The Dark Side of Traffic Cameras

Dateline, Kansas City, Missouri.
There are sooo many tickets generated by the cameras that the police who need to review the videos clear only about 200 of the 600 tickets generated by the cameras each day.
http://www.kctv5.com/news/20571979/detail.html
All I can do is sit here and shake my head. If you send $50 out of your regional economy to the camera operator, then you are allowed to keep $50 for each ticket. If one person can clear 12 tickets per hour, then Kansas City can justify the expenditure of $625 a day to clear tickets. That's $156,250 per year!

Isn't safety worth AT LEAST that much? I don't know why Kansas City is obsessing about a few dollars in exchange for the safety of their citizens.

Inane comments and recycling

Sustainability. "It's the future of Cleveland," Mayor Frank Jackson declared in an interview Tuesday.
As opposed to our old and busted ways of poisoning the rivers and lakes, and importing the zebra mussel, I guess.
Or like allowing First Energy to dump a larger amount of mercury into Lake Erie through paper manipulation of how to measure the mercury discharge at their generating plant.

How about we start with a simple aluminum, glass and plastic recycling program?
OR
How about the state charge a 5-cent deposit on glass bottles and aluminum cans, and 10 cents on plastic bottles?

Really, why not start with something simple and obvious that can generate a few dollars also?