Captain Edward Smith

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Edward John Smith (27 January 1850 - 15 April 1912) was an English naval reserve officer who served as commanding officer of numerous White Star Line vessels. He was best known as the captain of RMS Titanic and died when the ship sank in 1912.

Like the Titanic, our beloved fair city, the Industrial Crossroads of Ohio, the City of Champions has hit the financial iceberg.

It has hit the iceberg as the decisions of our Once & Future Mayor for Life have collided with our once heretofore unsinkable city. The years of overspending, the double digit debt issues, the runaway overtime, the free wheeling spending of money when it was clear to everyone, well, almost everyone that the dollars were not there.

Fortunately for the citizens of the City of Champions, we have people representing us who are focused like a laser beam on the financial well being of Tigertown.

We have council members who have stepped up to the challenge, and have brought forward the needed common sense plans to deal with the critical issues of the day.

Like who sits up front at the council meetings.

Seriously.

No joke.

Captain Smith is rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic as the ship is quickly sinking to the bottom of the ocean.

Apparently, the big issue of the day for a number of our esteemed city councilors is who sits where at the council meetings.

They don't want the mayor and the members of the administration to sit up front with the council.

It is speculated this is some sort of punishment for Kathy Catazaro-from-Perry for hiring former Massillon Schools Superintendent Al Hennon as Safety & Services Director.

And this is their response.

To ban her from the front of council chambers.

And they introduced a resolution to do it.

And, apparently, this is being seriously debated.

At real meetings.

This better be a joke.

Massillon has real problems, and anyone who is seriously pushing this as an issue of legislative importance is incapable of serving as a leader of this city and should seriously consider quitting as they lack the capacity to deal with rudimentary problems, let alone a city in fiscal emergency.

This isn't high school. If the mayor took your prom date, and you throw a tantrum, you don't get to move her to a different table at lunch.

And if this is the case, then all is lost.

The ship is truly heading to the bottom of the sea.

And, in the reportedly final words of Captain Edward Smith to his crew, "You know the rule of the sea. It's every man for himself now, and God bless you."