Village attorney hits taxpayers for $19,252.50 over three months,

Now, despite Ray Pollen's false and incorrect advice on hyperlinks and 'cookie' files, he wants 'a modest rate increase'

Just days after the Village approves its 2005 budget, Pollen demands a raise

Proposal would give Pollen a 4% raise despite bad advice

2003 -- Pollen averaged $3,697.35 per month
2004 -- Pollen averaged $4,414.58 per month (Jan.-Sept.)

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 Herald newspapers shake down democracy for profits

SHOREWOOD, WI. (Nov. 23, 2004) -- Candidates for trustee in the 2005 municipal election will find that since Journal Communications' weekly newspaper subsidiary  merged the Shorewood Herald with five other former community newspapers earlier this year, the cost of a two-column by six-inch display ad jumped from $182 in the spring 2004 election to $479 for a similar ad in the upcoming municipal election, according to Marcia Brown of the new North Shore Herald. Candidates and other advertisers must now buy advertising in a publication that goes to four other communities, based on circulation numbers reported by the Audit Bureau of Circulations -- the industry organization whose members include three newspapers who admit they've ripped off advertisers by inflating circulation numbers.

Meanwhile, Journal Communications executives say the company does "not feel a need" to participate in Shorewood's Media & Democracy Forum Monday.  Document

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How progressive must Shorewood seem when the village attorney moonlights as consigliere to dog-killing hillbillies who hack village residents?

Tennessee officials previously represented by Village Attorney Ray Pollen in a Shorewood hacking case agree to settle for $77,500 in unrelated execution-style killing of vacationing family's pet dog as they passed through the methamphetamine producing, murder-prone constitutional backwater 85 miles east of Nashville
 

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