NEXT EDITION
NOVEMBER 19th
Because of the Veterans Day Holiday next week our next edition will be published on Saturday, November 19, 2005. If there is any breaking news we will publish it on our web log at firstcapitolnews.blogspot.com. Each week we publish the First Capitol News online at firstcapitolnews.blogspot.com.
DELIVERY BY MAIL
Each Saturday over 20,000 copies of the First Capitol News is delivered to the homes in St. Charles by the United States Postal Service. Since delivery by mail is a new venture for us at First Capitol News we are still experiencing some snags. If you know of anyone who is not receiving the First capitol News by mail every Saturday please let us know their address so we can make sure they are placed on the mailing list.
The cost of mailing the First Capitol News is about double that of delivery by newspaper carrier we believe it is worth the added expense. No longer do our readers have to venture outside during all types of weather to retrieve the most read newspaper in St. Charles. We are working on fine tuning our system and we will soon have all the snags eliminated.
SEVERAL INVESTIGATIVE
REPORTS UNDER DEVELOPMENT
We would like to thank our readers for all the news tips they have been calling in. We have several investigative reports under development and will be making them public shortly. If you have not yet seen a story about your news tip on the pages of the First Capitol News please be patient. We will eventually get to all of them.
INCIDENT AT LIBRARY
Every Saturday members of the Committee to Recall the Mayor are at the Library at Elm and Duchesne, sitting at a table collecting signatures of registered voters. We were told that this past Saturday a man became upset when the librarians refused his request to have them removed. He became angry and threw a book at the committee members and was then escorted from the library. First telephone threats and now attempted assault with books. I wonder what they have in store next.
MAYOR MAY BE BACK ON DAIS
There are indications the Mayor may soon return to the DAIS. Shortly after the last election, and at the insistence of Councilman Bob Hoepfner, the Mayor was moved off the DAIS and was seated on the floor next to the City Administrator and the City Attorney. Council President Riddler suggested moving her back during discussion at Tuesday’s meeting. Even though Hoepfner had engineered her move off the DAIS he evidently proffered no objections at Riddler’s suggestion. Since Hoepfner recently moved to the Mayor’s side he has been awfully quiet and says little about his earlier claims to be battling for the rights of the ‘citizen taxpayers’.
Hoepfner has been trying hard to be elected as City Council President and maybe he hoped by switching his allegiance to the Mayor and her cronies he might achieve his goal.
Rumor has it that Councilman Mike Weller has made the remark that as long as he is there Hoepfner can forget about ever being Council President. Weller, with the help of his campaign manager, Tom Hayden, has been trying to maneuver himself into a position of power on the Council. Even though he has missed a great majority of the City Council meetings he evidently thinks he should be in charge.
ANONYMOUS LETTERS
We have recently received several letters to the editor that were unsigned and we were unable to identify the author. If you write a letter to the editor and want your name withheld we will be happy to comply. However, your letter must be signed so that we can identify the writer before we can print the letter. Thank you for reading the First Capitol News.
