Jonathan Haller wrote: I have to say, you guys are opening my eyes to many things I had no idea about. You just don't find good discussions about Middletown elsewhere. (If they do exist, they are hard to find since there is so much BS on other forums).

Mr. Haller: Thank you!!!

You are correct. When we tried to have similar discussions on other web sites, either they were shut down or we were not allowed to post.

Other forums allow “good news” and propaganda ONLY!

If one wants to clean or paint or polish, there are plenty of places where one can go to be told what to do and how to do it and that’s a good thing. But does anyone really believe that a fresh coat of paint and some lipstick will create a new Middletown? Are “style” and “symbolism” really the things that landed our fair city at #1 on the Forbes’ List of fastest dying Cities (under 100,00 pop.)?

In order to SOLVE our problems we first have to admit that we have some, then identify those problems, determine what caused them, solve them, and put measures in place to assure that they do not recur! Middletown’s city hall wants to hear none of this.

MiddletownUSA’s Forum is becoming “THE” place for the free and open discussions necessary if there is to be any hope of stopping the decline of our city.

We true “Middletonians” (both native and newcomer) thank you for that!

And we wonder what can be done to increase readership. Other than word-of-mouth (or, in today’s world, perhaps it is “word-of-web”) how is one able to learn of this site? As you commented above regarding other sites, this site is also “hard to find”!