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[taxthedeer]

Does anybody know the status on any of these three?

[Ang]

It began with crime. Our crime rate is much higher than similar communities near us. And it's steadily increasing. I'm not sure what the MCPD can do differently to suppress it short of enacting marshall law (I'm not joking either).
Remember those riots 30 years ago? Well, it ain't got any better. Plus, there is so much racial tension in this town that we are unable to move forward.
I don't think a strip club will improve our economy, but I think it's a wasted effort to try to block it.
I'm with Mike in that we need to focus on the youth, and elimiting crime. MC has always had the nickname of Little Gary, while Gary has the nickname of Little Chicago......it's proving true once again and the people need to forget about color, need to stop sweating the small stuff and concentrate on making the community a place where people want to come. Jerry Keppen said in another thread (I think I got his point correctly).....What difference will a strip club make in the grand scheme of things with people are already afraid to shop here and tourist here because they fear for their lives or their wallets (I definitely paraphrased that one! Jerry, I hope I got your point correctly). Who wants to come to a town where people can't sit in their own homes with out being shot, raped, or brutally murdered?
A strip club isn't going to make that worse....it's already worse.

[Tim]

What difference will a strip club make in the grand scheme of things with people are already afraid to shop here and tourist here because they fear for their lives or their wallets (I definitely paraphrased that one! Jerry, I hope I got your point correctly).

To me, that sounds like it already sucks, how could it get any worse. Which is just a F'd up way to think. It's giving up/throwing in the towel.

Surely, we can do better than just shrugging our shoulders and looking the other way.