Posted in Current Affairs, Iowa, Local News, Local Stuff, commentary, disabilities, environment, life, politics, tagged dubuque, green, Iowa, politics, public transportation on July 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The mayor is always spouting about how green our city is. There’s all sorts of little initiatives that they’ve done to make it green, and most seem to be construction related, or dealing with government buildings.
They neglect one of the biggest things that would make a city green.
Public transportation.
Because of school, I REALLY need to [...]
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Daffodil
Originally uploaded by Kibbles
After 9/11, a Dutch bulb company has been donating 500,000 bulbs a year to NYC. As of April 2007, the daffodil has been named the official flower of NYC.
For this reason I hated them.
It was similar to why people hate some lilies. It reminds them of death. I didn’t want [...]
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Road
Originally uploaded by Kibbles
Went fossil hunting, squid fossil hunting, in Graf, IA with my biology class from NICC. It was a BLAST. Took a bunch of pics from there. It was a tiny town, population 78, I think wikipedia said. I wish the weather had been a bit nicer, though.
On the [...]
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Posted in Iowa, commentary, tagged Iowa, weather on March 9, 2008 | No Comments »
One thing I like about living here in Dubuque is the changing of the seasons.
Brooklyn had FRICKIN HOT, then a week or so of cooling down, then BITTER COLD, and then a warmish week where you needed a light jacket, and then FRICKIN HOT again.
Today, I was happy and excited to see that the top [...]
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Posted in links, tagged Iowa on January 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
YouTube - Interstate 80 Iowa
This sums it up well, in a 50 second video about Iowa.
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Posted in Iowa, commentary, politics, tagged Iowa, politics on January 4, 2008 | No Comments »
If I could think of one word to describe the Democratic caucus process, that would be it. (It is different than the Republican one.) Standing with your neighbors, your community, discussing the issues and how to best obtain the goals you’ve set makes you feel like part of the process.
After living in NYC much of [...]
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Posted in Iowa, kids, photos, tagged dubuque, family, Iowa, snow on December 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Posted in Iowa, kids, photos, tagged dubuque, home, Iowa, winter on December 21, 2007 | 3 Comments »
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Originally uploaded by Kibbles
Icicles on my daughter’s balcony. (New photos up)
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My street is a busy two way street that pretty much runs from the Mississippi River to the West End District of town. Cuts across the city, east to west.
My son’s school bus broke down (before it picked him up) and blocked traffic. It had its lights on. It had an SUV with lights on [...]
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To be green, they’re going to have to change a few things. Despite all the mayor’s crowing about it, policies keep Dubuque from being as eco friendly as they like to make believe they are.
Let’s take, for example, the public school transportation system. Right now you must live in the zone for the school AND [...]
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