Volume 2 Issue 69

May 9, 2003

Movin' Special

DC gives incentives for rising crime, the US tries to be nice to Afghanistan, and the big box expands...

Packing up the computer now, but here's a few articles to keep you happy until Monday....Web only of course :)

Idiots on Patrol: In what is just a mind boggling development, DC Mayor Anthony Williams has offered DC Police Chief Charles Ramsey a 17% increase and a 5 year contract. I guess he gets a % increase for each % the crime rate goes up...man, glad I'm moving to the suburbs -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32319-2003May8.html

Too Late: Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said today that the US would not forget Afghanistan as it moves on to Iraq, Syria, and whoever else is on the list this week. Yeah, Richard, bit too late for that, considering the administration already forgot to ask for money for rebuilding Afghanistan this year -
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-afghan-armitage.html

Twin Towers: Was the World Trade Center never properly tested for fire?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/nyregion/08TOWE.html

A start, but not far enough: A NJ State Assembly committee passed a bill that would call a Constitutional Convention to rework the property tax system. A good development, but what NJ really needs is a convention that reworks the entire state constitution, stopping the proliferation of too much local government -
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/states/new_jer sey/5820573.htm

Here comes the big box: So you can't eat in the Metro, but soon you'll be able to buy milk, rent a DVD, or anything else that you can do at the Big Box. For those of you not from DC, the Big Box is an experimental vending machine that McDonald's has in a neighborhood here...basically, it's an entire convenience store in a vending machine -
http://washtimes.com/metro/20030507-335877.htm

Have a great weekend!