Dick Conoboy

Citizen Journalist and Editor • Member since Jan 26, 2008

Dick Conoboy is a recovering civilian federal worker and military officer who was offered and accepted an all-expense paid, one year trip to Vietnam in 1968. He is a former Army Foreign Area Specialist for Western Europe and Southeast Asia, counter-terrorism intelligence analyst and information/security manager at the Defense Department. Dick also worked as a resource manager at various government offices to include then VP Al Gore’s National Partnership for Re-inventing Government, now recognized as having been a shamefully neo-liberal “think tank”. He speaks fluent French and a passable English learned through many years of elementary school experience diagramming sentences. Dick owes his writing ability to consuming large amounts of chemical laden and fried fresh water pike and perch fished from Lake Erie in the 40s and 50s near his native Cleveland whose Cuyahoga River regularly catches on fire.

Dick Conoboy online:
http://zonemaven.blogspot.com/

Articles by Dick Conoboy

Renewed Push for a National Infrastructure Bank

By Dick ConoboyOn Jul 28, 2023

Last month, Illinois Congressman Danny K. Davis (D-IL) announced his introduction of a new National Infrastructure Bank (NIB) bill, H.R.4052. As I reported previously in my article entitled, National [...]

Support Russ Whidbee For City Council At-Large

By Dick ConoboyOn Jul 07, 2023

“I will listen to the entire spectrum of voices represented within our city.”Russ Whidbee has served his community for decades through volunteering on dozens of nonprofit organizations and charities. [...]

Flippin’ CityView

By Dick ConoboyOn Jun 29, 2023

[Update: 6/30/2023.  In the last paragraph of my article below, I stated that I would look into the expiration dates of the approvals to build the private student dormitory.  [...]

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Recent comments

"Satpal, Thank you for your continued and steadfast support of public banking in all its forms including an infrastructure bank.  Perhaps you could place before the County Council a [...]

Jul 28, 2023 on
Renewed Push for a National Infrastructure Bank

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Jul 07, 2023 on
Support Russ Whidbee For City Council At-Large

"To our readers, Our commenter above, David Swanson, forgets at times that he is not in Finland anymore.  I am not sure if he is trying to reprise Dorothy [...]

Jun 29, 2023 on
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Jun 23, 2023 on
Define "Mandate"

"And in a related development the city of LA just “discovered” this scrap plant’s pollution after the place has operated since 1949 next to a school! “For generations of students, [...]

Jun 22, 2023 on
Define "Mandate"