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Board of Estimates Recap

40 minutes, I should get this one done! Yikes, I just have no time for blogging any more!

City Week Ahead

December! You'd never know it.

Occupy Update – Transportation?

After a week a Token Creek Park Campground - still no transportation, water, laundry, showers, etc. But hey, there's this! 5 PORTA-POTTIES TRANSPORTATION OFFER NOT...

The Rest of the City Week Ahead

Same excuse as why I didn't get the county week ahead done. Don't like, fire me. :)

The Rest of the County Week Ahead

Earlier this week, I suffered from some technical difficulties and writers block on yesterday's post. Hopefully, I'll get back on track now - maybe, but hey, this is what you get for free!
occupy

I’m Speechless

This is one of the hardest posts I ever had to write and to add insult to injury, I completed it and then lost a bunch of work. So I'm just now getting around to trying to post something about what happened last Tuesday. I still can't believe a government could just pick up and relocate a group of people to a remote location out of sight and out of mind and . . . oh, nevermind. The irony of this happening at Thanksgiving just gives me images of what we did to Native Americans early in our country's history . . . I thought we had learned from that, but I guess not.

Another Listening Session

Another listening session with neighbors of Lake View Hill tonight to discuss the occupation . . . lots of finger pointing and anger - but now that it is over, will people show up?

Volunteers Needed for Warming Shelter

Occupy has occupied every spare minute of my time, but we also need volunteers to help Sarah make the Warming Center a success and to build for a permanent day center. So, help out if you can!

Donations Needed for Warming Shelter

The warming shelter opens today, and there is a long list of items that they need. But . . . uh, only the things on this list.

Crazy Occupy Weekend Recap

I can't believe this all happened in 72 hours . . . this is really insane. I can't believe how out of control things have gotten and how absurd it all is. Here we go . . . you're not going to believe all this!

Occupy Responds to Parisi’s Offer

They are suggesting we should move to Token Creek Park Campground. Here is our response.

Occupy Still There . . . County Should Stop Bluffing and Communicate

It's all beginning to blur together, county threatens to kick us out or give us tickets, we rally troops, nothing happens. Lather. ...