And the winner is...

The latest to be set free is...Robert Blake. It amazes me the level of attention paid to the rich and famous in California. Scott Peterson on the other hand wasn't as lucky. Of course, he wasn't famous until after he was caught, tried and subsequently committed for murdering his wife, Laci and their unborn son, Conner. Then the case of Michael Jackson becomes stranger and stranger with each passing day. I know that California sets the trends along with New York for the rest of the nation, but if these are the trends in our criminal justice system, I hope they stay on the East and Left Coasts.

Locally, the election season has been verrry, verrry quiet in Freeport. An occasional opinion piece or non-policy statement is in one of the local papers, or the announcement of the opening of a campaign headquarters is in the news, but where are the policy statements, where are the agendas, where are the plans for our city. We will be getting a new mayor and we may not know much about who will be running our fair city. There is no candidate bashing by either of the candidates, which is good, but there is no dialogue with each other or with the community, which is not good. We are less than three weeks from the election and there is no heat being generated. I haven't heard if there any debates even scheduled, yet. I can't find anything in the news that presents George Gaulrapp's positions on anything other than I'll work with the people and listen to the people statements, but nothing concrete about how to bring in businesses, how to keep businesses, and how to keep out the cronyism that plaugues our city, as well as many others. Pat Leitzen Fye at least has a forum by which we can identify some of her perceptions and plans, though we still need dialogue or discourse between the candidates to put their points of view into proper perspective. How will each fair under scrutiny and pressure? Where is the discussion about what direction our city will take with either one as the new leader. We're waiting for the fire in the campaign, or at least a few sparks.