You can tell you’re in North Iowa by the stench coming from Washington Avenue and the Globe’s editorial board. This is almost unprecedented; the Globe turning on one of their advertisers… rare.
A few years ago the Globe sent a reporter to Floyd, Iowa to write a review on a new restaurant that had opened. The reporter said they had terrific steaks. I thought, what the hell it might be true. So we piled into the car and drove there.
This meal was not the worst decision I ever made but it was close to the top. I wrote my own review, it went something like this: “The food tasted like it was prepared in a nursing home kitchen, the only identifying characteristics were an abundance of grizzle and fat. The potatoes were not thoroughly cooked and were left in a pan under a warming lamp to begin a rapid descent into hell. The fried cauliflower was cold in the middle and the house wine I ordered taste like gravel from the parking lot as it went down.”
The Globe just laughed, wouldn’t write the truth about how bad the food actually was. Not a chance in hell would they piss off someone who was spending $30.00 a month. Now, I have been told that Chop has a $700.00 credit sitting at the Globe… go figure their logic if you can.
I am not implying that if you spend money at the Globe you should become bullet-proof… but you should be at the very least entitled to the truth. The truth is never welcome at any party, and it sure as hell would be unrecognizable at 300 North Washington Ave. They long-ago dismissed it in favor of an agenda.
Peter Children of Mason City
i’m so glad I moved from Mason City…. you have two “news” sites, this one and the globe. all they do is bitch about one another and nothing ever gets reported.
We are so glad you moved out of town too.
blah blah blah Children. She’s still got more class and brains in her little finger than you have in your entire dull body. Nice try trying to smear her with the bartender reference. lol But only makes you look like the dufuss and classless. (and we all know how you like to think you have class) She got elected mayor didn’t she. What have you done with your life besides sell over priced pictures. The Barlases have been serving minors and drunks past their limit since the 70’s. About time someone stopped their money grubbing ways.
Reggie is Peter Lagios
I figured out who reggies really is; peter Lagios. Figures
Shit is rolling again
Did he pay his fines yet?
only the guilty pay fines
He should have no problem paying then.
Sam-Unfortunately when you don’t show up at the court hearing you are basically telling the court “I am guilty”. I do not think he showed up at any court procedures related to this case.
“Gristle, not “grizzle.
What is it with the “Peters” that post on here and their Nazi references?
What I can’t understand is not only the nazis references, but why a certain “Peter” keeps posting on this site. Especially when he went to the lengths to start a Facebook page saying how much he hates the owner of this site and how bad this site is. I cannot understand this type of hiprocrasy. Just goes to show what a jack ass he really is.
^He is. Don’t be fooled by his fb page about how he feels about NorthIowaToday. The FACT of the matter is…Peter Lagios is addicted to NIT like a crack addict. Can’t say as I blame him…this place ROCKS!
Peter will never leave…he simply doesn’t have the strength to fight the urge no matter how much he “says” he hates it. He is just to addicted and mentally weak.
Move over Dan Rather, there’s a new news hound in town. I smell a Pulitzer!!!
Its not a Pulitzer you smell, its BS
Speaking of the glob, did anybody else notice the glob raised the price of the Sunday paper from $2.50 to $3.00? That does it, I’m canceling my subscription. Oh wait, I don’t have a subscription. Haven’t had one for years
Correction – “Peter”.
True article Pete, obviously there was a conflict with “competition”, the other government started businesses, Decker house, Park inn, the new hotel/motel they are trying to land for downtown, all serving food/bar, have deeper pockets.
Decker and HPI are hardly competitors of the former Eleven. They dont cater to the same crowd and their record with the PD is without blemish.
$700 credit with the GG? Even if it is true why would you betray the Barlas Family and go public with this information. With friends like you who needs enemies? You are not to be trusted.
I do not understand the point of this op-ed.
nobody cares if you understand it or not.
Nobody care if you care dumbshi#
Years ago the GG wrote a positive article about a restaurant in another community and you disagreed with their opinion of the dining experience. And you are still carrying that around in your gunny sack? Let it go brother, lighten your self inflicted burden.
But you continue and then shoot yourself in your other foot by suggesting that a line of credit obligates the GG.
Shut up Pete.
“Jean Marinos: Fought the senior condos tooth and nail ‘cute it might cost her a buck, but didn’t hesitate to attack a “fellow” Greek.” Peter why do you always bring up the”Greek” card. ? Aren’t most of these people actually 2nd or 3rd generation Americans ?
“‘cute it might cost her a buck,”I just caught this . What the heck does “cute “mean in this sentence? English is NOT Peter’s second language. It might be a distant third.
It seems to me that Peter is actually giving kudos to both the Globe and Ms. Marinos. He is just too blind to know it, Both the Globe and Jean had something to lose and did what they thought was best for the community as a whole. You might not agree with them but you should not question their integrity.
Reggie; I know for a fact that peter is second generation American, both he and his mother were born in Mason City. The mere fact that he is fluent in two languages does not make him a foreigner, it makes him smart.
I don’t know if “smart” is the correct word here. Probably ‘educated’ would be a better choice. “smart” means intelligent and Peter is not intelligent.
“fluent in two languages” Let me guess which ones they are . Greek and Chinese? No that’s not it. Greek and Russian? No maybe Greek and Spanish because it sure isn’t Greek and English.
I think Peter needs a Yelp account. The reviews would be spot on, and priceless!
Wow, a rebuke as scathing as this one, especially coming from a Golden Pen award winner, has to have the Globe Gazette doubled over from a gut punch like this one.
Council members are supposed to represent their constituents, not one member of their ethnicity!
Its very common to abstain in matters such as this; why didn’t she, what was she trying to prove? anybody want to guess?
That’s ridiculous. There was just a jury trial where a guy said he couldn’t get a fair trial because there were no members of his race in the jury pool. Barlas should have been glad someone of his “ilk” was on the council. It made it fairer for him. You can’t bow out of every decision because there is a person of your faith or race or ethnic background involved.
You know that the globe won’t print the truth, unless it benefits them.