Odds and ends, 4/14/07

The Huntington garbage truck shortage made the national AP wire today.

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Huntington should at least consider the possibility of privatizing its trash collection service. But it won't happen. Too many people owe votes to city worker unions.

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My wife caught part of a PBS kids' show this morning -- "Arthur." We talked about how overnight our kids went from "Pokemon" to "CSI."

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So Karl Rove has left the White House. I could have predicted that years ago. Very few of a president's closest advisors last the entire eight years of two consecutive terms, right? So the odds were against Rove's staying.

How much does this really affect my life? Probably not much, based on how crazy the national media are over this story.

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Other than that, not much excites me today. Must be the weather.

I hope to have something on the Pomeroy-Mason Bridge posted tomorrow. I've done a little checking, and there's something about it that I find amusing and frustrating, but it's something I can empathize with.