They better equip fire trucks and other emergency vehicles with cameras, because otherwise the self-important jerks will simply lie and claim they weren't even there that day.
Driving is a privilege, not a right. What needs to happen is that the privilege needs to be earned, not simply handed out like candy at Halloween.
Johnyoung - while I agree that Y-town needs to clean house and get the incompetents out, how would that bring down the price of building a new station? If they're saying the building will be bare-bones as it is, what else would you eliminate? The electric overhead door openers?
And 2fer1, who said they're "doing away with" the facilities at Ipe's Field?? In a previous story, they said they were looking forward to the kids playing at the playground coming over to look at the fire truck. They're building it ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PARKING LOT!! NOT tearing down the playground!!
I told you so!! You can't expect to save money by having two people do the work of 4 or 5. The bean counters like it because it looks good on paper, if you've never been outside your office and seen how the real world works.
Ianacek, there's not, and that's that. Try to stick with the subject here, huh?
If that main station was a privately owned building, it would have been condemned years ago. The township trustees, past and present, should all be ashamed.
"Despite poor attendance"???? When you keep it a secret, attendance isn't going to be all that much!
And we know the reason for the toll increases - Kasich's scheme to redistribute Turnpike money to his cronies and sycophants in central and southwest Ohio.
When you go with the lowest bidder, you get the lowest quality.
With that said, there needs to be enough oversight that we don't have a runaway gravy train, like the military with its $600 hammers. But the paving jobs need to go to the BEST workers, not the CHEAPEST.
Mahoning County, in particular, should be ashamed of the state in which they allow their roads to exist. Indianola Road, from South Avenue to Southern Blvd, hasn't been paved in about 20 years. On the "good" stretches, it's like being on a galloping horse, because they paved over the old cement slabs. On the stretches that have 10 or 15 years' worth of blacktop spilled in the general vicinity of the potholes (and there are a lot of those stretches) it's so rough that most people go left of center trying to find a smoother way through. And that's only one road - many of the county roads are in similar condition.
For the amount of taxes we pay, the roads are unacceptable.
Does anybody else see the humor in Hagan's "JOINT resolution" that would allow the cultivation and use of recreational marijuana? Was that pun intentional??
Now, I still fail to see why we need another substance that can be abused, especially while driving. I think all "medical marijuana" users should be registered in a database, and if they're at fault in any traffic accident, they should serve a mandatory sentence similar to those handed out to habitual drunks.
I think allowing people to grow their own dope plays well with the stoners, who can't put coherent thoughts together long enough to realize that the main selling point the pro-pot crowd has to offer is the increased tax revenue from the legal sale of recreational dope. If they're allowed to grow their own, where does the tax revenue come from?
No thanks - there are enough problems with people driving drunk and people texting/nattering while driving. We don't need to add another layer of impaired drivers to the mix.
Brownlee Woods shooting kills man, injures 76-year-old mother
We need to get the criminals and the insane off the streets - not guns. The inanimate object doesn't do anything without humans.
May 13, 2013 at 7:39 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Incompetent drivers beware
They better equip fire trucks and other emergency vehicles with cameras, because otherwise the self-important jerks will simply lie and claim they weren't even there that day.
Driving is a privilege, not a right. What needs to happen is that the privilege needs to be earned, not simply handed out like candy at Halloween.
May 11, 2013 at 9:38 a.m. permalink suggest removal
All 8 proposals for new Youngstown fire station will be tossed
Do either of you guys read???
Johnyoung - while I agree that Y-town needs to clean house and get the incompetents out, how would that bring down the price of building a new station? If they're saying the building will be bare-bones as it is, what else would you eliminate? The electric overhead door openers?
And 2fer1, who said they're "doing away with" the facilities at Ipe's Field?? In a previous story, they said they were looking forward to the kids playing at the playground coming over to look at the fire truck. They're building it ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PARKING LOT!! NOT tearing down the playground!!
Cripes!!
May 11, 2013 at 9:29 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Mahoning commissioners discuss CSB merger with JFS
Want an exercise in frustration and futility? Try to get the CSB to take action on something.
Both those government entities should be disbanded - they're a waste.
May 10, 2013 at 7:05 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Sanitarians shortage bolsters case for merger of health units
I told you so!! You can't expect to save money by having two people do the work of 4 or 5. The bean counters like it because it looks good on paper, if you've never been outside your office and seen how the real world works.
May 9, 2013 at 7:13 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Main Boardman fire station project hits snags
Ianacek, there's not, and that's that. Try to stick with the subject here, huh?
If that main station was a privately owned building, it would have been condemned years ago. The township trustees, past and present, should all be ashamed.
May 9, 2013 at 7:11 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Ohio Turnpike toll increases explained at public meeting in Boardman
"Despite poor attendance"???? When you keep it a secret, attendance isn't going to be all that much!
And we know the reason for the toll increases - Kasich's scheme to redistribute Turnpike money to his cronies and sycophants in central and southwest Ohio.
May 9, 2013 at 7:05 a.m. permalink suggest removal
No answer to terrible roads
When you go with the lowest bidder, you get the lowest quality.
With that said, there needs to be enough oversight that we don't have a runaway gravy train, like the military with its $600 hammers. But the paving jobs need to go to the BEST workers, not the CHEAPEST.
Mahoning County, in particular, should be ashamed of the state in which they allow their roads to exist. Indianola Road, from South Avenue to Southern Blvd, hasn't been paved in about 20 years. On the "good" stretches, it's like being on a galloping horse, because they paved over the old cement slabs. On the stretches that have 10 or 15 years' worth of blacktop spilled in the general vicinity of the potholes (and there are a lot of those stretches) it's so rough that most people go left of center trying to find a smoother way through. And that's only one road - many of the county roads are in similar condition.
For the amount of taxes we pay, the roads are unacceptable.
May 8, 2013 at 12:40 p.m. permalink suggest removal
JobsOhio’s ‘private’ status still generates controversy
More lies from the Kasich administration. Who's surprised?
Kudos to David Yost.
May 7, 2013 at 7:39 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Hagan’s medical marijuana proposal merits discussion
Does anybody else see the humor in Hagan's "JOINT resolution" that would allow the cultivation and use of recreational marijuana? Was that pun intentional??
Now, I still fail to see why we need another substance that can be abused, especially while driving. I think all "medical marijuana" users should be registered in a database, and if they're at fault in any traffic accident, they should serve a mandatory sentence similar to those handed out to habitual drunks.
I think allowing people to grow their own dope plays well with the stoners, who can't put coherent thoughts together long enough to realize that the main selling point the pro-pot crowd has to offer is the increased tax revenue from the legal sale of recreational dope. If they're allowed to grow their own, where does the tax revenue come from?
No thanks - there are enough problems with people driving drunk and people texting/nattering while driving. We don't need to add another layer of impaired drivers to the mix.
May 6, 2013 at 7:10 a.m. permalink suggest removal