Mile Hi Nanny

clipped from www.jsharf.com By now, you've probably heard about the trial balloon Green Program that Mayor Hickenlooper has been spending his time on. Good to know that the next elections will run smoothly, the snow will be picked up efficiently, that traffic lights will be timed non-randomly, and that 8th Avenue between Speer and the viaduct won't need a 4WD vehicle to navigate. (The poor Prii that Mayor Hickenlooper wants to populate the streets of Denver with would be rattled apart on that stretch of road.) Ah, the Nanny State! So here are few suggestions that our elected officials should certainly be willing to go along with: There shall be no use of private jets for official travel when commercial service is available; this is a purely green idea. Reiumbursement for auto travel on official business for all city employees shall be based on the cost-per-mile of the highest-mileage car available on the market.

California dreamin' keeps infecting my state...