Comments on: Mayor Hotline April 24 to 30

By: JIMV

JIMV — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:17:38 +0000

I live in a modest home in SE Boise…the trash can and recycling scheme replaced trash cans that could be stored with gigantic monstrosities. I have no intention of storing trash in my garage and no room to put the stupid thing that is less unsightly than the curb. In addition, my neighbors park on the curb if the can is not there and my trash can is a lot less unsightly than someone else’s gigantic F150 parked on my sidewalk (or yard). In short, the folk in power who came up with this scheme did so without really considering what their victims might want or need. We traded good service with small trashcans and trash bags fr poor service with the new scheme…

By: boisecynic

boisecynic — Sat, 08 May 2010 14:30:23 +0000

How hard is it to bring your garbage cans back into the side yard or garage or whatever? As I’ve said before, we have gay pride, hispanic pride, women’s pride, all kinds of pride except civic pride.

How about a civic pride day?

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 08 May 2010 03:35:35 +0000

Maybe the chap in denial about his dog barking should set up a voice recorder where rover hangs out when Mr. BS is out of the house. Dogs barking incessantly really do make you neighbors angry. And they tend to do it when you are gone from home. They’re bored, pissed off and want some attention. You can’t be there all the time so put a bark collar on Rover.

Be good neighbor and quit bellyaching about neighbors who would like a modicum of peace and quiet inside their home. Not everyone loves to hear your dog barking non-stop. Bark bag dogs give the good ones a bad name.

By: rukiddingme?

rukiddingme? — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:47:02 +0000

We are all hypocrites, even me. I want to tell people to stop complaining but I complain constantly. The real problem with humanity (in all its forms) is that we all need to be taught from birth 2 things. 1) unconditional love, and 2) how to think critically. I think that would solve the world’s problems.

There, that’s my solution to all of man’s problems.

By: bikeboy

bikeboy — Thu, 06 May 2010 15:52:54 +0000

Awesome Civil War reference, cyclops! THAT civil war was over slavery, the new one is over trash cans! Oh, the humanity!

Meanwhile the guy who’s spoze to be doing trashcan enforcement is pickin’ thru the flea market (on the taxpayer dime!) before his Blimpie lunch.

By: Clancy

Clancy — Thu, 06 May 2010 14:50:12 +0000

cyclops- thanks for the laugh.

I really like having alleys in the Northend to hide the trash.

By: Timm!

Timm! — Thu, 06 May 2010 14:30:31 +0000

Wow. I wish my life was so worry free that I had time to phone in the addresses of people who’ve left their trash cans on curb – the horror! Somebody get this clown a job in code enforcement so they have something to do with their day. I wonder if the noble citizen doing this great work is waiting the full 24 hours it takes for a house to be “in violation of city code” before calling the mayor and hassling them.

By: cyclops

cyclops — Thu, 06 May 2010 02:52:45 +0000

During the civil war we fought blue against grey. Now we are fighting BOTH the blue and the grey. Hats off to the city!! Your market research on trash can storage was incredible!!

By: Trash Response

Trash Response — Thu, 06 May 2010 02:22:50 +0000

Maybe there is no code problem with the trash? Some of the listed addresses have trash pickup on Tuesday according the city of Boise website. Depending on the time of the phone call which is on a Monday, folks may simply being putting out there trash for the next day in the evening in case the pick-up truck comes early in the morning.