As for the big picture, trying to change the way things are in Hesperia is not really a one person show that happens as fast as some would like. This web site has been up and running for going on 3 years, exchanging information and view points about local issues while trying to be tolerant of every ones opinion. I probably work on it for at least an hour each day and everything to do with it comes out of my pocket. Cause and effect are hard to quantify, but this years paving budget came in at around $20 million dollars. The reason I started this website was that only $3 million dollars was allocated towards paving roads out of the $126 million dollar city budget 3 years ago. So an increase of $17 million bucks towards paving roads since I started is not bad for a mailman running a website in his spare time.

I'm still going to try and get the property owners group going but I only have so much free time with work- family-my life etc. The planning commission job was not my goal but wanting to be involved in what happens in Hesperia, and having a say in it, is. So I try and learn as much as I can about how things work and apply my agenda, which is to get public services and quality of life issues as the priorities for the City of Hesperia.

As far as Tad Honeycutt goes, my opinion doesn't count and doesn't make any difference. The last jury I was on (a murder case) showed me the difference between what you read in the papers (or now what you read online) and what the evidence is presented in court. Also, how you have to evaluate the evidence according to the law that the judge tells you is applicable. Its a different world on the jury then what the public sees. But if your not sitting on that jury, you don't get to vote guilty or not guilty. So opinions or bashing away at someone may make some people feel better, they really don't accomplish anything towards changing things. The best we can hope for is that justice is served, one way or another. There's no way of predicting how a jury will rule. Remember OJ? Or Robert Blake? Reading the papers, they looked guilty as sin. But they both walked. I'll wait for the verdict before commenting.