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Stodola.

What a joke.

Remind me again why we gave that worthless PoS Stodola more power and a raise.

stodola hasnt been tough on anything except the eyes and ears.

Kudo's to ECS and Warren S. for continuing to show leadership in the city even if the duly elected "full-time" Mayor doesn't want to show any.

In other news, it sounds like he is about to actually become a full time mayor. Don't know if that is better or worse.

From this week's edition of the Perry County Newspaper. (as posted online at www.headlightnews.com)

"...County attorney/Little Rock City Mayor Mark Stodola expressed his appreciation for the opportunity to serve the people of Perry County. Stodola has served as the county's attorney for approximately 17 years. He stated that Barbara Lovell, county/circuit clerk, is the only person besides Freeman who has been around since he began.
Lovell thanked Stodola for his years of service saying that she has enjoyed working with him and expressed gratitude on behalf of the elected officials and Perry County. A farewell party of cake and coffee followed the meeting. The city of Little Rock, according to Stodola, is scheduled to pass an ordinance that changed the demands of his job as mayor and will prohibit his ability to serve as county attorney. .."

And if you don't have a bike to dust off you can now rent one from the newly opened concessionaire on the NLR side of the river near the Arkansas Queen riverboat. Details are on the Argenta News blog, and it looks like this weekend will be excellent for riding the river trail. Get off your duffs & give it a try, ride out to the Big Dam Bridge & back downtown, marveling at the Fall colors through Burns Park. But be careful and watch out for trigger happy deer hunters lurking along the way.

Mark my words.... Stodola will take credit.

This is great.....

Yeah, that section is by far the worst of the river trail. You have to weave on this small sidewalk, slowing down to get past curbs and driveways. The sprinkler system cools you on the way past. The nearby underpass reeks of urine and feces. The nearby overpass requires you to basically stop because you have to turn suddenly while going up a steep hill onto a super narrow pass that is usually already clogged with hobos walking across (no offense to them or anything).

Thanks ECS, Warren Stephens.

Didn't the booboisie of Little Rock give Stodola "increased power"?

Apparently that "increased power" actually only includes only the power for the sock-puppet to call his wowser handlers every morning to ask them which cereal he's allowed to eat that day.

Oh, and what he is allowed to say about any public issue that has reared its inconvenient head overnight.

Perhaps the sock-puppet should have called Warren before saying the bike trail deal "can't be done."

I believe the city, Stodola, ECS, Stephens many others maybe never to be known, all deserve credit for the whole arrangment because like all of our lives more goes on behind the scenes than the rest of us know about.

Any suggestions as to what motivates ECS now, after many years of the trail's current state, to include a bikeway in their plat?

ARK. BLOG: 1) Public attention to the issue, specifically in the context of a pending request for city action on an expansion? 2) Realization that it's a good project and good minds can make it work in a way unharmful, maybe even helpful, to the school?

Ron,

I expect that with all the millions that city, county, federal, and private interests have invested in the trail and bridge it would be obvious to anyone looking at a map that the Episcopal School was ruining the whole loop.

They by no means have to do it but would harm their public image by not going along.

I think it was the idea of the local cycling and running communities showing up at the planning board meeting to host a Critical Mass event yesterday afternoon... (See http://criticalmass.org)

Sigh... It could have been fun ;-)

Critical Mass, not to be confused with the Critical Manners rides which is also abbreviated CM.

Indeed... There be a great deal of difference between a Critical Mass ride, appropriate for certain board meetings; and Critical Manners, a much more polite event.

Some one posted "I expect that with all the millions that city, county, federal, and private interests have invested in the trail and bridge it would be obvious to anyone looking at a map that the Episcopal School was ruining the whole loop."

Well, a few weeks ago when the weather cooled a bit, I parked my car on Rebsamen by the Dam Bridge and started riding. I crossed the bridge, rode through Burns Park, then NLR, crossed the river, rode the Medical Mile, and then ............... ? but, gosh, I was 1/2 mile from Episcopal.

Hard to figure out how they were the hold up. In fact, if they leveled the school and built a 20 foot wide bike path across the empty lot, there would be 6 to 8 blocks of great bike trail, which would be totally isolated on either end.

The midtown LR portion of the trail would still be miserable.

Actually, the medical mile extends all the way up to the UP tracks where the Barring Cross RR bridge comes ashore. Plans to get the trail from there just 100 yards South to where it is on North First Street now is a no brainer and easier to navigate a trail through then the fragmented condition of the trail in and around ECS that exists today.

Having said that, some negotiation with UP will have to be done.

The only reason 1/2 a mile or so of downtown streets make up the trail now is because there was never a plan as to where the trail would rightfully go around ECS. If now the trail around ECS brings it closer to the trail head of the medical mile near the barring cross RR bridge then the 1/2 mile section through downtown streets will immediately be made uneccessary.