Thank you to all of those helping financially. I look forward to casting my vote on Tuesday, so I can do my little part to push back even slightly against the mess that Lansing continues to hand us.

When a screen name varies from the one previously used by the same person, the comment gets automatically flagged and sent to the moderation queue. Typically, I’ll simply shoot the commenter an email and say something like, “Hey, c’mon …” But if no valid email address is supplied I can’t do that.

Choosing a screen name that itself expresses a specific point of view on a particular topic doesn’t typically mesh well with the idea of picking a name and sticking to it. What if you’ve chosen the screen name, “No Conference Center on the Library Lot!” and all you want to do is let people know the scientific name of a bug someone photographed for a Stopped.Watched. item?

Anyway, I don’t mean this as an occasion to open the general topic of screen names verses real names.

Rather than waiting for a resubmitted comment under a previously adopted screen name, here’s the basic information that a commenter would like us to look at – a list of names and dollar amounts: [.pdf of the campaign contributions to the millage campaign from the county clerk's website]

All those names in the list are actual names of actual people – no screen names allowed on those campaign finance forms!