Sirens should be used, but not to create a ‘cry wolf’ syndrome; for severe storms yes. Some will be confused no matter what is done.

To me they are mostly about revenue enhancement. I’d like to see a more detailed accounting of how this revenue is spent. Any alledged safety inprovements are much more likely due to a couple of less intense winters and better surface treatment on the “S” curves; this better treatment is likely meant to accomodate justification [...]

Comment below was meant as a ‘reply’ , my bad.

You are such a cut up, Sue! Who on earth is Mr. Hathaway??

Consider getting past mindless bashing of Obama and take a moment to explain who the other of the “both men” you refer to is. Please, I’d like to know. And… Underlings, really? Underlings??? PLEASE bring me up to speed on all this!

I think that a good start has been made and, at the moment anyway, most aspects of the American situation are on a positive trajectory. Eight more years of reasoned government with proper goals after Obama leaves will likely be needed.

Now that’s some serious spin!!

“Hubris: The inside story of spin, scandal, and the selling of the Iraq War.”

by Michael Isikoff and David Corn

Enjoy.

In my 60+ years he is only one of a line of crafty, disingenuous, scheming and inept Republican Presidents. “W” just happens to be, by far, the worst of this bad bunch. His very election was tainted in the extreme, and he’s thus the only two term President I’ve seen that was elected once. Bush, [...]

I don’t care what color the bloody locker room is. The issue is assumption of opinions as fact and attempting to dictate some arbitrary correctness. I’ll try once more… pink is a color and any silly homophobic connotation is only perpetuated by shrill acknowledgement of that silliness. Moving on now. Nothing here folks!

Only persons unable to understand “punitive” could come up with wing nut stuff like this. Remedial fourth grade civics is in order here… if these people can learn anything at all.

And you question why this is an issue for ME! Really…?

“…perpetually aggrieved”

Nice characterization Bill, succinct and accurate. Thanks for the chuckle.

Regarding your 1st. para. let’s not confuse opinion with fact; these are your opinions. Given that you spell Coach Fry’s name wrong I’m given an impression of glibness and suspect opinion without much feel for the subject. Regarding the 2nd para. I’m sure you’d see re-painting as “sensible” , after all, melding everyone’s views with [...]

This is some of the silliest tripe to come from the PC obsessed crowd in quite awhile. The idea was that the hue has a calming pacifying effect which, I suppose, comes from some psychological assessments. As calmness and pacification are hardly helpful to an American football team about to play a game Coach Fry [...]

Yes this is a clear necessity, vital even. the current minimum wage serves to only enable our corporate welfare state by subsidizing starvation wages with govt. support for the working poor. This in turn gives the cackling righties artificial ammunition to cry about the ‘welfare state’ while conveniently misidentifying the real welfare recipients. The MW [...]

Given the needless ‘controversies’ involved and the pace at which public projects progress these days they could save these headlines and reuse them in 20 or so years. So glad to have left CR/Linn County!

An outstanding idea Rich. Sadly our justice/ordinance system is unlikely to be up to enacting/administering such a common sense proposal. Then again… one of the first required to clean goose droppings would get a case of the sniffles two weeks later find some mouth breathing money grubbing lawyer and promptly bring suit for having been [...]

Numerous places in the city have reached the point where the geese have become vermin. Manhattan park and the city golf courses are nearly unusable due to the smelly unsanitary mess they leave. For years people have been urged to not feed them and that has fallen on deaf ears. So, yes fines should be [...]

This is a moot question, and efforts to ban drones in Iowa City reminds me of their declaration of the place being a “Nuclear Free Zone” as was done some years ago. Any city declaration would be superseded by State law if they chose to do so, and any State law would meet the same [...]

Big time college sports in the ‘revenue’ sports is the modern day equivalent of slavery. And the masters are doing very well for themselves.

Some sympathy might be mustered for these legislators if it can be shown that this is the only activity of its type that promotes some “agenda” (a slippery use of the term in this context). Allegations of teaching “dangerous behavior” and using “evil propaganda on children” along with piously waving their bibles about vividly show [...]