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Posted on October 2 at 1:08 p.m. (Suggest removal)
National ID cards NOW!!
Posted on September 26 at 12:39 a.m. (Suggest removal)
It depends on who you ask...
Older people can see the generational drift from what seemed to them to be a more polite society, a Rockwellian world where everyone left their doors and cars unlocked at night, a world replete with young men holding doors for little old ladies and 'Please,' and 'thank-you.'
To anyone over the age of 40, things have changed, and not for the better.
Some things haven't changed. What is now referred to as domestic violence used to be called wife-beating, and most of the time jokingly. Nowadays, these incidents get ink. Not so much before. Either way, police have been necessary. Some couples never should have been paired. You pay officers of the law to mediate these matters. Thanks again, alcohol.
When we stopped passing some sort of moral compass on to our progeny isn't clear to me. Maybe it began with the postwar boomers, the first generation that didn't have to struggle and work its collective rear end off, just to make ends meet.
There has never been a greater sense of collective entitlement. The world owes us security, the world owes us cops to mediate a neighborhood dispute that forty years ago would have been resolved ultimately with a handshake across a property line.
We have all but lost the way to behave in a civilized society, as though being a likely candidate for a taping of Springer was something to be proud of.
Learn to take responsibility for your actions, and empathy for those affected by same, and you'll need less police presence.
Word of honor.
Posted on August 21 at 1:40 p.m.
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Posted on June 5 at 12:04 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Paging the doc with a fax machine?
In this day and age of cell phones and pagers, that seems a little counter-intuitive, doesn't it?
Posted on March 30 at 12:55 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Outoftownlandlord,
Many of these people of a 'lower socio-economic class', as you put it, are built to stay that way. They spend most of their money on booze and drugs, have spotty employment histories and worse work ethics, and yes, they are the ones that freely trash whatever place they live at.
I was a waiter at a niteclub when I lived on Jefferson. Years of renting to trash and lack of maintenance has taken its toll on these properties. The 810 has the exact same paint job it did in 1987.
If more landlords would take the time to use resources like Rental Research, and check out tenants BEFORE they have a chance to trash yet another apartment, many of these messes could be avoided.
I laugh, now, because this is exactly when the masses sit back and let local government build a new jail nobody needed, and a new high school nobody needed. Your tax base is collapsing.
Posted on March 29 at 9:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Next thing we'll hear is that the Rainbow Meth Terrace should be left alone, too.
Posted on March 29 at 9:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I lived in the 810 Jefferson in 1987.
It was a dump back then.
If slumlords are being put on the hook, good on the A.L. Tribune.
Posted on December 28 at 7:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Albert Lea is full of mouth-breathing morons.
The commentary directed at Mr. Hoffman only makes the point.
Posted on December 18 at 8:16 p.m. (Suggest removal)
How is it that as soon as a conversation involving shady dealings in city government it doesn't take long for Paul Sparks' name to come up?
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Posted on October 22 at 12:47 p.m. (Suggest removal)
It's not about message, it's about representing your constituents. That means the people that elected you, not big corporations with lots of lobbying power.
One of the few Republicans to get this simple concept is Dr. Ron Paul, who, as a result, is marginalized by the GOP mainstream.
The rest of you promise X on the campaign trail, then cozy up with Y-corp the second you're elected. And the people are sick of it.
On Better message, better candidates, better results