Halloween: By the numbers

Congratulations! This year, the State St. Halloween celebration seems to have ended successfully! "Riots" at 1:43 am didn't need to end in...

Game Halloween: 68 to 0

That's right, in this game the "excited" police are at 68, civil liberties at Zero.I wonder how that compares to downtown arrests on a...

A reason to be afraid this Halloween weekend?

Reading the WSJ is always a scary experience, but this morning, it was particularly scary . . . Mostly, I was surprised by this...

I didn’t see that in the Halloween Budget!

Plasma screen tvs for the police department?Where was that in the budget?Watching channel 3 this morning I learned that the police department has a...

Loitering

Yet another issue where I can just recycle my folders full of paper. When this issue came back I was a little...

A dailypage comment: Is this news?

I had a somewhat odd experience with thedailypage.com forum, channel 27, Mike Hanson, the democratic party, the Mitch Henck show and the Vicky McKenna...

What Does the Police Department Need?

Every budget, we have a discussion about how many police to add . . . and recently, mayoral candidate Ray Allen called for 6...

Crime: Is it up? Or down?

Answer is: It depends upon what you look at.Here are some interesting numbers I ran across about the last year . . ....

Scratchiti has it all . . . .

Rarely, have I seen:a) such a colossal brazen attempt to get media attentionb) over a "feel-good",c) "solution-in-search-of-a-problem" ordinanced) that has "unintended consequences",e) has "no...