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There is a new paper in town. Its been here for maybe a year. A right wing tabloid that looks for all the world so nice and small-towny and balanced. It isn't. It is pure right wing fish wrapper.
When it first started publishing, it found its way to our front lawn each morning, free of charge.
I called their circulation department and asked that they 'stop littering my lawn' with their rag.
No change.
Two weeks later I made another call.
They stopped dropping it on my lawn.
None of my neighbors subscribe to it and they finally gave up and stopped sending their delivery guy to our little street (7 houses).
Fast forward to about three weeks ago.
They start dropping it again. There are unopened, uncollected copies of it all over our court. We've taken turns putting them directly from the street to our weekly recycling.
Today I was about to call and use my 'littering' line again. But I had a second thought.
If this was handled right, maybe it really IS litter and maybe they're actually breaking the law.
So I heigh my ass off to the county office building and go to the Public Works office. A nice lady helped me. She told me they get lots of complaints and all they can do is call them and ask them to stop dropping the papers. So I ask her if anyone ever thought to look at this as littering and not a more indeterminant 'annoyance'. No, she said ..... no one had. I asked who might be able to say of this was breaking the law or not.
The County Executive, she says.
So I go up another floor and knock on the door. County Exec and his two sidekicks are out doing the people's bidniss someplace. So I leave my name and number.
I'm waiting for the call back. I know these guys. They're Democrats and they're young and ambitious. They'll call.
I am less confident about the outcome.
But who knows? :shrug:
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