From Bay View to Biker Gangs

I don't think you could call Bay View a town, more like an enclave or a subdivision.  It's the neighborhood just west of the golf course where the streets meander around instead of being laid out in a proper grid.  They also own some of the waterfront north of US 31, but I don't think any of the businesses on 31 are part of Bay View.  I noticed that the golf course is called "Petoskey Bay View Country Club", but I don't know if it's part of Bay View or a separate thing.  Everything else around there is part of greater Petoskey, but I'm not sure how much of it is within the city limits.  The houses were built in the Victorian style, back when the Victorian style was a new thing.  They always impressed me as being quite fancy.  Perhaps the owners would call them rustic, but I've never heard of anyone calling them shabby.  Bay View is well known for the music programs they put on each summer.  They have their own concert hall, but they occasionally put on real operas in the Cheboygan Opera House.  Other than that, there is the golf course, some tennis courts, the beach out front, and the woods out back.  If that's not enough to keep the Bay Viewers occupied, they can always go to Petoskey, which has a little bit of everything.

So Chicago just elected a gay Black woman as mayor.  Michigan has a gay woman for Attorney General, but she's not Black.  Well, what did you think was going to happen?  The Democrats have been advocating diversity for decades.  The thing is, all those people don't just vote for Democrats, they become Democrats.  One of these days, Uncle Ken will go to one of his board meetings, everybody will be speaking Spanish instead of English, and a sign on the door will say "No Gringos Need Apply".  Remember, you heard it first from Talk With Beagles.

All I know about the North Side of Chicago is what my parents told me long ago: "There is nothing on the North Side that you need to see!  Besides, the streets are too narrow and there's no place to park."

Old Dog's link about the biker shootout didn't give a lot of details, but I suspect it's like that big fight that happened aboard a school bus somewhere in our region some years ago.  The prosecutor reported that he interviewed 50 different witnesses and got 50 different stories.  You can't take something like that to court.