Bicknell would be a good place to live and would be growing if the mayors and city councils would just leave it alone. Bicknell is being destroyed from the inside out by those who should be healing it not the desease that is killing it. I have found it very difficult to remove the good ol boys mentality, you know you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.

I have worked to remove democrats and replace them with republicans but the republicans turned into the exact same people that they replaced; 12 years ago the city elected officials cost Bicknell, this has been going on with the democratic party for 20 years or more, so 8 years ago we changed to a republican council and they did the exact same thing as the democratic council did so 4 years ago we, the city voters, mixed the council and guess what they did the exact same thing that the last 2 councils did.

So if you can't vote for a democrat to help Bicknell and you can't vote for a republican to help Bicknell and you can't mix them to help Bicknell what is the Bicknell voter supposed to do?

John R. Stanczak