Council tight lipped about new media move

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After a decade of almost free money provided through credit, suddenly the credit is being turned off and the world’s “Sovereign Debt” and “Failing National Economies” have entered the lexicon.

Looking from the grass roots upwards, the current Council operates like a state government department with power and direction flowing down from the Mayor and senior bureaucrats.

The Daily Star has scaled back its' use of the social networking programs like Facebook as serious data-harvesting claims have been made about the way some of these applications report your internet usage back to marketers in America.

Describing himself as “centre right” politically, blogger Tim Badrick says journalism has been revived by the rise of internet based citizen journalism — including those from politics left field.

The Council lawyers have been instructed that if the agreement is not signed in seven days after the September meeting, they are instructed to proceed to a default assessment of the costs statement.  That is, they will shut down TMPA.

Population growth rates on Tamborine Mountain eclipsed those of Beaudesert over the past ten years according to figures obtained by the Daily Star from the State Government Department of Economic and Statistical Research.  Kooralbyn is estimated to have grown by over 70% whilst Rathdowney shrank by 3% over the ten year period.

Council CEO Craig Barke was absent from last week's Council meeting.  The Mayor, the Courier Mail and Greg Hallam from the shadowy Local Government Association Queensland say it was because of stress - Barke says it was not.  Meanwhile our survey indicates our highly paid CEO should front up and justify himself to ratepayers.