Comments on: Eye on Sedona with City Councilman Michael Ward https://sedonaeye.com/eye-on-sedona-with-city-councilman-michael-ward/ Local News From All Points of View Thu, 31 Oct 2013 05:05:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: sharlett https://sedonaeye.com/eye-on-sedona-with-city-councilman-michael-ward/comment-page-1/#comment-28072 Thu, 31 Oct 2013 05:05:58 +0000 https://sedonaeye.com/?p=34194#comment-28072 Nice try Council Man Mike – to defuse the real issues you are elected and very responsible for – away from your seeming passion. How about having same passion for the taxpayers and how about getting this out of tune city back on track?

]]> By: Anything you need? https://sedonaeye.com/eye-on-sedona-with-city-councilman-michael-ward/comment-page-1/#comment-28062 Thu, 31 Oct 2013 02:21:31 +0000 https://sedonaeye.com/?p=34194#comment-28062 And to thank the locals who spend countless hours volunteering, clearing trails, picking up trash… they repay us by locking the bathroom stalls. Thank you. What else can we do to help? A fed up American

]]> By: Warren https://sedonaeye.com/eye-on-sedona-with-city-councilman-michael-ward/comment-page-1/#comment-28049 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 16:25:06 +0000 https://sedonaeye.com/?p=34194#comment-28049 “Federal budget cuts have forced the forest service to find creative ways to conserve our trails.”

This is the usual misinfo from the USFS and their apologists. It does not correlate to reality however.

After years and years of steady increases in the USFS budget — 60% between 2000 and 2008 for example — the Great Recession kicked in and appropriations have been pretty much frozen at that level ever since. Not my idea of “Federal budget cuts”.

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