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15 years ago @ GazetteOnline.com - City seeks fund for un... · 0 replies · +1 points

Probably the right time to be thinking about this. As opposed to after the road construction.

15 years ago @ GazetteOnline.com - Czech Village neighbor... · 6 replies · +5 points

And let's not forget the 1st St. Parkade. It is apparently more historically significant than Czech Village.

15 years ago @ GazetteOnline.com - Use of ICPD’s new ri... · 0 replies · +1 points

I don't think riot gear for IC police is a problem. I saw Cedar Rapids police come to a house down the street in riot gear and remove like 12 people from the home. I didn't think of it as overboard at the time. I believe Iowa City has the potential to have much more of a riot, especially since people may be upset about recent legislation, etc.

I did hear about some (as described to me) unnecessary tasering during the Iowa State game, though. I also witnessed IC police officers walking into people's back yards on Melrose Ave, house after house, checking on the parties. It gave me a bit of a twitch.

15 years ago @ GazetteOnline.com - Culver supports expand... · 0 replies · +5 points

I guess what I'm saying is that if there is a need for a smoke-free casino, the market will make it so. The government need not.

15 years ago @ GazetteOnline.com - Six things to do this ... · 0 replies · +2 points

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15 years ago @ GazetteOnline.com - Cedar Rapids flood rep... · 0 replies · +3 points

Your post made me think about something. I venture to guess that all of the multi-family apartment complex things that are going up downtown are replacing the affordable homes that were lost in the flood? If so, it seems to me that they are trying to increase the population density downtown, on the east side of the river. If they do that, it would definitely help reach their downtown economic development goals.

*shrug* A musing on the topic.

15 years ago @ GazetteOnline.com - Flood-affected busines... · 0 replies · +1 points

Good job, Corbett! The "duplication of benefits" thing always rubbed me the wrong way.

It always seemed to me that our most proactive businesses that came back quickly (out of their own pockets) are just as deserving of the aid money available as the businesses that waited.

15 years ago @ GazetteOnline.com - Culver supports expand... · 3 replies · +2 points

Not a smoker but smoking is legal. Since we have this wonderful gift of freedom, if I don't want to enter a smoky place, I don't have to. Same thing applies for employees of the establishment. They aren't being forced to work in a place that allows smoking.

All these arguments have been recycled time and time again, so they are almost futile. The important thing I see in all of this isn't even related to smoking. It's a philosophy that runs counter to the idea that we have free will and that we have this life with what we can do what we want. It also runs counter to the philosophy of not allowing legislation to dictate our every move.

I don't believe the TRUE problem here is that smoking is dangerous for the smoker (if that were the case alcohol would be illegal), I believe this legislation is targeted at the non-smoker that doesn't want to breath the smoke or smell like smoke. In that case, I say exercise your freedom and don't enter the building. If you want to legislate around an experience that a business provides you, you are whining.

15 years ago @ GazetteOnline.com - Cleaning up comments o... · 1 reply · -4 points

Ok... beyone what's right or not TwoCats and 2point, I believe you are being overly sensitive to this issue. You need not take things so personally. Even though you may believe you are, you are not 100% right and you could solve the problem by working on something inside of yourselves. Or you could complain loudly and make your issue everyone else's issue as well. See the danger in it?

I see you two as a similar danger to this online community as the users that your are speaking of.

15 years ago @ GazetteOnline.com - Cleaning up comments o... · 8 replies · -4 points

2point, truth hurts. We all hear that and it's true. I would much rather be exposed to utterly blatant, utterly painful truth than the alternative.

The way I see it, if you take offense to something that comes from another, you've either provoked it or it's completely absurd. If it's absurd, it shouldn't hurt you. If it is provoked... well... you're on your own...

A dose of truth, just so people can make up their own opinion about the comment you are speaking of. Here is the article with comments that 2point is referring to: http://gazetteonline.com/opinion/letters-to-the-e...

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