From the HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS:
…Thursday’s daylong hearing was the first of two to look into the decisions that have left Harrisburg drowning in debt. The hearing is to resume Oct. 29.
Depending on whom you believe, the retrofit of the city’s incinerator was done with the best of intentions and the blame belongs to now-bankrupt Barlow Construction, the firm hired to conduct the retrofit.
Or it is a tangled web of financial interests, parties hellbent on getting the project done, whatever the cost. A conspiracy of consultants and politicians benefiting from the public’s largess…
Click here to read the full article.
EDITOR: The incinerator debacle was but the ‘straw’ that broke the camel’s back, as reported here last spring by Bill Keisling.
Move along folks, there’s nothing new to see here. It’s business as usual.
Politicians borrow money using creative accounting methods, then create overseer agency’s that can’t do the job staffed by people who can’t be held accountable (whatever that means) and enabled by willing dupes in banking or on wall street. Let the city go bankrupt and let those foolish enough to have loaned the money suffer. Disband the do nothing agencies and in the future let the marketplace work.
OK, now let’s move on to public employee pensions. That will be even more fun.
The Harrisburg Patriot-News article is very interesting. If our local paper was not knee deep in it, I would suggest that you could read a very similar story in the Lancaster paper in 4 or 5 years on our convention center.
Substitute your favorite local crooks, government swindlers and law firms sticking it to the people to line their own pockets with a failure of a project.