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I have a noggin full of rants rattling around in my head and it’s time to dump ’em out. Lucky you! You’re the dumpees. The theme this week: Your Government In Action. Big, ugly pile More than a few readers have asked about that huge pile of dirt (which I’m affectionately deeming “Mount Tandy”) at 24th and Oak streets. The dirt is from a storm drain project completed several months ago. The city says it has nowhere else to put the dirt. Besides, the dirt may be needed when they remake that intersection. They don’t want to move it only to have to move it back again all at taxpayer expense. Understood, but the problem is, construction won’t likely start until 2011 at the earliest. So, ol’ Mount Tandy will be with us for a while. I had to wonder, could you or I get away with that? Not no, but HECK NO! According to code compliance rules, that much dirt can’t just be lumped any which way. It has to be engineered and...
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