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Jeff Ward
Charity Doesn't Begin in a Parking Lot
And sadly, leaving stuff on your front doorstep isn't any better.
While I’m pleased the City Council is addressing the proliferation of Randall Road parking lot donation boxes, methinks it’s just another chapter in their consistent effort to avoid addressing real issues. Word on the street is the Chronicle has FOIA'd the top Geneva city employee earnings (including overtime), and the results will make you long for the teachers’ salaries. And that doesn’t even include their benefits and pension packages which also put the educators to shame. Then there’s that brand spanking new $500,000 city computer system which miraculously doesn’t make as much as one staff position redundant, a sewer system that’s essentially been ignored for 25 years and a declining downtown. Let’s not forget that my home assessment …
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6:10 am on Friday, October 5, 2012
(My 4th comment) Gaia has also attracted media criticism for its questionable business practices as well as its alleged ties to the same Tvind Teachers Group. CBS5, San Francisco; 2006: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjmLvYhrstA Chicago Tribune, 2004: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2004-02-12/features/0402120028_1_gaia-bins-clothes (See also the 3 "related articles" in the box at the right … more ›