I despise losers who whine. This election was absolute repudiation of the past eight years of the this corrupt presidential administration and the Republican party that supported it. Read'em & weep (if you must). It's over. O'Dude is in charge and I'm glad of it. Carry on.
Weather is no factor on the festival. It's planned months in advance and goes on rain or shine. As the first poster noted, in 2006 it was 45 with pouring rain and you just had to make the best of it. Compare our leaf color today with that of a week ago: much more brilliance. Most years anymore this is the case. Kermit, where do you get your weather forecasts? Here's the latest forecast for this coming Saturday (for what it's worth): “Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 64. West wind between 5 and 15 mph.” Volunteering is out the window for me as my living takes me out of town for days/weeks at a time, but I'm still throwing out my opinion that the MLF is adrift in the horse latitudes and change is needed. Anybody out there agree or is the festival just “wonderful”?
MLF is fearfully stuck in a rut. Move it back a week and catch the fall colors at their fullest. This would also get the festival out from underneath the American Royal parade which draws in the best parade entrants in the region. 80% of MLF venders sell junk. How could this be upgraded? Try something, -anything to get this thing jumpstarted.
I have no idea what effect this will have on downtown, except that it cannot be negative. How could it get any worse? The place is DEAD after sundown. The Baldwin police, who just want to write traffic tickets and otherwise be left alone, probably will not like it. But, well, hey, they could deploy a foot-cop downtown and issue tickets for 'walking while drunk' and they would then be able to tell themselves that they're serving the public good. They could also better patrol for those pesky truants who soap the fountain -right under their noses…
This Stan Zaremba is just a graduate huckster from the Conoco/Phillips school of green hucksterism. He's selling gasoline made from imported oil. That's about the size of it.
If it was up to Junior, we'd still have gravel roads all over town like 30 years ago.
“If he runs out of something to do, we'll fire him,” said Walbridge. “He or she should be challenged to improve the department. Why did this council pursue a full-time fire fighter and now you don't want one? So, you don't want a full-time position unless it's for $40,000?”
Whoa, Gary, dude, great shot. Exactly.
“At some point, we're going to have to make this jump, but is this the time?” Brecheisen said. “I don't know. I don't know the answer.”
Memo to Junior: if you don't stay out in front of progress, like it or not, just like Tony Stewart it will bump your sorry ass out of the way and go right on by you. Always has. Always will.
7 November 2008
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Highstreet (Anonymous) says…
I despise losers who whine.
This election was absolute repudiation of the past eight years of the this corrupt presidential administration and the Republican party that supported it. Read'em & weep (if you must). It's over.
O'Dude is in charge and I'm glad of it.
Carry on.
23 October 2008
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Highstreet (Anonymous) says…
Weather is no factor on the festival. It's planned months in advance and goes on rain or shine. As the first poster noted, in 2006 it was 45 with pouring rain and you just had to make the best of it.
Compare our leaf color today with that of a week ago: much more brilliance. Most years anymore this is the case.
Kermit, where do you get your weather forecasts?
Here's the latest forecast for this coming Saturday (for what it's worth):
“Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 64. West wind between 5 and 15 mph.”
Volunteering is out the window for me as my living takes me out of town for days/weeks at a time, but I'm still throwing out my opinion that the MLF is adrift in the horse latitudes and change is needed. Anybody out there agree or is the festival just “wonderful”?
23 October 2008
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Highstreet (Anonymous) says…
MLF is fearfully stuck in a rut. Move it back a week and catch the fall colors at their fullest. This would also get the festival out from underneath the American Royal parade which draws in the best parade entrants in the region. 80% of MLF venders sell junk. How could this be upgraded?
Try something, -anything to get this thing jumpstarted.
17 October 2008
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Highstreet (Anonymous) says…
“We look forward to seeing our 30,000 closest friends once again.”
Quick, men, plaster the streets with 'no parking' signs!
17 October 2008
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Highstreet (Anonymous) says…
Hauling rump off to the Ozarks on a campout Friday afternoon, back Sunday evening.
Been there & done that. Enjoy!
6 October 2008
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Highstreet (Anonymous) says…
I don't think anybody who lives south of 56 (Ames) has much interest in this, nor anything to gain, save for higher taxes.
9 July 2008
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Highstreet (Anonymous) says…
I have no idea what effect this will have on downtown, except that it cannot be negative. How could it get any worse? The place is DEAD after sundown. The Baldwin police, who just want to write traffic tickets and otherwise be left alone, probably will not like it. But, well, hey, they could deploy a foot-cop downtown and issue tickets for 'walking while drunk' and they would then be able to tell themselves that they're serving the public good.
They could also better patrol for those pesky truants who soap the fountain -right under their noses…
6 July 2008
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Highstreet (Anonymous) says…
This Stan Zaremba is just a graduate huckster from the Conoco/Phillips school of green hucksterism. He's selling gasoline made from imported oil. That's about the size of it.
7 May 2008
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Highstreet (Anonymous) says…
I support this 100%. As Tecumseh Howard said when he left his entire estate to the cemetery in the 1970's: “Everyone I ever loved lies there.”
24 January 2008
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If it was up to Junior, we'd still have gravel roads all over town like 30 years ago.
“If he runs out of something to do, we'll fire him,” said Walbridge. “He or she should be challenged to improve the department. Why did this council pursue a full-time fire fighter and now you don't want one? So, you don't want a full-time position unless it's for $40,000?”
Whoa, Gary, dude, great shot. Exactly.
“At some point, we're going to have to make this jump, but is this the time?” Brecheisen said. “I don't know. I don't know the answer.”
Memo to Junior: if you don't stay out in front of progress, like it or not, just like Tony Stewart it will bump your sorry ass out of the way and go right on by you.
Always has. Always will.