August 2010
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More, Briefly, On Speedbumps
Having just gotten my hands on them, I wanted to politely reply to two utterly insane Letters to the Editor sent to the Dominion Post regarding South Park’s new, and entirely irritating, speedbumps. Both letters came in response to one I had written, in which I rightly observed that people disturbed by traffic shouldn’t choose to live on heavily trafficked streets. The two letters...
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An Anonymous Letter From A Concerned Citizen
A few weeks ago, I expressed my utter disdain for South Park’s new, and entirely unnecessary, speedbumps, indicating that I’d be protesting those damned things by sounding my car’s horn everytime I had to drive over one. I did this for a few weeks. Last Thursday, I arrived home after work and grabbed my mail, which included goalie gloves for a local game I’ve been playing...
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Negativity Free Fridays: Mario's Fishbowl's Wings
I have been accused of being relentlessly negative about Morgantown, something which troubles me. Although I passionately dislike its utterly incompetent leadership, I don’t live in this city by accident. It is my home, and I love it here. So it is that I present Negativity Free Fridays. This weekly post will extol a virtue of this wonderful town of mine.
Because I don’t frequent the...
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Only 481 Calls?
I suppose that some in the city would call the fact that the Morgantown Police Department only received 481 phone calls over the weekend some sort of victory for the community. Here is the weekend’s good news, courtesy of the Daily Athenaeum:
MPD reported a total of eight arrests, 15 charges and received 481 calls this weekend.
Success! Supposing, anyway, that success is defined as the...
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Frustration in Wiles Hill
By all accounts, the situation in Wiles Hill is worsening. A resident there sent out letters over the weekend, part of which is excerpted below:
It is 1:17 a.m. and I feel like I live in Sunnyside. When did Wiles Hill become Sunnyside? When was it ever supposed to be possible to live in Wiles Hill and walk out back to your garage to find a guy peeing in the street beside of it? When was it ever...
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Who Plans Today?
Today is Move In Day, the day that West Virginia University’s student population returns to Morgantown. Today is also Friday, a day of the week, one of five in which the vast majority of the area’s population is headed to work. Someone somewhere decided that it was wise to schedule these two events so that they would overlap, thus ensuring that Morgantown essentially becomes a snarled,...
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Speedbumps in South Park
Upon returning from a pleasant vacation in Maine, I discovered that speedbumps had been installed between Wilson Ave. and Cobun Ave. There were three each on Park Street and Grand Street, and for the residents there, I suppose they’re a nice addition to the neighborhood. For the rest of us who have to drive through the neighborhood to our own homes? They’re huge irritations. I wrote a...
