Use this space as a catch-all for commenting on the city budget hearings, to give good link for the new Open Books page (I am particularly interested in a few good databases), or whatever else is on your mind.
Forgot to tell you that Norway Farms is parking at G&L’s Auto Repair on Thursdays from 11-1:30. Milt does this every year because the asparagus always needs pickin’ from about a month before the DeKalb Farmers’ Market begins. G&L is on South Fourth across from the Lehan’s-Dollar General building.
Last Thursday I bought two 1-lb bunches for five bucks and sauteed about 3/4 lb of the slenderest tenderest with green peas and thyme. Today the rest goes into soup.
The Farmers’ Market starts June 3.
4 comments
Comment by J Salovesh on May 4, 2010 at 10:09 pm
Just for fun, I opened the 2010 adopted budget in one window, and the proposed 2011 budget in another. Started reading and scanning both, to discover, they are identical, up until page 15/214 in 2010, and 15/230 in 2011. In 2009, it is almost identical. If the PLANS ARE NOT WORKING? Why continue down the same path?
Comment by yinn on May 5, 2010 at 5:46 am
Yes, the strategic and operational goals have been the same for quite awhile without any regard as to their effectiveness. Where’s the ongoing evaluation? If they had to comment on what/how they did, right there where they list them, they would change. They’d probably also be fewer as they’d have to eliminate the ones that don’t get any attention — or is there actually (for example) a micro-loan program for small business?
Comment by yinn on May 5, 2010 at 6:09 am
New Mega-Dump article has been published at the Progressive Fox: http://www.progressivefox.com/?p=1533
Comment by yinn on May 5, 2010 at 6:22 am
Cinco de Mayo is NOT Mexican Independence Day (that’s September 16) and is not widely celebrated in Mexico.
This victory stopped an invasion into the Americas at a time when the U.S. couldn’t respond. I think observation of the holiday began as kind of an appreciation day, but is now a more general celebration of Mexican culture, just as St. Patrick’s Day celebrates Irish culture in a way that’s uniquely American.
Happy Cinco de Mayo!
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