Eli has a made a cute joke this morning. In case you missed the context, at the end of the day yesterday, the City announced that it was suing six contractors it found to have kept insufficient records of a little more than $200,000.00 paid to them through NOAH. (If you need more NOAH context at thi...

Beneath the water that cascades over it, Orlando's iconic Lake Eola fountain is hiding a secret. The fountain that adorns city street signs and tourist postcards is so old and worn out, it hardly works. City officials say it needs......

The entire city council loses it and cannot conduct business when some kid uses a fart machine. There’s no indication of what city it is, but they moved to recess in order to regain composure. Link...

Here’s the 117 page pdf that Mike Barber doesn’t seem to have read: Pursuant to G.S. 143-215.1(c5), 143-215.8B, and 143B-282(c) and (d) of the Clean Water Responsibility Act of 1997, G.S. 143-215.1(c5), the Environmental Management Commission hereby establishes the initial goal of reduci...

Despite the partying in the street, the Simkins PAC maintains its control of Greensboro politics. Perkins knows it. Methany and Anderson Groat are about to find out. Scooter Sanders and Tom Fox are getting their pay restored and have returned to duty. Mitch Johnson is demoted, but still employed. Re...

BOBBLE TIKI: BREAKFAST WITH BOBBLE TIKI >>> A Gig Harbor neurosurgeon who treated the teenage kayaker critically injured Sunday puts a twist on Steve Martin’s Famous song: “Oh, I'm picking out a thermos, for you / Not an ordinary thermos, for you.� The doctor substituted “picking�...

BOBBLE TIKI: BREAKFAST WITH BOBBLE TIKI >>> Snow. Tacoma City Council didn't know folks from White Center can now handle their classified operations. Meanwhile, the winners and losers of the Obama budget. What's wack? The fact that G.M. may need more money. GM loses $9.6 billion … which i...

Dallas Morning News' reporter, Roy Appleton published an update story on the Plaza Inn in today's edition. Read it here. As the story reveals, Central Dallas Ministries stepped out of the project in face of neighborhood opposition. Hopefully, Hamilton Properties Corporation will be able to carry for...

I really like The Rainbow — a pub always slightly further up Digbeth High Street than you think it is. I like it when there are bands I like on, I also like it when it’s quiet. It’s quiet in the day a lot, which musn’t make much dosh and it really makes all its money from being w...

After at least 20 emails back and forth between myself and several people at City Hall, I have finally received an acceptable response to my email to the Council. I’m not 100% sure that the information I’m about to give you is correct; some of the 20 emails that went back and forth had contradic...