PAY $176,000.00 TO EAT AT YOUR OWN HOUSE

John Hendrickson bid $176,000.00 to dine with Marylou Whitney, outbidding Ron & Michelle Riggi.  The special dinner for two will consist of Whitney’s own secret recipe for bologna tacos with pork bellies stuffed with collard greens (I defy anyone to eat this goop).  The beverage is to be Old Milwaukee beer in 40 oz. throwaway bottles.  The fundraiser was for the Saratoga Springs Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit, which Marylou and her husband will be visiting after the dinner.  I think we can all tell that Marylou has done great things for Saratoga Springs but can’t boil water.  By the way it was said that Mayor Scott Johnson bid $750.00 for the dinner.

I attended the opening night of the Philadelphia Orchestra the other night and enjoyed Tchaikovsky’s  Piano Concerto No. 1 op. 23,B-flat minor and Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 op. 27, E minor.

SPAC did a great job and it was a very pleasant night.  Thank you, Marcia White.

There will be someone blaming Marcia White and saying this is her fault.
The Philadelphia Orchestra is out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The orchestra stunned the arts community when it became the first major U.S. orchestra to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in April 2011.
A month after a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge approved its reorganization plan; The Philadelphia Orchestra Association announced Tuesday it has officially emerged from Chapter 11.
The POA addressed more than $100 million in claims, debts and liabilities with a settlement of $5.49 million. Under the reorganization plan, the 111-year-old symphony will shrink from 105 musicians to 95 and cut their pay by about 15 percent. The orchestra also got a break on its rent from its main venue, the Kimmel Center.
Officials said the organization's long-term health has been bolstered by a new labor agreement covering musicians and a shift away from defined benefit pension plans.

Tighe Misses Another Big Story

Hi all, from Captain America:

Well once again our super sleuth detective blogger John Tighe has missed out on another big story in his beloved Saratoga Springs (he lives in Milton).  Telling the world how someone 'donated' seats to Yanni's performance at SPAC and someone 'donated' a one year patron's pass that allows him free food and open bar, he has the nerve to slam some of the patrons that actually bought and paid for their own patron pass.  John was seen stuffing his wife's pocketbook with 'pigs in a blanket' and mustard sauce to go along with them.

Now here is the story that none of his sources gave him any information about but gave every other local blogger.  The City has not received a building permit for the Woodlawn garage project.  It is a law that a permit be in plain site to be seen by all.  When Saratoga's blogger 'Citizen Nancy's, Nancy Muldoon asked the crew chief at the site if the City had to get a permit (again, a law that the City must follow for any remodeling or new building of any City owned property, he "Yes, we work for the city and the city is supposed to have a permit." I then asked him where I could get the permit and he quipped, "Ask the Mayor for one."  So she travels to City Hall and goes into the Building Dept. and asks to see a copy of the permit and is told that she would have to FOIL to look at it (there isn't one), then the office worker said she is not supposed to answer any questions from anyone.



John Tighe, Milton's Super Sleuth Being Programmed By Scott Johnson



It seems like our King, I mean Mayor who is a puppet of Remiga Foy and friends thinks he is beyond the law in performing his job duties.  This has been his method of operation for 5 years.  He is following Remiga's Law 'if it ain't done my way, hit the highway'.