06.18.2008 | 9:51 pm | General Life, Local Government, North Reading
So the Selectman decide to increase the trash fee by $46 per year or a little over 25%. Yet they will limit the number of trash bags that a household can put out. Why is it with the government policies that we pay more yet we get less? Personally it is not a lot of money but it that really the point. For some, it may matter but on principle I would love occasionally to hear - “We found an opportunity for efficiency so we will be decreasing your fees.” Do we every hear that at all? And to be fair, this is not a North Reading specific issue but a government issue and mentality. Always ask for more but never over delivery until there is tremendous pressure to do so.
It would be great if our local governments was like technology. Dropping prices but better performance. Not a perfect analogy but one can dream!
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03.1.2008 | 10:10 pm | General Life
Google has introduced a cool new feature for Google News. You can now target just the local news for example this link will give your just the news for North Reading. Here is snippet of what Google is providing:
Today we’re releasing a new feature to find your local news by simply typing in a city name or zip code. While we’re not the first news site to aggregate local news, we’re doing it a bit differently — we’re able to create a local section for any city, state or country in the world and include thousands of sources. We’re not simply looking at the byline or the source, but instead we analyze every word in every story to understand what location the news is about and where the source is located.
Go give it a try. I use it daily now to see what is going on around the area.
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