merrill (Anonymous) says…

Public bus transportation, bikes, trains and excellent sidewalks make it easier for communters and out of town travelers to get around.

KsTwister (Anonymous) says…

DUH ! Its the “real use” to “cost” ratio that is tearing the budget up. If they downsize to match the real need then how stupid is that?

blue73harley (Anonymous) says…

I sprayed six gallons of Round-Up in tribute to Merrill this weekend.

hawkperchedatriverfront (Anonymous) says…

maybe merrill's neighborhood would like to forgo a paid coordinator and use that money for infrastructure. Oread could have had a lot of sidewalk poured instead of squandering $54,000 to build 18 steps. An amount that would have poured at minimum two foundations for homes. merrill and the other target neighborhoods are whores for the city, the five target neighborhoods membershiip is too stupid to know that they are being used. Neighborhood groups should not be granting parking variances, should not be deciding what the architecture should look like, should not be determining what is blighted until their own properties are without blight, from LAN to Brook Creek, the neighborhoods are out of control with regard to property rights.

blue73harley (Anonymous) says…

Hmmmm….looks like someone is a little sensitive this morning.

Commenting on his own post and removing others.

monkeyhawk (Anonymous) says…

Ok, let's try this ………..

merrill reminds me of Steve Martin in “The Jerk” when the new phone book comes out.

Zat betta??

hawkperchedatriverfront (Anonymous) says…

merrill, could have sidewalks with neighborhood CDBG money instead, meriill and the five whores for the city allow margene to fund Drop In Shelter, remodel homes in Alvamar. maybe merrill would explain why a neighborhood group such as Oread has members who live around 23rd and Clinton parkway. explain how those “members' represent the Oread neigborhood and how why someone who lives at 19th and Alabama should dictate policy for an area they don't live in. Taxpayers yes, but how can they be in the neighborhood defined as such. merrill doesn't understand that the neighborhood groups have continued to allow the city to tak money from them, tax dolars merril speaks of, they city has used that money elsewhere and not in the very neighborhoods which allow the funds to be here in the first place. Why would merrill want an impact study to determine whether or not a Popeyes' chicken is needed at 19th and Haskell? you can bet, the Brook Creek neighborhood would be the first to complain about traffic from Popeyes.Maybe the time has come to not fret about amentities for older areas East of Kasold. Maybe the time has come to let the East side of Lawrence and that being east of Kasold to the eudora limits , let it rot away and let the fools liviing there allow their “neighborhoods” to continue to be whored by the city neighborhood dept and endorsed by the city commisioners year after year. Let margene continue to rip off the older areas just so she has a job, overpaid at that.

not_holroyd (Anonymous) says…

Wasn't graduation on the Hill wonderful yesterday? Beautiful weather. Flowers still in abundance.

And I love my neighbors and my area. Some would call it a neighborhood. I call them my friends. Deb and Bill and Rachel, and Frank, and little Wyatt, and little Sam. They remind me of what living should always be about. Friends and neighbors. I love my neighborhood. No hate speech on this block.

SettingTheRecordStraight (Anonymous) says…

Heckler calls for annual property tax increases of 4%. Why? Getting comfortable with the wacky notion that government can and should take more from us every year is dangerous - and that some people have come to accept it as inevitable or even good is depressing. Government needs less of our money - not more.

I'm calling for a property tax decrease of 4% every year until local government can prove itself a good steward of our tax dollars.

madmike (Anonymous) says…

Heckler works for the paper, huh? now I know why my Father-in-law calls this the “Urinal-World”.

snap_pop_no_crackle (Anonymous) says…

This was also posted on larryville. Some people just can't get enough attention.

gl0ck0wnr (Anonymous) says…

“madmike (Anonymous) says… Heckler works for the paper, huh? now I know why my Father-in-law calls this the “Urinal-World”.”

No, he mows lawns for a living. Seriously. He also sits on virtually every quasi-governmental “advisory board” in Lawrence.

KS (Anonymous) says…

Bowhunter —you gotta paraphrase your comment so the LJW won't bleep you. I really want to hear what you have to say. Generally speaking you are right on and no doubt on this one as well. Maybe the LJW just wanted edit a little free speech here. :)

hawkperchedatriverfront (Anonymous) says…

Oh the smell of diesel fuel and bulldozers is what makes a neighborhood really come alive. Removal of blight to make room for better housing for occupants that will appreciate the smell of fresh flowers and have consideration of neighbors. A neighborhood that comes to life and isn't being whored out by the city to benefit other non target neighborhoods. Billy jo bob, Buttons the cat, Greta the gerbil and not to forget the cookie momma on the block who use to make pies and we called her Pacem. Um, um yummy, those pies they were in the old days. Some neighborhoods are just stuck with block parties with blockheads planning them.

Pogo (Anonymous) says…

Richard Heckler is nothing more than an apologist for the once viable, but now broken neighborhood association process.

These “associations” have but a handful of members and yet over the past several years have been allowed to run rough shod over the very neighborhoods they reside in simply because they have the time to attend meetings. The “associations” are not regulated by the City in terms of being required to have even .05% membership of the identified neighborhood! In reality, the “association” could consist of two people (you read that correctly, 2…..heck it could be 1) and the City will recognize it as a valid “neighborhood association”. It's a joke that's no longer funny and needs addressing by the City Commission.

Heckler sits on one “decision making body” after another because he's being paid off for political patronage work supporting Highberger and Rundle and that other person. Heckler's myopia is only exceeded by his arrogance as to what havoc the so called neighborhood groups bring to our town.