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Mayor Jim Suttle

Plow It Again, Jim!

February 9, 2010

More snow. More potholes. More obstacles and giant holes in Jim Suttle’s tenure as Omaha’s mayor. Suttle isn’t taking this one lying down. “We need a garbage fee,” said the mayor late last week, apparently because he was tired of taking questions from irate citizens with thousands of dollars in car repair bills caused by [...]

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Suttle Pardons Thunder Collins

August 30, 2009

It was a stormy Monday for Thunder Collins last week, but the former Nebraska running back can stop picking out drapes for his jail cell, because he won’t be there much longer. Omaha Mayor Jim Suttle pardoned Collins on Thursday, probably the first time an Omaha mayor has pardoned a hardened criminal since Mayor [...]

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Mayor Suttle On The Hunt For New Police Chief

August 3, 2009

Omaha Police Chief Eric Buske is taking his pension and moving to Texas, where he and the pension will both be safe from Mayor Jim Suttle and his roving band of budget heart surgeons. “What can I say,” said Buske, “my kids like to swim, and the pools here are, uh, closing?”
A Weird-Harold special victims [...]

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Suttle Bogeys

July 31, 2009

I am within the budget . . . We need professional people. We’re having a heart attack. I need a surgeon, not a carpenter.
–Mayor Jim “I Am Not Hal Daub” Suttle defending his decision to double the salaries of selected staff members

Boy, we know the feeling, because we’re having a panic attack, and we need [...]

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City Finance Chief Will Cost Even More

July 20, 2009

Mayor Suttle continues his knack for executing one faux pas after another by naming a new city finance director who will be paid a whopping $80,000 more than her predecessor. The appointment of Pam Spaccarotella to the finance position to the tune of $180,000 per year riled other city employees who are being asked to [...]

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Suttle Dumps Hybrid For Armored Tank

July 3, 2009

When the going get’s rough, the tough get rougher vehicles.
Mayor Jim Suttle’s office today announced that the mayor is turning over the keys to his Dodge Durango hybrid and will begin driving an armored M1 Abrams battle tank, care of the United States government. The vehicle change comes after public outcry over the mayor’s [...]

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Omaha Mayor Appoints O.J. As Police Auditor

June 1, 2009

In addition to naming a box of hair and a man accused of having sex with an underage boy as co-chiefs of staff, Omaha’s mayor-elect, Jim Suttle, has announced that he is appointing O.J. Simpson to the post of police auditor.

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Suttle Names Box Of Hair As Chief Of Staff

May 14, 2009

Less than twenty-four hours after the election was decided, Suttle named a box of hair as his Chief of Staff.

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The Candidates And The Issues

May 10, 2009

For nearly a decade, Omahans have enjoyed the luxury of not thinking about their mayor. Mike Fahey was a benevolent absentee landlord, who ruled from the Ozarks and the Holiday Lounge. But now it’s election time, and we’re forced to recall that Omaha not only has a mayor but we have to vote for [...]

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Unable To Locate Anyone Who Voted In Tuesday’s Primary

April 9, 2009

Many thoughtful readers wrote in asking how the most powerful and least reliable source for news in the Mid-Heartland could fail to report on the results of Tuesday’s election primary and the mayor’s race. Here at Weird Harold, we spend extravagant amounts of money on good old-fashioned shoe-leather journalism and man-on-the-street reporting. That, coupled with [...]

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