In all seriousness, shovel your sidewalk or you will get a big bill and absolutely no sympathy from me.
Posts Tagged ‘humor’
Proposed penalty for failing to shovel your sidewalks
Tags: humor, public works
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Junk Mail
Oh I love getting emails like this. I guess I will be retiring… Are there really people that fall for this? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: humor
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The Population of Rochester is 183 Million.
Fact Check: Did Throndson Oil’s property taxes go up 1400+% and then another 300%?
OK, so file this under 100 day old news that doesn’t matter.
It’s not just that this is wrong, but rather that it is so absurd that I can’t understand what he was thinking or how he got away with it. After fact checking this, I remain disappointed that it was never fact checked by the reporter covering the event even after I suggested he check that fact. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Accountability, Fact Check, humor, Local Government, Taxes
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“Never get into a dispute with someone that buys ink by the barrel…”
Here is Jay Furst’s editorial commentary on my assessment of Terry Throndson’s statements. I made my comments back in mid October, you can read them here. I requested that the Post Bulletin reporter (who was covering the event) fact check this on October 13th (or very close to that date). To the best of my knowledge that never happened.
Edit: I was reminded once again that my sarcasm does not always read well. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Accountability, humor, Local Government, School Board
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Please be careful when removing snow from you roof…
Snow Removal Fail…
Tags: humor
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About that Olmsted County Emergency Operations Center…
Here is what the County EOC folks have been up to. Suddenly, I am once again very happy that the city has hired EOC professionals…
Tags: humor, public safety
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Here is my chat session with Charter Communications
Towards the end, I tried to leave no confusion as to whether they would be getting me signed up for TV or other services… Note that my land line is being eliminated. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: broadband, humor
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Bob Nowicki
What happens when Bob Nowicki doesn’t show up for coffee… I am going to miss Bob because many disagreements aside, I really like Bob. Most anyone that has met Bob feels the same way. Hopefully shortly we will be passing a much needed street tree ordinance and that is in large part due to Bob’s contributions. Bob is going to remain active with RNeighbors and neighborhoods and I plan on calling on him to help with mine.
In a related story, this was the first time that some of his coffee crew got a word in…
Tags: humor, Neighborhoods, Nowicki, Trees
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