I wasn’t at the August 24th meeting, but read the article from the paper of the last city council meeting.  I think it is very interesting that the city council, unanimously turned down the request for the liquor license for the Star Bar because of past violations of the new owner.  The new owner along with several other character witnesses say this is all in the past.  Yet the city decides to turn down the request.  I may have also voted against it just because of the history of calls to this bar.  I don’t know if calls have decreased or increased since the new owner took over.

The one thing that makes me go hm-mm, is the fact that 2 if not 3 people sitting at the council table also have a DUI on their record and yet they have ‘turned their life around’ and now are getting a paycheck from the city.  Yet they didn’t seem to be acknowledging that this new owner has turned his life around.  Maybe they know something else about him that didn’t come up in the meeting or they are just retaliating because of the past history of the bar.