Comments on: City Council Update 12/10/2009

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:04:36 +0000

indeed. the mentality should be: find a problem; find a solution; now prove why the solution in worth doing.

not: find a talking point; spend money hyping it up; make a half assed solution that happens to involve your brother in-law’s company.

By: muke

muke — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:02:58 +0000

I saw via the NYtimes bike blog (or something like it) that NY is actually passing stricter laws on bikes to discourage them from riding on sidewalks, against traffic, spreading mayhem, and killing people. Yeah, some people were killed by bikes.

Also, hopefully the two-track tax will pass and work, but I’d expect a fairly organized and vociferous response. I’m no longer a stakeholder in Baltimore, but is there a person to call or a number we can add to the post?

Finally, while I’ll admit that’s quite the FULL plate there in the council, can we come up with 3-5 issues that are important and part of the council’s purview?

By: Evan

Evan — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:17:06 +0000

As far as I know, Whole Foods carries some kind of degradable resin type-bags that break down in the environment or whatever – problem solved. Not to mention the fact that single stream recycling now takes plastic bags, and most grocery stores have gigantic recycling boxes out front of them that are perpetually stuffed with the damn things. The market has officially solved this problem by itself, we don’t need anymore stupid effing laws put into place regarding PLASTIC BAGS DAMMIT!!!!

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:46:44 +0000

i’d much rather them spend all that money to come up with an alternative. we know plastic bags are bad, but what are you going to do? i swear if we could cut the spending on studies to tell us shit we already know, this country would be a lot better off.

By: kateebee

kateebee — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:35:18 +0000

just happened to watch this episode of the west wing last night…

“I believe that every time the federal government hands down a new law, it leaves for the rest of us a little less freedom. So I say, let’s just stick to the ones we absolutely need to have water come out of the faucet and our cars not stolen. That is my problem with passing a redundant law.”