Talk:James C. Hayes

So who decided to exclude his Fraud conviction for that grey building on 23rd Ave? Here have a source: https://www.justice.gov/archive/tax/usaopress/2008/txdv08_Hayes_Jim_and_Chris_080502.pdf
 * I took care of itBahb the Illuminated (talk) 05:04, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
 * The building's on 24th Avenue, not 23rd. Anyway, this is your typical Wikipedia clusterfuck, a haphazard collection of sentences tied together solely by the mere presence of cherry-picked sources.  The article mentions his tenure on the city council, even though nothing of note happened.  It doesn't mention that he was a member of the school board in the 1970s, where he made plenty of waves working in concert with the Fairbanks NAACP to bring racial issues to light.  It also doesn't mention many things which occurred during his tenure as mayor: the controversial attempt to merge the police and fire departments into a public safety department, which was marred when large amounts of evidence disappeared from the police station under the leadership of a certain department director;  the sale of the Fairbanks Municipal Utility System, which effectively ended the ability of the city to further annex significant amounts of territory;  the murder of John Hartman, which years later further shone negative light on the city's law enforcement (see Fairbanks Four), and so on and so forth. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions  10:47, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Nah it's that huge grey church on 23rd that the funds were diverted to. The proper place the funds were to go was the real rec center on 24th, correct. I remember Chief Mike Pulice (sp) has a hand in the records disappearance IIRC and the chief kept a mistress on payroll as a personal assistant. This occurred under Jim's watch too. But I got no access to News-Miner records to site that stuff. The federal charge I knew I could find. Bahb the Illuminated (talk) 02:54, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
 * FDNM archives are found here. There's also a NewsBank archive, except it starts with 2001 and NewsBank is a lot more aggressive about its paywall.  I avoided mentioning Pulice by name because I found a clear indication that he's still alive and living in Anchorage.  People are trigger-happy about WP:BLP around here. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions  05:12, 17 May 2024 (UTC)