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Tuesday night’s Cameron City Council Meeting will address the water portion of the suggested Utility Rate hikes which are projected to raise citizen monthly payments on water, sewer and electric rates by a significant amount per month, an amount as significant but exponentially bigger for...
News... 1) Rate study/pipeline questions A) can we assume that a 65% water rate increase is just to break even when assuming the payments on the pipeline? B) from community response, it's our understanding that community participation on the pipeline was voted down twice...that being the case, how...
Cameron --- Engineering firm HDR presented its findings on Cameron’s current utility rate structures for electric, water, and sewer service, and while discussion during the event was muted at best, save some hard questioning from Councilman John Feighert, community response over the event washed...
See attached the Rate Study presentation to the City Council during their work session January 14. Comprehensive follow-up story to come...We've been researching this since Tuesday night.
The McLaughlin Files
For 1/16/2025 edition
For my part, I was focused in the moment on what was actually happening in the meeting to give a good account of it. I found myself a little disappointed by the community turnout and equally disappointed in the discussion, or lack thereof, between...
Cameron — The Cameron City Council voted 4-0 with one abstention to place a final vote on the January 20 Council agenda to decide once for all the final disposition of the City Hall controversy.
The decision on voting on the decision…if you can follow all that, should result in the City placing for...
Reed-Hibler submits plan to City for 200 Block of Third Street Buildings
By Mark McLaughlin
Editor, Citizen-Observer
Cameron —Gina Reed-Hibler, city councilwoman, area real estate developer and historical preservationist has submitted the required plan on the 200 Block of Third Streetto Cameron...
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Health and safety tips paramount to winter weather preparations
JEFFERSON CITY, MO – The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch covering nearly every Missouri county from Saturday...
Cameron Police Dispatch “Piece of the Puzzle” in the City Hall Debate
By Mark McLaughlin
Editor, Citizen-Observer
Cameron --- Even if the City Hall debate wasn’t the dominating news story of the last year, as well as the moment, The Cameron Police Dispatch Center and its development and expansion...
THE MCLAUGHLIN FILES—PRESS DAY PLUS TWO
By Mark McLaughlin
Editor
Citizen-Observer
cowboy up, y'all...
Cameron, MO — Resolution of the City Hall debacle, an apocalypse twenty years in the making, is moving towards a climax.
Something is going to happen in the next two Cameron City Council...