Thursday, November 27, 2014
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Citizens To Abolish Red Light Cameras
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A comprehensive list of referendum and initiative votes on the use of photo enforcement nationwide.
A total of 1,052,109 voters across eleven states have gone to the polls to cast a ballot in favor or against the use of photo enforcement. The vast majority have said "no" to red light cameras and speed cameras.
Since 1991, there have been a total of 35 election contests in Arizona, California, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas, Washington. With few exceptions, automated ticketing has failed by as much as 86 percent. One city did embrace the use of cameras after uniformed police officers were dispatched to go door-to-door to "encourage" citizens to keep the ticketing system in place.
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List of Public Votes Against Red Light Cameras and Speed Cameras
A comprehensive list of referendum and initiative votes on the use of photo enforcement nationwide.
A total of 1,052,109 voters across eleven states have gone to the polls to cast a ballot in favor or against the use of photo enforcement. The vast majority have said "no" to red light cameras and speed cameras.
Since 1991, there have been a total of 35 election contests in Arizona, California, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas, Washington. With few exceptions, automated ticketing has failed by as much as 86 percent. One city did embrace the use of cameras after uniformed police officers were dispatched to go door-to-door to "encourage" citizens to keep the ticketing system in place.
Read more online: Click here>>>
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
10 Inspirational Quotes Of Buddhist Wisdom From Ram Dass & Friends
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Monday, November 10, 2014
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Sunday, November 9, 2014
Herb Kent 25 years!
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Herb Kent's 25 Years on V103
Chicago radio legend Herb Kent turned 85 this year and also celebrated 25 years at V103 FM. In case most of you missed it, WVAZ-FM hosted its own 25th Anniversary Concert at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont last month, which featured Chaka Khan, Charlie Wilson, Bell Biv DeVoe, and Robin Thicke. V103 morning show host and syndicated radio/TV star Steve Harvey presented as well.
Herb
is known by a few nicknames, including The Cool Gent, The King of the
Dusties, and The Honorary Mayor of Bronzeville. Most of all he is known
for being one of the longest lasting and most important figures in
Chicago radio history. Over his career of nearly seven decades, he has
worked at such Chicago area stations as WVON-AM, WJJD-AM, WBEZ-FM,
WMAQ-AM, WGES-AM, WBEE-AM, WHFC-AM, WJOB-AM, WGRY-AM, and of course,
WVAZ-FM.
He has been honored by having a street named in his honor, Herb Kent Drive in the Bronzeville neighborhood. He was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1995. He holds a place in the Guinness Book of World Records
for being the longest serving radio DJ with his 69 year career, which
is still going strong. Even at 85 years old, Kent can still be heard
each weekend on V103. He also serves as a lecturer of communications at
Chicago State University.
In
October 1988, the then-owner of the station at 102.7 FM, Broadcast
Partners, changed the music on the station to an urban adult
contemporary format and had the call letters changed from WBMX-FM to
WVAZ-FM -- branded as "V103." Over the course of the last 25 years, the
station has continued to grow in popularity, despite going through
various owners during those years. It has steadily transitioned from a
quiet, niche station to Chicago's highest-rated radio powerhouse.
WVAZ-FM has held the #1 spot in the monthly ratings since the spring of
2012.
the green thing...
The "Green Thing"
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Checking
out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady
that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not
good for the environment. The woman apologized to the young girl and
explained, "We didn't
have this ‘green thing’ back in my earlier days." The young clerk
responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care
enough to save our environment for future generations."
The older lady said that she was right -- our generation didn't
have the "green thing" in its day. The older lady went on to explain:
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles
to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and
sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over.
So they really were recycled.
But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.
Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that we
reused for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage
bags was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school
books. This was to ensure that public
property (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced
by our scribbling. Then we were able to personalize our books on the
brown paper bags. But, too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back
then.
We walked up stairs because we didn't have an escalator in every
store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't
climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.
But she was right. We didn't
have the "green thing" in our day.
Back then we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the
throw away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling
machine burning up 220volts. Wind and solar power really did dry our
clothes back in our early days.
Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not
always brand-new clothing.
But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back
in our day. Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV
in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief
(remember them?), not a
screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen we blended and
stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do
everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail,
we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not
Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an
engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that
ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a
health club to run on treadmills that operate
on electricity.
But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then. We
drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a
plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing
pens with ink instead of buying
a new pen, and we replaced the razor blade in a razor instead of
throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we
didn't have the "green thing" back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their
bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour
taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a
whole house did before the “green
thing." We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of
sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized
gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in
space in order to find the nearest burger joint.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old
folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then?
Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart ass young person.
We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn’t take much
to piss us off... especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced
smartass, who can't make change without the cash register telling them
how much.
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
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