County rejects closing NR nursing home
October 3, 2012 at 3:35 am in Hudson Star-Observer
The St. Croix County Board of Supervisors rejected a move to close its nursing home facility in New Richmond and passed a resolution to build a new one in a marathon meeting Tuesday.
Supervisors Daryl Standafer, Tim Hood, Fred Yoerg, Buck Malick, Chris Kilber, Richard Ottino and Tom Hawksford voted to close the facility but the resolution passed by a 12-7 margin.
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The black hole of government confiscating our hard-earned money just keeps getting larger. In 10 years, we will realize what a mistake we made in not closing this place.
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Not to fear – this was just a feel good vote. Nothing will be built because they still don’t have the votes needed to dig yet another hole. The board is right back where they were back in 2006 or so when they voted to build then too.
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