The woman said she hoped the rain would hold off until her flood insurance became active on August 7.
No such luck. As I'm typing, I hear a drip in a place a drip shouldn't be. It's a sign o' the times.
I've posted the meeting notes, having been denied Internet access last evening, and now I'm opening the floor for comments.
Assuming you're not busy with water removal.
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Late note: New Albany City Council goes for stormwater increase (Daniel Suddeath's Tribune coverage).
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The city needs to look at mandatory recycling, seriously. We only have to set our garbage can out every 2-3 weeks now that we have begun to recycle everything that can be. New Albany could go to bi-monthly pick up.
I think a lot of us thought this council would be an improvement over the last. A lot of us were wrong.
Agreed, Bluegill. Unfortunately, there was a time a few months ago that I actually thought this council was starting to go in the right direction. I always was a sucker for that "pump" fake.
speaking of wasting resources, at 8:15 this morning, right in the thick of the storm I looked out my front window to see the street sweeper and traffic cop chugging along in the pouring rain!
Change will not happen with the same people in charge decade after decade.
From todays Tribune article by Daniel Suddeath:
Price agrees trash service should be addressed, but feels a jump from $13.75 to $18.75 a month is too much.
“There’s other options and there’s smarter options,” he said"
Of the two, I'm betting that Mr. Price is for the "other" options!
In all frankness, I can't say I'm disappointed in the council.
beat, beat, beat.
It is the people of New Albany, the ignorant and the not-so, who blithely contribute to the tragedy twice a year through property taxes, and weekly or bi-weekly through income taxes, and then say "I have no use for politics."
I know, I've said it before, and lost friends because of it, but it is insanity to fund, without protest, policies that are inimical to your own best interests.
Until people realize that espousing an attitude that politics is beneath them is the same as paying bribes to the mob (I'll give you my taxes, but I won't pay attention), nothing will change.
People, TAKE back your government. Meet your representatives and question them thoroughly. Judge them. Then either support them or throw them out.
Yeah, I'm angry. If you're not, then I feel sorry for you.
Sorry. I know the readers who will admit to reading this aren't the target for my diatribe. But 90% of you weren't there last night, either. WHY NOT?
John Hale, on only the second page of his fantastic new book, offers the solution. Pick someone who IS angry, who will not settle for more insanity, who isn't afraid to say the emperor has no clothes. Support that person and oppose his or her enemies.
Only then can you take back your city and your money and make it work FOR you instead of against you.
That is all. Gaaaaahh!
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