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Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right
RECEIVED Wed., June 26, 2019
Dear Editor,
You can't fix STUPID.
So, Bozo the mayor and his gaggle of (CLOWN)cil members came up with a WONDERFUL idea. Let's spend a lot of taxpayer money to buy a building for $8 million and $2 million a year to maintain it. For a whole WHOPPING 100 beds. WTF. Hey Stevie, why not house the poor homeless at CITY HALL or that overpriced LIBRARY next door; I doubt those buildings are occupied 24/7. Or is that too CLOSE to your million-dollar condo. Or would you say NIMBY? I didn't think the CoA could have a sorrier mayor than Kirk Watson, but Stevie, you take the CAKE. You and your crew just LOVE to spend, spend, spend. It's just TAXPAYER money. Can't wait till all of y'all's time is up on the DAIS. Like I said, “YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID!!”
You can't fix STUPID.
So, Bozo the mayor and his gaggle of (CLOWN)cil members came up with a WONDERFUL idea. Let's spend a lot of taxpayer money to buy a building for $8 million and $2 million a year to maintain it. For a whole WHOPPING 100 beds. WTF. Hey Stevie, why not house the poor homeless at CITY HALL or that overpriced LIBRARY next door; I doubt those buildings are occupied 24/7. Or is that too CLOSE to your million-dollar condo. Or would you say NIMBY? I didn't think the CoA could have a sorrier mayor than Kirk Watson, but Stevie, you take the CAKE. You and your crew just LOVE to spend, spend, spend. It's just TAXPAYER money. Can't wait till all of y'all's time is up on the DAIS. Like I said, “YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID!!”
J.J. Maldonado
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A Currently Unpalatable Social Arrangement
RECEIVED Mon., June 24, 2019
Dear Editor,
I enjoyed the fine I-35 article by Mike Clark-Madison ["Long Hard Road," News, June 21]. All of these enormous and often grandiose traffic engineering projects seem to be conceived and discussed as though our entire society were in the fell clutch of an inevitable traffic increase of the nature of Moore's Law. It is worth thinking about where all those folks are going. For example, to work in drugstores on diagonal corners; auto parts stores next door to one another; indistinguishable bank branches three to a block. In short, places where people, out of an imposed economic necessity, do work made meaningless by its redundancy. Of course actually decreasing traffic would require a currently unpalatable social arrangement … and none dare speak its name. Better to spend the billions.
I enjoyed the fine I-35 article by Mike Clark-Madison ["Long Hard Road," News, June 21]. All of these enormous and often grandiose traffic engineering projects seem to be conceived and discussed as though our entire society were in the fell clutch of an inevitable traffic increase of the nature of Moore's Law. It is worth thinking about where all those folks are going. For example, to work in drugstores on diagonal corners; auto parts stores next door to one another; indistinguishable bank branches three to a block. In short, places where people, out of an imposed economic necessity, do work made meaningless by its redundancy. Of course actually decreasing traffic would require a currently unpalatable social arrangement … and none dare speak its name. Better to spend the billions.
Henry Mecredy
