Second public hearing on Trine University proposal set for Tuesday evening in Centreville

What happened to Trine’s offer to answer questions posted here? What happened to the questions? (It seems some comments were preserved from posts, but others are buried deep, if they exist at all.) Website transformations are good for hair-pulling….eh Bruce?

Right you are about website transformations and hair-pulling. Comments from a few posts over several days were lost in the process, unfortunately including some regarding the Trine University proposal. I will try to find a way to resurrect them, but haven’t had time to tackle the project yet. In the meantime, issues we encountered with links to photos, documents and audio files are being resolved and those items will soon be fully restored. Many thanks to you and other readers for your patience and understanding as we move to this new website that offers a lot more capabilities than the original version.

Bruce Snook
River Country Journal

Ernesto….I posted the same comments on the Sturgis Journal as they too received an identical post from Trine. There were other questions posted there also. To date, no questions have been addressed. If they do get answered I suspected they wouldn’t get answered at best until right before the hearing so the next level of questions that their responses generates won’t have time to get any traction.

Rumor is that some of the leaders of the Trine support group, have ‘asked’ the Journal to hold back on the negative stuff and not print it…If my advertisers made that kind of request in today’s financial atmosphere, guess I’d be cautious about what I printed too.

Grace…..Thanks for that feedback. OK, but they posted questions put out there. Why not post the answers, or did they not want tough questions that have some unpleasant (but realistic) answers. So they only give answers if they are one’s that are positive and fit within the party line to support the desired outcome? There were some really good questions asked (and I’m not just talking about the questions I posted).

I guess the answers must really not be pleasant to “their” cause if they prefer to take the approach to challenge folks to put questions out there to answer and then not answer them…….but then again, I never thought this was a fact base intitiative, more of one based on rhetoric and spin.

So if this hearing doesn’t go the way “they” want it, then what….do we do best 3 out of 5, then 4 out of 7…..Is this going to be like one of those millage initiatives where folks say no, no, no and a minority keeps coming back over and over and over until they get what they want anyway?