City Hall's thinking must be that we can entertain the tourists by taking tours of tallow factories vacant stockyards. And those great industrial views from the Hank Aaron State Bike Trail will be the stuff post cards are made of. First we find that over a billion gallons of untreated sewage was dumped into area rivers because our plumbing couldn't take it. This just seven years after over 100 people died from bad water. Then the beaches are closed because the sewage operators whimsically dump untreated sewage again, even though it appears the plumbing jas recovered and is now working.
Phones are out, possibly for weeks, because of old worn out wiring.
And then we're faced with the prospect of not being able to afford gas to get out of town. At least the power still isn't going out. Nothing like a few outages to make one fire up the camels and start looking for an oasis. Angel Sanchez found out quickly that the Common Council's previous practice of giving the home alderman the benefit of the doubt regarding district matters has gone the way of John Kalwitz. Problem for Sanchez and bash planners, Steny's and several other area taverns, is the neighbors remembered those thrashfests all to well.