Comments on: Leading Off (9/4/08)

By: jrp

jrp — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:02:45 +0000

misused apostrophe there…oopsy…too much typing today. must stop

4:20 yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHdjqsSSa_A

By: jrp

jrp — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:00:00 +0000

who needs curbs and roads without potholes when you can have a convention center hotel that few citizen’s will ever use

nice, clear city streets, schmeets, gimme a toll road in a flood plain. that’s what i need.

By: JB

JB — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:24:10 +0000

If they are going to hire Scarborough Faeries to fix the streets, the City should just go full on and hire CARNIES to fix the streets. I spend about 30 minutes a day at the Garland Buckner intersection because of construction and it would be just awsomly entertaining to see fire breathers heating asphault, stilt walkers fixing street lights, and The Worlds Fattest Man leveling concrete while I wait.

By: Bethany

Bethany — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:00:58 +0000

Oooh…after we do that, can we just make it rain?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOK0HXS5a4w

By: Mr. City Planner

Mr. City Planner — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:45:35 +0000

Good idea, Bethany. Keep ‘em coming!

Here’s one. How about we build some new highways using tax money, then charge taxpayers to use the roads they paid for. But then let’s take that money and let it got to an outside, quasi-governmental third party that can spend it as it sees fit, rather than using the funds strictly for the repair of those highways or to fix the other roads in the city.

By: Bethany

Bethany — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:37:01 +0000

Or, I don’t know, cave to a vocal minority and ban smoking in bars, when it could be another source of revenue if they required businesses that want to continue to allow smoking purchase a permit, either at a fixed rate, or based on a percentage of sales.

By: Mr. City Planner

Mr. City Planner — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:30:52 +0000

A really good idea would be to change the name on streets that already have perfectly good names. That way companies that have perfectly fine letterhead printed up can have it reprinted, thus spurring the local economy, thus leading to higher sales tax collections. Also, it will make some of our leading cultural institutions now have addresses that will make them sound like they’re in the barrio. Smart move.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:42:35 +0000

I’m glad our mayor and city council have their priorities straight – that convention center hotel should be the absolute last idea they scrap as they “belt-tighten”.

By: Zac Crain

Zac Crain — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:42:11 +0000

@mm: Then mission accomplished.

By: mm

mm — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:01:08 +0000

“Faeries”? I guess technically it’s correct, but reminds me of Scarborough Faire.