River, the site name is Granite City Gossip, but ive been on and off this site for years and the only time i ever saw local issues carry the day on here was when we had all that drama with Nameoki Township before their last two elections. You can only talk about Mr. Smiths new tractor or another Granite City business bolting so many times. If all we had on this site were in fact local level stuff, the site would be dead.