Defending Richland and Wilkin counties January 31st, 2013
Cass County Commissioner and Diversion Authority Chair Daryl Vanyo: “you wouldn’t have anything out here if it wasn’t for Fargo.”
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Defending Richland and Wilkin counties January 24th, 2013
We must look at the ethics of using tax payer dollars to hire a federal agency to do the bidding of cities for economic development. It tramples on the right of all citizen rights. It asks for local, state and federal tax dollars to promote growth of the city of Fargo.
Continue ReadingDefending Richland and Wilkin counties January 17th, 2013
Not many people are interested in buying property that may be condemned in the near future. But the flower throwers say the greatest benefit is that property values will return as soon as the sound of backhoes is heard piling up the Red River Valley clay around them.
Continue ReadingDefending Richland and Wilkin counties January 10th, 2013
Like the “bridge to nowhere,” Fargo’s unnecessary overpriced dam/diversion plan is a massive “redistribution of wealth” for the benefit of private development interests.
Continue ReadingDefending Richland and Wilkin counties January 3rd, 2013
Diversion Authority Chair and Cass County Commissioner Darrell Vanyo said, “To give the Kindred School District (the) monies may establish a precedent for the future reduction through the whole process of building the diversion”. In other words, they don’t want to pay the real cost of the diversion, and they won’t if they can help it.
Continue ReadingDefending Richland and Wilkin counties December 27th, 2012
Last week, the Diversion Authority told the Kindred School District, they wouldn’t pay for lost tax revenue caused by Fargo’s threats to force water south of town. They said the rest of Kindred’s taxpayers should foot the bill.
Continue ReadingDefending Richland and Wilkin counties December 20th, 2012
Faced with a problem of their own creation, Fargo leaders devised a way to push the problem onto someone else. The dam would flood the rural communities to Fargo’s south with 200,000 acre of water. Fargo leaders want to eliminate this flood plain, not for protection, but for Fargo’s future development: more bricks in the cake pan.
Continue ReadingDefending Richland and Wilkin counties December 12th, 2012
The Corps of Engineers has rejected any use of distributed retention as part of the project and instead has mandated its own dam and reservoir. In fact, the dam and reservoir component causes harm to farmers and residents of southern Clay and northern Wilkin counties.
Continue ReadingDefending Richland and Wilkin counties December 6th, 2012
In private meetings, Diversion Authority officers say they have tried to stop development but are not able to do so. Fargo’s insistence on developing natural flood plain is the problem. Building permits have been issued for natural flood plain areas as if it were a priority.
Continue ReadingDefending Richland and Wilkin counties November 21st, 2012
There is nothing quite like a threat to our communities to motivate people to gather together for a common cause. Thousands of hours have been spent by hundreds of people to understand the issues, and find consensus on what is best for all of us. Our efforts are the result of a true Democracy.
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