Your town: Los Angeles, CA
Your town: Los Angeles, CA
Twin Cities Central Corridor / Dealmakers hold ticket to new li...
Actually, the FEDS seem to be paying the lions share. If LRT cannot support itself, why should the rest of the country pay for even more Oberstar pork? (Sunday May 11 | post #23)
Twin Cities Central Corridor / Dealmakers hold ticket to new li...
Then the metro area (perhaps the Met Council) should PAY for it. Those of us out in the boonies are tired of footing the bill to make the metro more "livable, " all the while watching all of the jobs disappear from rural MN (Saturday May 10 | post #16)
Review: Strip Club in St. Paul, carving a chip off an old block.
I must be abnormal. Perhaps this is my Aspergers. I don't CARE what the service is like. Anything beyond competent is lost on me. I want decent food at a reasonable price. Then again, I prefer chains to local boutique shops. (Thursday May 8 | post #3)
Nothing for the birds to sing about, either
This is the job of PARENTS, not the tax payers. Our local district is not replacing their one and only Chem/Physics instructor due to "cost cutting." At the same board meeting it was decided to build a new track. (Wednesday May 7 | post #10)
Pine County officials investigating 10 structure fires as arson
Each of the cabins, due to property values and tax rates, likely paid MORE in property tax than most houses in Pine City. You know, that city way down on the southern reaches of the county? The problem is two fold 1) The sheriff's office and most of southern pine county refuse to accept that there is intelligent life north of Hwy 48 2) The sheriff's office is too obsessed with the Cause célèbre of drunk driving to care much about anything else. The problem was Big Pine Lake, not Lake Pokegema, I wonder why? More law enforcement patrols perhaps? A bar or C-Store is never robbed, coincidence? (Apr 14, 2008 | post #33)
Pine County officials investigating 10 structure fires as arson
Pine county has a burglary problem. This problem has been exacerbated by a sheriff who only seems to care about DUI arrests. While his deputies are parked outside of the bars, parked on the overpasses or somewhere else trolling for a DUI, houses and vehicles are routinely broken into. At one point they stopped sending a deputy to investigate, the office girls would simple send you a "loss letter" for you to itemize what was stolen. I would bet arson to cover up burglary. (Apr 13, 2008 | post #5)
Central Corridor dead - or alive?
You shouldn't have to. You also should not have to pay for LGA for cites that refuse to allow developers to come in for fears of "quality of life." If you want to maintain the 1956 feel to your town, you should be willing to pay a premium for it. (Apr 10, 2008 | post #177)
Central Corridor dead - or alive?
If this is such a good thing, why hasn't a private developer done it? If this is such a benefit to the commuters, why not pay for it with a locally generated tax rather than tapping all of us out here in the boonies who will never need to ride it? If this is sucha good thing, why won't people pay a fare that will support even the operating costs of the choo choo? (Apr 9, 2008 | post #2)
One dead, dozens taken to hospital after bus crash in Albertville
Extracurriculars may be a good thing (at least for some kids). This does not change the fact that this is not a core responsibilityof a school district. Educate the kids. Let their parents make them in to "well rounded" people. (Apr 8, 2008 | post #28)
One dead, dozens taken to hospital after bus crash in Albertville
Many people work graves every day. Many OTR drivers drive all night. The fact that one individual may have fallen asleep does not mean we need to go back to the exclusively diurnal system of Opie and Aunt Bee. (Apr 8, 2008 | post #27)
One dead, dozens taken to hospital after bus crash in Albertville
They were on the road because it makes no sense to waste one night of a tight schedule sleeping while stationary. IT is common to travel by night, this way you get to the destination in the morning and are ready to to do whatever the plan had to do. Adding mandatory hotel stops simply makes the trip take longer. It is no longer 1956. Life has a faster pace. (Apr 8, 2008 | post #24)
Where's a task force to recruit Volvo?
Get rid of LGA and see how fast cities figure out that industry is actually a good thing. I swear that most towns here are trying to run SimCity with no yellow spaces. Lots of mass transit to bring people to work, but no jobs to actually go to. (Apr 7, 2008 | post #11)
One dead, dozens taken to hospital after bus crash in Albertville
When are we going stop sending school kids willy-nilly for extracurriculars? (Apr 5, 2008 | post #1)
The Campaign / Obama would tap Gore for Cabinet
I have a better education in science that algore has. (Apr 3, 2008 | post #21)
I thought that new gas tax was a user fee for the roads. The difference between roads and the Choo-Choo is who pays the "fee". With roads, the users pay, with the LRT boondoggle non-users pay to subsidize a system they will never use because they don't commute. (Apr 3, 2008 | post #97)
