FOIA Request: Oxbow Country Club
So, how did 6 replacement golf course holes and 2 hole renovations of the “lower course” turn into an entire brand new “upper and lower” private and exclusive golf course on the taxpayer dime?
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Defending Richland and Wilkin counties December 28, 2017
It’s fair to say that consistent readers of these articles are better informed than many of the diversion decision makers in Fargo.
Continue ReadingPart 6: Exposing Fargo Moorhead (FMDA) and the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
Continued from: Part 1 – Exposing the FMDA and USACE Part 2 – Exposing the FMDA and USACE Part 3 – Exposing the FMDA and USACE Part 4 – Exposing the FMDA and USACE Part 5 – Exposing the FMDA and USACE If Fargo-Moorhead were a house with a leaky roof and Fargo had 100 […]
Continue ReadingDefending Richland and Wilkin counties March 30th, 2017
Not content with what they already have, Oxbow’s lawyer stood up in Federal Court last month and argued that Oxbow is the victim. Apparently the federal injunction that stopped the construction on the ring dike is making it difficult for the private Oxbow Country Club to finish their golf course re-design.
Continue ReadingWealthy Welfare Oxbow, ND (Part 4)
So what did the taxpayer get for their $78.5+ million spent thus far?
Continue ReadingWealthy Welfare Oxbow, ND (Part 3)
Oxbow’s Country Club elite were salivating over the high-end Robert Trent Jones plans and the FMDA was looking for a way to buy-off Oxbow and only had to dangle money.
Continue ReadingLetter to Editor: Greg Bauman
Oxbow and Fargo have the same problem I like to refer to it as the Forrest Gump Syndrome. Stupid is, stupid does. Just let people build where there is danger of flooding and we’ll deal with it later.
Continue ReadingOHB Design Flaw Negates Stated Flood Protection
OHB project area contains a design feature one foot lower, capable of filling the entire OHB area to the top of the levee within 4.5 hours.
Continue ReadingDefending Richland and Wilkin counties May 14th, 2015
POLL VOTE: Fargo’s leaders made a good gamble with $60 million of taxpayers’ money, even after Minnesota formally objected to the project?
Continue ReadingDefending Richland and Wilkin counties April 26th, 2015
Bullying has become a well-polished means to an end for the diversion authority. Who would have imagined, ten years ago, that our honest, small town culture would have come to this?
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