{"id":459,"date":"2007-06-18T18:20:29","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T01:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=459"},"modified":"2008-04-07T02:03:10","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T02:03:10","slug":"potholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"potholes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learned of a handwritten sign taped to the back of a vehicle window this week.  It read <em>I&#8217;m not drunk, I&#8217;m avoiding potholes<\/em>.  Ignoring the few sink holes that have popped up around the city and the mass of potholes has become a full time non-contact sport for drivers in Edmonton of late.  It has me wondering just why I&#8217;m paying (increasingly huge) taxes to the city.  I pay to have my garbage removed.  A plow never made it&#8217;s way down my street or alley in winter &#8211; the hubby and the neighbours cleared those out with snowplows so people could get to work &#8211; and the roads are a mess. The housing crisis has resulted in the appearance of tent cities and there appear to be few new low income housing and shelter spaces being developed.<\/p>\n<p>So what is the city doing with it&#8217;s tax dollars?  Well, the mayor and councilors got a nice 13% raise and we&#8217;re about to have a brand spanking new art gallery.  There&#8217;s also talk of a new hockey rink for the Oilers.  Somehow none of these items is on my city improvement wish list.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a civic election taking place in October and no one is running against the encumbent mayor as of yet.  There&#8217;s no way this mayor or council should be re-elected, but unless someone else throws their hat into the ring soon, I predict another four years of shoddy city management, poor infrastructure maintenance, and increasing taxes with little or no return.<\/p>\n<p>I love my city, but this is getting to be ridiculous!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"technoratitag\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/Edmonton\" rel=\"tag\">Edmonton<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/taxes\" rel=\"tag\">taxes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/potholes\" rel=\"tag\">potholes<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned of a handwritten sign taped to the back of a vehicle window this week. It read I&#8217;m not drunk, I&#8217;m avoiding potholes. Ignoring the few sink holes that have popped up around the city and the mass of potholes has become a full time non-contact sport for drivers in Edmonton of late. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}