Archive for February, 2007

Who is that lady in the beginning of the video? I love her. Why doesn’t she run for city council?

I don’t think any of the candidates support a real smoking ban. They all want to exempt the places where there’s the most smoke and the most people who are likely to be harmed. I think Shawn Hurley actually asked them not to pass any ban at all, because all the exemptions made […]

The thing about Michael Powers is that he reminds me of that saying, “64.8% of statistics are made up on the spot.” On the matter of Water Street place, for example, he told the Herald:
As far as the specific incentive package is concerned, it spurred a $66 million private investment and a positive net […]

Old post offices are often among the most beautiful buildings in a town, and thankfully many towns have preserved theirs, even though the U.S. Postal Service has long moved out of (most of) them. Elgin unfortunately is not one of those towns.
It was a lovely building. Had it survived, I think […]