TBW Daily Diary

Joel Turley spent the day beautifying the parking lot in the 200 block of Briggs Street (it needed it). Lelia, Tyler and Matt swept up around 701 Green Street in preparation for festivities there this weekend. (It really needed it.) . . . Sadly, our neighborhood isn't as clean as it used to be. I remember Mary, Merle and Jean Busey, and Ruth DeGroot (aged 98) out with their brooms attacking the sidewalks AND gutters almost daily. I don't do as much as I used to either; Bob does most of what gets done, though I do make an effort to corral the paper litter that people bless us with every day. . . I am also keen to raise the fines for cars that don't move for street cleaning; they always seem to be left right under the signs that say "No Parking Overnite." . . . Now who will be the first to point out that I don't have a car? . . . A rare political observation: that woman up for a Supreme Court judgeship is eminently qualified; the people asking her stupid questions aren't.