Siftings
Oct
04
Divides
Scale. The scale of the West is the enduring memory. Colin summarized east/central Wyoming thusly last year. “I looked out the window and then started watching a movie. When the movie ended, I looked out the window and couldn’t tell if we had moved.” The Jeep would have traveled at least 150...
Oct
02
Craig’s Friday Countdown - Places On The Way
59 hours in the car, and 22 places ranked worst to best along the way.
20. Gillette, WY. – Stopped for gas. A strip mining hellscape, with coal dust covering every horizontal surface, including the too scary to look at tattoos festooning the women folk. Could not leave the gas station...
Sep
30
Drive
Of course, it’s a Mustang. We’re out west where they run wild. 2,431 miles into the 4,426 total mile trip, and I’m being passed (it doesn’t happen often on the open road, so I tend to recall them). Some mistake was made at corporate and a sport package Focus made it into the Avis fleet. It’s...
Sep
28
ICMA Presentation
In Seattle, about to deliver a presentation on open government, community building and utilizing information technology. A pdf of this year's presentation "It's the 21st Century. Don't Be Yesterday's News" is available (here).
The handout from last year's show "Are You Ready For The Manager's...
Sep
27
Because It’s Not There
This version of the three bears has nothing to do with the temperature of porridge or comfort of furniture. It is not a children’s parable about the joys of breaking and entering. Rather, it begins with a discomforting story about figuring out whether the grunting beast fifty feet away from the...
Sep
16
10 Years Ago
Davenport Reported For Duty (click here)
Sep
11
This Just In
DavenportToday.com wins multiple awards in national public communications competition. Here's what the judge's said as DavenportToday.com won in the Digital Interactive - Overall Website category:
"Great use of colors that draw attention and guide the eye. Very well-written, transparent, and well...
Sep
09
Scuffed
Nothing makes a City Council meeting go slower than blood pooling in your shoe. Even an unhurried remembrance from the Fifth Ward doyen is a too-short delight in comparison to looking down to see if you are leaking on the floor. Curt Shilling took the Red Sox thing literally and made an extra...
Sep
06
Days of Labor
“I’m sorry, Mayor”, Library Director Lawanda Roudebush said, taking advantage of the open door policy. Mayor Gluba and I were in my office. We were on the cusp of a miracle solution that would rid Davenport of potholes forever, reduce property taxes and create nine new acres of riverfront park. ...
Aug
27
On The Way, Home
We startle each other. Rounding a trail bend just after dawn, the bighorn is surprised to see me. And I him. Aptly named, ovis canadensis is. Those are BIG horns. The goal was to hike to the top of Sunset Peak by sunrise. Sunset, at sunrise. I thought that would be a productive and humorous...
