactical situation for the sheriff’s department. They responded incredibly fast. We’ve got well over 100 deputies on the scene now. They expect he’ll either be taken into custody or it’ll be resolved some other way within a short period of time.

  52. Get to ponying up MAGAts. Your dear leader just got hammered with an EIGHTY THREE MILLION DOLLAR judgement, so bust out those checkbooks and make some ‘campaign donations.’

    • “What they did to the Capitol building, thank God they didn’t do in Lancaster because there would be a much higher death toll.”

    • “He has a magnetic personality that is quite astonishing. The person you see in person is not the person you see on television. He’s not the person you see on Twitter. He was incredibly charming.”

    • lol!
      You’re celebrating that turd of a ruling.

      Anybody with half a brain can see right through that leftist lawfare hack job, lol!

      • lol!

        I can think of 83 million reasons to laugh.
        what are yours, comrade?

        I wonder what that pencils out to per hour for the few minutes Donny was getting his ya-yas out for? Say it was 12 minutes…. That’s $415M per hour.

        The doofus Trump will never ever make that kind of coin in his entire life of cheating and graft.

  53. So now Rexxx is bragging about the city using a drone to locate the homeless. At least he’s not using the useless Eye in the Sky. He’s got that going for him. But Rexx, the homeless are PEOPLE. They are in plain sight at Boeing Square, off the freeways along the 14 by Valley Central Way and in the area east of the 14 near Ave. G. WHY DON’T YOU JUST SEND PEOPLE OUT TO HELP THEM? Go out there with resources for mental health, medical health, and housing vouchers. Speak to them. If you hadn’t taken the million dollars from the county for the shelter and then shut it down, they could be at the shelter. Or if you had used the $31 million to build a 700 bed shelter on Ave. I rather than giving a no bid contract to your pal for a 140 bed pay to say place, you could take them there.
    Stop acting like you care. You don’t and everyone knows it. Just go back to Laguna and have a great time.

  54. I spend a lot of hours every week on an elliptical or a bike just to increase blood flow to my brain and it turns out every morning when I put on a tie I’m diminishing it.

    • We should go riding together to increase our blood flow within our bodies. I felt I should point out the within our bodies part just in case anybody had any silly ideas that I wanted my blood flowing out of my body because there’s a lot of seriously mentally ill people in this town that may get the wrong impression and that’s not what I was saying at all crazy people just for the record.

      • A number of solid posts…nice to ‘meet’ you Cat. Just information; I’m pretty sure all the posts from ‘Raise Nutts’ are just quotes from the mayor of Lancaster, Ray Parris, who does seam to be nuts.

    • If you’re wearing a necktie and it’s cutting off circulation to your brain, your collar isn’t the proper size. It’s too tight. Don’t blame the tie.

    • I beg to differ. As someone born and raised in Anaheim two blocks away from Disneyland yet living in antelope valley for about 30 years or so I can say without question and through personal experience that Disneyland is much much better than the boulevard. Granted Disneyland’s characters are nowhere near as interesting as those on the boulevard but at least they won’t try to rob you or crap in your shoe. And in Richard’s defense well yes I feel that it should be a law that you have to live in the town that you are mayor of but since it is not a law and since Rex does have a choice I can’t blame him one bit for choosing to live in Laguna rather than Lancaster who wouldn’t. I used to spend a lot of time up the street from the section of Laguna where he lives Crystal cove and I can say with no question I’d go back in a minute and Lancaster would never hear from me again.

  56. So he put a pickleball court in on his Lancaster property. That’s nice. Now how about taking care of our crime? We’re one of the 10 most dangerous cities in California. If you haven’t been the the BLVD in a while, there’s lots of homeless, bangers, feces and trash. Our roads can use some help too.

  57. Since he has been mayor, Lancaster has become one of the 10 most dangerous cities in California. It’s time for him to retire to his beach mansion in Laguna.

  58. I spend a lot of hours every week on an elliptical or a bike just to increase blood flow to my brain, and it turns out every morning when I put on a tie I’m diminishing it.

  59. According to R. Rex Parris, the recorded bird chirping sounds on the BLVD subconsciously discourages criminality by fine-tuning brain chemicals. “Everybody is now in a better mood, a better place,” he says.

  60. JPMorgan boss and big Democrat donor Jamie Dimon says ‘negative talk about MAGA’ will hurt Biden’s campaign and admits Trump was ‘right about NATO, immigration, China and he grew the economy quite well’

    • “Just take a step back and be honest: He was kind of right about NATO. He was kind of right about immigration. He grew the economy quite well. Tax reform worked.”

      Dimon PROBABLY wants to lighten the mood, get democrats off their neg. it MAY be a good potential tactic because democrats do GENERALLY WANT to help people, and to like people, and MAGA are very hard people to like. it’s a challenge.

      Nonetheless, if your strength is in helping an d liking, you are going to be out of depth if you try the dark side. I think he might be able to discount or to not ‘feel’ something from the nonsense that trump spews so often…he is a CEO, so used to very difficult talk and abrasive conditions. he is no snowflake.

          • No you semi-literate troglodyte. It’s MEGA MAGA, the cult of patriotism, America First and end of socialism, Marxism and wokism in America.

          • Absolutely brilliant replies, LOL. You have the intellect of a bag of nails and your posts reflect it! Typical for you unpatriotic degenerates.

          • Barely intelligible word soup. You’re pathetic. I miss worthy and intelligent political adversaries such as Tim, William and Stinger.

          • You miss who? Notice that your initial burst of nonsense was properly shredded, but you chose to go off on this series of schoolyard taunts rather than just acknowledge the loss.

          • OK, you’re right. Who could miss you? Nasty as ever. You’ve been awful quiet since Templer shredded you. Maybe you should keep a low profile.

            BTW; Trump will be president again regardless of the third world justice Democrats use to prevent it.

            MAGA

    • This is obviously silly. “Negative talk about MAGA” is the one sure winner. It’s a simple numbers game, just like Nixon’s southern strategy was. Talking bad about them offends the MAGAts, which is about a quarter of the electorate. However it directly appeals to ALL of the democrats, almost all of the independents, and about a quarter of the republicans, which taken together is probably 65% of the electorate and well worth appealing to.

  61. So Rexx shows up at Palmdale’s council meeting to make sure his puppets stay in line. It’s shocking that he made the drive all the way from his home in Laguna, but when you have one of your puppets being called out for multiple incidents of drunkeness you make the drive. Hey Rexx, why don’t you worry about the mess that you’ve made in your town. The FBI is watching………………………………….

    • When will people get fed up with this ego driven clown mayor? This guy needs to stay in his own messed up Lancaster. We have gone downhill since this meddler got involved.

  62. 91 indictments

    AND a peculiar smell about him

    …ketchup,armpit, butt, and cosmetics.

    • “AND a peculiar smell about him“

      How would you know?

      Oh never mind, we all know you leftists like a god sniff or two.

      • RUFF!
        Snopes says…TRUE!

        In October 2020, a political group promoting Democrat Joe Biden for president called Dog Lovers for Joe released a video claiming that U.S. President Donald Trump was the first president in over 100 years not to have a dog.

        The last president who did not have a dog was William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States, who was assassinated in 1901. McKinley’s successor, Theodore Roosevelt, had a dog named Skip.

        RUFF! RUFF!

        • Biden’s testament to raising animals and children is trash.

          One is shot out on drugs and the other is running around biting everybody.

          He shouldn’t have had either.

    • Let’s hope the FBI gets their list of indictments against Wrecks and his lapdog Marve. They can all share a cell together. Two meglomanics arguing about who is smarter and one confused ex vice mayor waiting for lunchtime.

  63. 5,350 part I crimes in Lancaster to 4,224 for Palmdale. Voters in both cities should be outraged. Lancaster voters are fools for keeping Wrecks in power and Palmdale voters are fools for voting for Wrecks backed candidates. Unless change is made, it’s only going to get worse.

    • New and fresh leadership is badly needed for Lancaster to move forward. Current leadership is not focused on the most important responsibilty of every elected officials, public safety!

  64. I just saw an ad promoting the current mayor of Lancaster who is running for re election. It said how much he loves Lancaster, but the photo of him and his family was taken in Laguna where he lives. Are people that dumb that they can’t see through him?

    • Why is Lancaster’s crime rate so much higher than Palmdale’s? Simple answer. Almost two decades of failed leadership and tens of millions of wasted dollars on pet projects like the eye in the sky. No community policing or involvement. Instead, just scapegoating of the homeless and pit bulls. It’s time for a change. Lancaster can do better.

    • Both are contracting with the sheriff’s department, but Palmdale pays for actual policing, while Lancaster pays for the eye in the sky that the LASD leases from one of Wrecks’ political cronies and anything else that could be dumped into the contract that diverts money into Wrecks’ pockets.

      With Wrecks now controlling the Palmdale city council you can assume that the next time the contract comes up for renegotiation that Palmdale will get a ‘deal’ similar to what Lancaster has had for years and Palmdale will start sliding downhill.

      • Lancaster and Palmdale have about the same demographics. The difference is in leadership. Or it was. Once Wrecks took control of Palmdale, it’s gone downhill. Not as far as Lancaster, but downhill.

    • Why is Quartz Hill so windy?

      Because Lancaster sucks and Palmdale also sucks and Lake LA also sucks.

    • Honestly, its the demographics.

      Lancaster — 20% B / Af. Am.
      Palmdale — 12% B / Af. Am.

      Source(s): 2020 US Census, World Population Review, Community Survey

      • Honestly, Truth, that is a racist statement. So only Af. Am. commit crimes? No Anglos, Hispanics, Asians, or others? Lancaster is 41.5 percent white to Palmdale’s 35.3. Scapegoating is a Lancaster value that comes from leadership that has a history of scapegoating the homeless. Now you’re piling on. Shame on you.

        • Nah, blacks don’t commit crimes, LMAO. You’ll jump through any hoops and ignore facts to avoid reality, won’t you? Virtue signalling, self-deceiving fool!

          • Where did I say blacks don’t commit crimes, Laughing at You? I stated rhetorically, so only Af. Am. commit crimes in response to the excuse made for Lancaster’s higher crime rate than Palmdale’s. That person pointed to demographics as the reason and noted that there were more blacks in Lancaster than Palmdale. People of all races, creeds and colors commit crime. Lancaster’s only demographic problem is in its leadership: all boot lickers of the mayor, all west side, all Lancaster Republicans.

  66. Lancaster saw a dramatic drop in crime thanks to innovative community policing. They saw that drop occur in Palmdale. What Lancaster saw was $10 million dollars wasted on the eye in the sky and and explosion of panhandlers and crime.

  67. RIP Ashli Babbit, military veteran and patriot, murdered in cold blood by a DEI swamp creature that was given a medal.

    • Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Any military veteran would know that attacking the capitol of the United States would involve taking casualties.

        • If they force their way into the halls of the US Capitol you can rest assured that they would be.

          If the attack on Jan 6 had been a mob of people of color demanding elimination of racial bias in the judicial system they would have been machine gunned on the steps. Instead it was a mob of Trump’s disgusting MAGAts so they were allowed to beat down the cops and make it all the way to the congressional chambers before any of them were shot.

    • Even if you watched the true j6 timeline, you still would not embrace the true facts about the entire j6 insurrection. Ashli Babbitt lost her life because she and others broke into the Capitol with violence. It all started when Trump supporters broke down the first barriers with violence.

    • Like many violent criminals caught in the act, the ultimate price has been paid and justice has been metered out.

  69. Hometown mayor my a$$. You live in Laguna in a mansion. Please stay there and leave us alone.

  70. How can you be our “hometown mayor” when you live in a 6 million dollar beach mansion in Laguna?

  71. These Rexx for mayor ads make me ill. Talk about complete b.s. Love for Lancaster? Try love for Laguna. Innovative policing? Try highest crime rate in the A.V. He has done nothing but squander millions of dollars on pet projects like the eye in the sky which only benefitted his pals. He lied about birth tourism and a sheriff being shot. He uses the homeless as a scapegoat to hide his failures. He doesn’t even live here.

    • I was a fighter pilot, but I only flew the elderly F18…a plane designed in the 1970’s, over territory where the enemy had no anti-aircraft weapons, only small caliber machine guns mounted in the bed of Toyota(r) pickup trucks.

    • LOL…what makes that “apparent” to you?

      It isn’t true. Just trying to get to the roots of your delusion.

    • Even Tim cannot stop the bad governing from the new Palmdale Council Democrats. The give away our hard earned taxes was bad enough but this latest alcohol fueled bad behavior resulting in a DUI only shows we elected people not ready to lead our community.

      • Those new Palmdale Council Democrats were chosen and funded by Republicans from Lancaster including the illustrious mayor who lives in Laguna. All of them in Palmdale and Lancaster need to go.

        • I notice they all genuflect to the Lancaster Mayor even both Assembly members so party affiliation means nothing. The men they follow are not that smart so why?

          • Care Bear, it’s because they love his money more than they love serving the people. It’s the Lancaster way and now it’s infected Palmdale. He should stay in Laguna where he really lives.

    • That is 100% true. He has stated his relationship with the publisher many times here. Managed too have Templer removed despite his own provocations. Free speech not here.

      • LOL…I comment more than anyone, so I get moderated more than anyone. I just don’t whine about it like so many of you do.

  76. In my opinion, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is the greatest and MOST honorable American alive today.

  77. Jill Biden says she has to warn Joe to “slow down”. If he was any slower, he’d be dead two weeks.

  79. Gaza is now rubble and craters and the tunnels are being flooded as I predicted (LOL).

    Palestinians are as dumb as the BLM, ANTIFA, Queers for Palestine (LOL) and the brainwashed, ignorant pukes protesting in our streets that hate Israel AND America.

    • When the house cleaners came and cleaned up this thread, they definitely chose what they thought would look nice and tidy, but what is left is sanitary and somewhat unintelligible.

      References to “Mary” in the new cleansed thread leave the reader with a “?huh?”. Mary was “Mary the Mother of God chastising the violent tone in this thread.

      Likewise, who is the ‘you’ that is ignorant in the “Damn, you are naive and ignorant of human history.” The “you” was a claim by the Constitution’s first amendment that freedom is loved by conservatives as long as it doesn’t bite back at them.

      When conservative voices are silenced, they moan loudly.

      Consider this moaning equivalent, identical. Consider the silencing by random house cleaners an affront to the American way.

      • this comment section will lower ones IQ if you hang around more than 2 mins. Garbage rag right here.And the stories are all DATEDWTF?.amateurs

        • Yes, yes. Go to Rex for Mayor website for real uplifting information. Along with a bunch of bull crapp.

  80. Good lord,

    You give these Dems power and next thing you know there is bags of cocaine in the White House and senate staffers bending each other over the Dias and having gae seggs in the senate hearing room.

    Gross!

        • I said nothing about ‘approving.’ It’s hilarious how consistently one off screen names have the same two traits: hate me, and can’t read.

  81. Hey Templer…you say “the devil is a liar.” I’m wondering if that means you are claiming to be the devil. Also, were you lying when you said you don’t hate me, or were you lying when you said that you do? Just curious.

    • You lack internal consistency. That’s why it is so easy for me to get under your skin.

      You hate me, you don’t hate me, hate’s bad so you don’t hate, but then you do hate…got yourself turned completely inside out on that one.

      Jail is a constant rape party, jail is just butting grass and no big deal, jail is ‘looking at man crack,’ but it’s somewhere worth going so long as you get to vent that hate…again, got you completely inside out.

      Criminals are heinous, but so long as the punishment is only a couple thousand dollars you pretend so hard that you want to be one and aren’t scared of the law…I didn’t even turn you inside out on that one, that’s all you, I just watched.

      So, move along, sad man. Go get yourself thrown in jail, then come back and act like all the OTHER criminals are bad but you aren’t. Go spew hate at people that you fantasize are me. Go count your square footage and reassure yourself of your worthiness.

      Or just sit like a confused lump of old man. You make absolutely no difference to me.

      • It’s not about looks, it’s about actions. Ever seen that meme of Grandpa Simpson shaking his fist at a cloud?

    • I just want to put a shout out to the low life’s that broke into our property near Neenach,trashed everything that you didn’t steal and have been back for more like it’s free pickings. We just want to let you know that the things you stoled can be replaced but you invaded our privacy and our friendship retreat that has taken us 62 years to put together and that’s what pissed us off. You knew who you were messing with when you first broke in. We will find you. There are over 90 guys that are looking for you. So it’s only a matter of time. God Bless you all !!! 12 / 16 / 23

      • yes. yes.
        thank you for letting us speak to ‘timmy’, Templar.
        I am glad he and you are here with us.
        and thank you for letting me know which one we are engaging
        we know that timmy is on your mind.
        can you tell me why? is it love or something more powerful?

    • Nope, although that is the kind of one off screen name that I would use, just crediting something quoted to the right source. I wouldn’t have sourced it to a newspaper though…some person said that. Pretty wise. Templer should take note, since his hatred is certainly doing me no harm.

    • The AV Taxpayer Advocates are anything but advocates for taxpayers. They funnel money to Rexx backed candidates in exchange for loyalty to his corrupt throne. It has been working very well. For the Lancaster political machine, that is. The people of the AV are getting royally skrewed.

  85. Who are the Antelope Valley Taxpayer Advocates? If they are advocates for the taxpayer, why do they give thousands of dollars to Lancaster backed candidates?

  86. “Between 2016 and October 15, 2020, the Defendant spent this money on drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal nature, in short, everything but his taxes,” the indictment states.

  87. Looks like the Lancaster takeover of Palmdale is complete. Marv’s boy Austin Biship is now mayor. Marv hand picked Austin to run for city council, and with Rexx’s help of running an employee of his against Martinez, enabled Biship to win. You can expect more money going from Palmdale to Lancaster over the next two years.

  88. If you’re looking for a good paying gig, and you can sell your soul to Rexx, apply to become one of his police. The pay is over 100k, and you don’t do any traditional police work at all. All this to tackle the biggest issue, which Rexx says “the biggest issue is that we want to make is safe and secure.” Can someone explain what that means?

  89. MULTI-STORY AND HIGH RISE EARTHQUAKE SAFETY ADVISORY –

    CONSIDER THIS AFTER YOU HAVE SURVIVED THE SHAKING –

    1. WAIT UNTIL ALL THE BROKEN SHEETS OF HEAVY JAGGED AND SHARP WINDOW GLASS STOPS FALLING –

    BEFORE RUNNING OUTSIDE TO SOME PLACE SAFER –

    – FOR THE NEXT STRONG JOLT –

    2. GETTING TRAPPED IN THE RUBBLE OF A FALLEN BUILDING SHOULD BE AVOIDED –

    BECAUSE THE HORDES OF HUNGRY RATS WILL FIND YOU AND EAT YOU ALIVE –

    LIKE THE MILLIONS OF RATS DID AFTER THE LAST GREAT SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE –

    TO THE POOR TRAPPED VICTIMS –

    ***

    UNTIL THE HUGE FIRES REACHED THEM –

    ***

  91. Four of the gold bars Sen. Bob Menendez stashed at his home were previously stolen from the businessman accused of bribing the New Jersey Democrat, according to a report.

    The serial numbers on some of the gold found by the FBI during a June 2022 raid on Menendez’s Englewood Cliffs, NJ, home match identifiers that Fred Daibes reported to police after a 2013 armed robbery, according to NBC News.

  92. This publication has turned into a police blotter over the past few days.

    Little else SEEMS to be going on…but that is hardly true. If Police involved events ran at the same rate as ALL events, crime would disappear from the pages.

    But, as is L O N G known in news organizations…

    “What bleeds, leads”

    • Not trying to offend the publisher, but another key factor is that ‘police blotter stories’ can be thrown together in a matter of seconds by any warm body who can clip the headers and footers off of a law enforcement press release and stamp “AV Times Staff” on as a byline. Other stories require actual reporting.

      • But you are. Just like when you went on a rant against a person on a thread here that said they lived on a quiet street, and that triggered you?! You seem to be very resentful of people content and happy where they live. Very odd thought process.

        • LOL…the publisher knows what I’m like when I am trying to offend them, and this wasn’t it. She doesn’t need a marine, a moron, or both to come to her defense.

          • I am a Marine, and I didn’t know the publisher was a female, nor was I defending anything. Just pointing out the idiot in the room named timmy. Can’t you read.

          • LOL…you’re the one that routinely proves that you can’t read.

            Me: “Not trying to offend the publisher…”
            You: “But you are.”

            Then you go off into the weeds.
            Because apparently the simple exchange was too much for you to follow.
            Now, somehow, the gender of the publisher is the issue for you.

            It’s only 10:45…are you drunk?

          • It’s obvious that you cant even understand what you write down or the catalyst of your blathering comments. Unlike you I don’t drink or smoke. It was you that said “she doesn’t need” I’m following things just fine. Far more educated than a bank robbing used car salesman.

          • It’s funny how you can take a shot at people in prior threads for no good reason, then act like it never happened. The only one in the weeds is you bubble boy.

          • LOL…please point out where I “went on a rant against a person on a thread here that said they lived on a quiet street.” I would call you a bald faced liar, but I know that between your barely there reading skills and the massive hate cloud obscuring what little thinking you are capable of you probably really believe this happened.

          • I have a masters in science not robbing banks dim snott, thats why I’ve left a far larger footprint than you.

          • 13 patent products timmy 3 of which are sold everyday on Snap On and Mac trucks. Auto parts stores stock my products, one new transmission tool is entering the market now. Don’t even try.

          • One of my sons achieved a 5.2 gpa trustee valedictorian. Where did you get your degree? Prison? I know it was late or you wouldn’t be robbing banks in your 30s. Nuff said.

          • You have nothing too show for your whole life, that’s why it’s you that lives here just too insult people every other thread. You inherited your parents old worthless house. A used car salesman LMAO

          • I can only imagine how many times your mom cried herself too sleep thinking of what a wasto she conceived behind that garage.

          • Wow, can’t beat that claim. I only hold a bachelor’s degree.

            Funny how you couldn’t let it rest on the master’s degree claim. Five posts to put out the boasts. Why wasn’t that first one enough to make you feel secure?

            By the way, every university I’ve ever seen calls it master OF science, not master IN science. Like my degree says “Bachelor of Science in Economics.” Just in case the insecurity stems from your claim being false, maybe better detail in the wording would make you more comfortable.

          • Seems to be working out better for me than yours is for you. I haven’t needed to work for closing in on twenty years, you claim to be working on Sunday afternoons.

          • LOL…not knowing the difference between chess and chest is even more juvenile than your usual. You’re degenerating.

            As to ‘having fun’ working…sure, maybe. Or maybe measuring your self worth in dollars and cents (or square footage) has you on a treadmill that you can’t ever get off of. If you weren’t such a jerk I’d feel sorry for you.

          • Just to be clear here dim witted one, I refer too most of my pastimes as work, wether it’s pruning my trees or my hifi, my cars my birds. My arboretum is one of my many loves. One of finest in the AV btw. How’s it said fruits of my labor. I can design and make most anything or restore the hardest of items no matter what they are.

          • That’s okay. I sometimes say that I’m ‘working’ when I am playing chess, because I usually converse with my opponents and they end up buying my book.

      • They (BOS, LASD) could easily provide an ‘instantaneous crime rate’ map or grapic (per capita, or per region, or heat map) like USGS does for earthquakes, and make all the Chicken Little ‘sky is falling’ incidents visible to the public, thereby providing perspective and eliminating or reducing fear…but they don’t.

        Is there are particular reason this is not in place?

        Maybe a FOIA necessary? Modern policing should not be hindered by unions or by low road politics.

        • I think the misplaced word in your comment is “easily.” Real time crime rate tracking would be very hard to execute. Works great for earthquakes, because the detectors themselves provide reliable real time data. There is no ‘real time crime detection devices’ that can be just networked together.

          That said, crime rate data is readily available, but it’s just not ‘sexy’ enough for the average citizen. You can say that last year 99,500 people out of 100,000 were not impacted by violent crime, but the scare mongers will be jumping and screaming about one or two of the 500 who did. They will have the lurid details and heart string tugging survivors, and all you will have on your side is common sense and math.

      • Panties bunched, Templer loses it.

        Discomfort in the nether region, from diaper to banana hammock, Templer still cannot understand he just needs to purchase and wear less restrictive briefs.

        • LOL…not everyone that makes fun of you is my friend…though if they are trying to be it is a fine way to start.

    • Mainstream media news is nothing but the same it’s just what’s going on, ( homeowner shoots intruders in Granada Hills not intruder, intruders!, dude in a 440i Beamer calmly killing people on and on. This publication has done plenty of other stories such as road works, county politics and news. Sadly somebody has to be killed to make the news.

    • Templer still can’t handle when free speech confounds his worldview. It should worry any citizen when ‘marines’ harbor this sort of attitude toward the Constitution and other citizens

      • The marine lifestyle creates a knee jerk favorable response to authoritarianism that pushes them towards the least desirable moral stances a citizen can hold. It takes intelligence and effort for them to avoid falling into that. Templer lacks one and has never made the other.

        • Spot on blathering babble most likely timmy, although he denies it he uses imaginary friends here all the time. Free speech, no problem with free speech.

          • How did you make it through taco Tuesday? I figured at least three or four people would trigger your “that must be Tim” hate reflex and you’d wind up in jail.

          • LOL…but you make wild unsubstantiated guesses that other people “must be Tim” all the time around here. What was different at the taco place? I know there were people laughing at you behind their hands. How did you know they weren’t me?

        • Templer still can’t handle when free speech confounds his worldview. It should worry any citizen when a ‘marine’ harbors this sort of attitude toward the Constitution and other citizens

        • It’s also quite entertaining to see Templer get all wound up by his own pathological maladies

      • Templer is insecure…it’s right there in front of us.

        Templer cannot leave a “Tim” entry without being obsessively compelled to respond.

        Once the back and forth starts, he must emerge as dominant in ‘last-wordery’.

        Tim lives rent free in the Templer’s mind as all times because of ego fragility driving the need to dominate.

        It’s a bit sad.

          • LOL…the way you adopt random one off screen names to try to make a “shaming weapon” out of something that I have very obviously come to terms with is hysterical. Do you really think that if shaming me about having robbed banks was going to work that I would have WRITTEN A BOOK ABOUT IT?

            If you one offs aren’t just Templer you are so eager to be in his fan club that you are posting stuff that is just as dumb as what he posts.

          • Of course it doesn’t bother you. It didn’t bother you when you stole your moms grocery money we all know that.

          • LOL…by “we” I guess you mean all your different one off screen names.

            As to stealing from my mom…why would I have done that? Much like you, my dad measured his self worth by his affluence, and “providing for his family” by giving me as much as I needed was part of the polish on his self image.

          • Why indeed… scumbag? Loser? Thief?…no wait I forgot professional criminal. pro tips for everyone. 90% success rate that’s 100% guaranteed too land you in prison.

          • LOL…why would I ever be stomping my feet? I’m not hate driven, I enjoy clowning you. And I want full credit for clowning you, so I use one name to do it.

          • And I think I made you go on a forty minute foaming at the mouth rant in the middle of the night. The difference is that what I think is backed by evidence, and what you think is driven by your rage fantasies.

        • LOL…thanks, but Templer’s mind would be a terrible place to live, even rent free. Behind the WalMart dumpster would be more spacious, with fresher air.

        • Hardly insecure. Not a trait of mine. But timmy is right about one thing I do hate him and hate is bad. But please be advised Templer is my call sign here. Sarge is most likely your adopted nick name in real life like Bear or something stupid like that. A very successful hard A** man once told me when I started out; beware of Winkers, Smiley guys and guys with nick names, especially guys that own them. Like Sarge, what’s your name “Sarge” no what’s your name.

        • LOL…amazing how you can convince yourself of whatever you set out to believe, isn’t it?

          Sarge isn’t me, but I’m hoping he drops me an e-mail so we can get together and laugh about you.

  93. – DVD REVUE –

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  94. The fool can listen to the teachings of sages and hear only noise, while the wise can gain enlightenment hearing the sound of a turd splashing into the bowl.

    • A turd in a bowl is more useful than 99 percent of the ideas coming from the head of Wrecks.A turd in a bowl is more useful than 99 percent of the ideas coming from the head of Wrecks.

      • If enlightenment ban be gotten from a turd splashing in the bowl, twice as much can be gotten from you, clearly.

  96. – HIT TUNE FOR THE YEAR –

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  97. Abraham Lincoln, Oct. 3, 1863
    The year that is drawing towards its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever-watchful providence of Almighty God.
    In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theater of military conflict; while that theater has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.
    Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the ax had enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege, and the battlefield; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things.
    They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American People.
    I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe … a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to them that, while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility, and union.

      • Another product of our wonderful education system. Was reading optional? Was it racist like math? A whole generation of illiterate morons will be the leaders of tomorrow.

  98. DISABLED. NEEDY OR BLIND SENIORS ARE STILL LOCKED OUT OF GETTING FREE HOME HIGH SPEED INTER NET –

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  99. – CHRISTMAS GATHERING SECURITY TERROR WARNING –

    THESE MURDERING FIENDS ARE MOTIVATED BY THEIR BELIEF IN ISLAMO-FASCISM –

    CHRISTMAS OFFENDS THEM DEEPLY –

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    MANY JEWISH AND ISLAMIC CENTERS HAVE RECENTLY INCREASED THEIR SECURITY AND OUR POLICE HAVE INCREASED PATROLS –

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    THESE SORTS FAVOR ATTACKING THE UNGUARDED INCLUDING CHILDREN –

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    REMEMBER THE CRUEL SURPRISE SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENT COUNTY WORKERS IN SAN BERNARDINO –

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    CHRISTIANS ARE BEING TARGETED AND MURDERED IN MASS –

    BY ISLAMO-FASCISTS RIGHT NOW IN AFRICA AND AZERBAIJAN –

    FOR BEING CHRISTIANS –

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    ADDITIONAL CAUTION FOR OUTDOOR EASILY ACCESSIBLE GATHERINGS LIKE
    CHRISTMAS CRECHES SHOULD BE CLOSELY CONSIDERED –

    ***

    • I’m more worried about walking around in Lancaster. It’s gone to h3ll in a hand basket under the Rexx regime.

    • Lancaster is getting more dangerous by the day. Maybe it’s time to rethink who is running the city and what is being done about crime. Nothing that they’ve tried has worked. The war on gangs, war on Section 8, LEAPS and D’Errico have all been failures.

    • No wonder why Lancaster is listed as one of the top ten most UNSAFE cities in California. This happened on Rexxie Poo’s watch.

  101. I read the article about the mayor’s presentation on the State of the City. I believe our city is disjointed and we can do better.

    First of all, we need to district up the City Council. The hospital board and the Lancaster City Council are the only boards I can nd that are not elected by districts. Why hasn’t this been done to improve representation in the city? 80% of the council is of one race and one gender.

    Secondly, we need an audit to determine if the city can contract out to the county, like the old days, and save money. All of the “special districts” to provide services are killing us on our property tax bills.

    Thirdly, the creation of police department is a potential time bomb for lawsuits and discord among our citizens. If sheriff’s deputies have to spend half their time on shoplifters, does this merit a separate police agency? How about the city working with the big box stores on improving their own in-house security?

    Fourthly, the streets and traffic lights in Lancaster are detrimental to the health and safety of its people. One sits in traffic forever breathing in gas fumes, and when one makes a right turn, there is no right lane. Seriously, is this safe?

    Fifthly, putting the Waste Management bills on our property tax bills was a mistake. The city should not be a collection agency for WM. If someone is freeloading, then they should handle it and not penalize the people who do pay.

    Finally, the council meetings should begin later in the evening for people to get home, eat and then attend the meetings. And the meetings should be conducted like meetings, not Sunday dinners.

    We can do better and be better focused.

    • Well said. Why can’t we have people who think like this on the Lancaster council?

      • They cannot be controlled is why they will never see elected office. If you control the money you control the message and thus you also control who you support. Lancaster voters need to grow a backbone.

      • How can a Lancaster resident participate in the City Council and meetings?

        I have not lived in this community for a long time, but I love it. My street is beautiful and quiet with neighbors that won’t bother anyone else. The entire city should be like that.
        I think, good small community practices can be extrapolated to bigger entities.
        The garbage bill, is an entire surprise for me, was that ever communicated to us residents?

        • Find one of Wrecks Paris’ cronies and schmooze up to them. Based on the way you describe your street one of them probably lives right in your neighborhood. That’s the only way to be heard in Lancaster.

          If you go to council meetings and say anything Wrecks doesn’t like you will get thrown out.

          • LOL…get over the hate, obsessed one.

            That’s just the realities of Lancaster, and anyone with eyes can see it. You want to build in Lancaster? Pay the developer fees. What are the fees used for? To pay for landscaping and infrastructure around developments being done by cronies of Wrecks.

            Two housing developments done at the same time, between J and K. Off 25th West the development is surrounded, at city expense, by a wide easement with curving swoops of sidewalk shaded by trees the city will water in perpetuity. Off 20th East the developer can’t even get the city to put the main access street through to 15th. The prior development along 15th and his development are connected by dirt road. You want it paved, pay for that yourself. Both developers paid the same fees to get their projects approved, but all the money from both goes to one. Standard Lancaster practice.

          • It is absolutely hilarious that Templer the Clown is so detached from reality that he thinks THIS was a ‘rant against” Ishtar. Apparently neither marine basic training nor clown school has a basic reading comprehension requirement.

          • No I really think that triggers you. I comprehend just fine. I just don’t get all the blathering babble when you don’t speak at council meetings yourself.

          • LOL…I think it’s safe to say that you haven’t got the first clue about what would trigger me.

  102. I read the article about the mayor’s presentation on the State of the City. I believe our city is
    disjointed and we can do better.

    First of all, we need to district up the City Council. The hospital board and the Lancaster City
    Council are the only boards I can find that are not elected by districts. Why hasn’t this been done to improve representation in the city? 80% of the council is of one
    race and one gender.

    Secondly, we need an audit to determine if the city can contract out to the county, like the old
    days, and save money. All of the “special districts” to provide services are killing us on our
    property tax bills.

    Thirdly, the creation of police department is a potential time bomb for lawsuits and discord
    among our citizens. If sheriff’s deputies have to spend half their time on shoplifters, does this
    merit a separate police agency? How about the city working with the big box stores on
    improving their own in-house security?

    Fourthly, the streets and traffic lights in Lancaster are detrimental to the health and safety of
    its people. One sits in traffic forever breathing in gas fumes, and when one makes a right turn,
    there is no right lane. Seriously, is this safe?

    Fifthly, putting the Waste Management bills on our property tax bills was a mistake. The city
    should not be a collection agency for WM. If someone is freeloading, then they should handle
    it and not penalize the people who do pay.

    Finally, the council meetings should begin later in the evening for people to get home, eat and
    then attend the meetings. And the meetings should be conducted like meetings, not Sunday
    dinners.

    We can do better and be better focused.

    • WHO ARE YOU ?

      MISTER CHICKEN ?

      SCARED TO SAY WHO YOU REALLY ARE –

      ***

      OR MAYBE REX HATER, DIANNA-BEARD-WILLIAMS ?

      THAT LOSER –

      ***

      • Ace, how long have you been around the AV? Rex will ruin anyone who he perceives as an enemy. Try to do business around here without having to kiss his and Marvin’s butts. You are either naiive, indpendently wealthy or not very bright.

          • Rex and Marvin better watch their steps because Santa Clause isn’t the only one coming to town. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is here and know that these ‘leaders’ of Lancaster have been very naughty. Dorris was smart to bail from that scene.