Where's Gary? Where's Dave? Where's This All Headed?

First ward council member Gary Purnhagen (above right) is the chair of the Public Works Board, a group of people we are relying on to finally fix our dangerous and ugly sidewalks.  Gary did not attend the most recent meeting of the PWB, held this past Monday night.  The chair of the PWB didn't show up in person nor did he show up virtually.  (Was he in a body cast in the hospital?)  The person in charge of the meetings and the board missed a meeting that lasted all of 14 minutes.  Maybe if Gary had showed up it would have lasted all of 17 minutes.  (All joking aside, I hope Gary is okay, though I did see him driving his car on State Street earlier this week.)

HUDseen Was Wrong Again! It Was A VANDAL!

It appears that I rushed to yesterday's conclusion about the reason for missing five parking signs and brackets on Columbia Street.  A few hours after I posted that article, I spoke with a parking enforcer on his way to the 700 block of Columbia for the first time on his shift.  He told me that he had been informed that someone had VANDALIZED several of the signs on the south side of Columbia Street.