Well it’s Thursday again and that means we’re going to rant a little
bit. Our zoo is still in the news, and we still think it’s a keeper.
We don’t know if our learned mayor has a fear of llamas or not, but he
seems dead set against doing anything to save our zoo. Don’t forget the
meeting at Fejervary park, the Wiese building, 1757 W. 12th. St.,
at 6 pm tonight. We now return you to our regularly scheduled rants.
What’s with all these cranes falling off tall buildings? Is it the
riggers fault? Maybe a structural defect? If we continue to build
high rise buildings, are the inspectors going to get tougher? We haven’t
heard of a crane accident in years, now two in a row.
Pachino Hill caught a lucky break from a bleeding heart judge on our
side of the creek, but it seems like Rock Island doesn’t feel the
same. His lawyer seems to think he’s being picked on and his police
record exagerated. We just know he sure seems to be in the news a lot.
There was a letter to the editor in the QC Times today that stated the
Bix at 6 training runs are a minor incoveniece to us who live south of
Kirkwood. We can’t speak for the rest of the residents in this part of
SoLo, but that is not the case. Our major beef is that if it starts at 6
pm, give us a chance to get home from work before you start running.
More than once we’ve been stopped by Police at 5:30 trying to cross. Our
minor inconvenience means a 12 mile detour round trip. With todays gas
prices, and people worried about the environment, that’s not minor. We
feel that since you visit our neighborhood, you should display some
common sense also.
There’s a couple of our pet peeves, your comments are welcome.
March 27, 2008 at 1:12 pm
With the millions about to be spent on Leclaire Park, the city better be budgeting for the park to be staffed 24/7, or the bangers will have everything spraypainted. Now that Keith is gone, Maryellen is going to get her million dollar restroom next to the skatepark. That will be the kids first target – it is just loaded with plate glass.
March 27, 2008 at 1:28 pm
anonymous,
It’s been voted on and passed so there’s not much we can do about it. We just can’t figure out how the city is going to develop it when it will probably be under water soon.
March 27, 2008 at 3:16 pm
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March 30, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Here`s how out of tune some of the new Aldermen are: During the last council meeting on Wednesday, 8th Ward Alderman Madsen was telling about taking some kids down to the new bridge to nowhere and letting them lay on the floor and look at the lights. The newly sworn in Alderman must have missed the articles in the times and on every blog about what the homeless people do to that floor. Bet he had to ride home with the car window open.