Today's paper quotes Oshkosh Mayor Bill Castle as saying "it's getting damn close" to pulling the plug on the Five Rivers development. Since Castle's views are typically a bellwether for what the shadowy golf course set that runs the city are thinking, this could mean the end for Five Rivers in Oshkosh.
In the same story, Dennis McHugh states the obvious: "The process has become an embarrassment." (Something that has been true at least since the "Valentine's Day Massacre of Open Goverment"--the February 14th closed meeting protested by the Five Rivers Five.).
Tom Doig and Ben Ganther can take solace in the fact that Councilor Meredith Scheuermann is still doing their bidding for them: "I don't think we should stay the course, but I don't think we should dig in our heels so far that we're not willing to be global on this piece until the end." Actually I have no idea what that statement means, but it doesn't sound like a firm commitment to vote against another term sheet extension or 180 degree shift in its conditions.
Here's Kent Monte's take on all of this.
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My own thoughts on the latest with this project can be found at Eye on Oshkosh.com.
Bottom line: It is time to pull the plug on all public financing of this project and let the developer do it on his own or float down the river (or five rivers) to his next town of guinea pigs.
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