The mayor’s guest column

October 13th, 2009 at 02:34pm Wally Haas

Rockford Mayor Larry Morrissey wrote a guest column for last Sunday’s paper about the city’s budget challenges before a tentative deal was reached with the city’s firefighters. City Legal Director Patrick Hayes called me about 7:30 Friday night to let me know the firefighters had a tentative deal and whether we could add an editor’s note to the mayor’s article that said it was written before the deal.

I said it would be better to have the mayor re-write the piece, which the mayor did.  However, the mayor’s original article was posted online without an editor’s note. We took that down and posted the revised version when it was brought to our attention that the version online was not the version in the print edition.

Some folks are trying to make a controversy of this and have all kinds of conspiracy theories. It’s not a big deal. We should have kept the original up and added the revised version instead of replacing the original. There’s nothing to hide.  HERE’s a link to the original. HERE’s the revised version.

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