In the late Seventeen Hundreds, a couple of Frenchmen got off the ground for the first time in a balloon filled with smoke. It has been known for thousands of years that hot air rises, and somehow that finally got translated into using rising smoke for a purpose.
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In a nutshell, the utility commission is still befuddled when it comes to understanding or controlling the financial expenditures of the city’s water and sewer utilities, and about the serious condition of the city’s water and sewer infrastructure.
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People are becoming more and more dependent on cell phones, and as coverage improves, many people are dumping the expense of owning and operating a landline home phone connected by hard wire….
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What if the Driehaus fountain looks ready to collapse. Yes, this rather large central feature of the park, in front of the Riviera Pier, is tilting like a Don Quixote windmill and it could go over at any time. What if that event occurred on a busy summer day?
Read MoreThe bright flower. The one bright spot within the utility commission, is Alderman Cindy Flower.
Ms. Flower seems to have a full understanding of the steps that need to be taken to transform the debacle the commission has become.
