Comments on: Health Department: Signs Don’t Reflect Badly on a Community’s Appearance?

By: Sw.

Sw. — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:48:38 +0000

Follow @5320polluters on Twitter to keep up to date with the 5320 tax scandal, and VI Marketing and Branding’s involvement.

By: Monex

Monex — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 02:54:10 +0000

I have been told twice in the past that the Mayor has told Municipal Law Enforcement Officer to leave developers signs alone. It was only after I posted on the Internet my complaints and that it was an election issue about illegal signs that the offending signs were finally removed – BUT City staff still did not respond to me. I had to call them how is that for service?What is even more interesting is that the developer who is threatening me with Peel police action is the same one who the City informs me had his illegal signs removed by the City and which would have cost them money.

By: Brian B.

Brian B. — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:02:02 +0000

Would it be money better spent if they took out a full page ad in the Daily Disappointment? The next day, it would be bird cage fodder.

And… Have you paid attention to Twitter? This stuff is popping up everywhere! Apparently, the $350K wasn’t all spent on yard signs.

Interesting.

By: Sarah G.

Sarah G. — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:18:28 +0000

I’m more concerned that there is even a need for these signs more than I am about my tax dollars being spent on them. I mean, if this is all about the poor health indicators of Oklahoman’s, shouldn’t we be more concerned about the amount of tax dollars we spend every single day on the health problems of our citizens? I’m sure this was some regulated federal grant money that had to spent and the state had no choice how to spend it. So who cares if there are some yard signs. It doesn’t make the city any trashier a fat guy throwing his cigarette out the window onto our streets.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:17:36 +0000

Also – this is for Tim (Evanston) – “the full attention of the city’s newspaper” would mean a story or storIES in the actual PAPER, the one tossed on your doorstep each morning.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:11:27 +0000

LOL. In one of Steve’s example links, in the body of this post, it mentions Microsoft being in some hot water in San Francisco for a sidewalk chalk campaign. The public officials in super-conservative and repressive San Francisco said they were going to demand Microsoft clean up after themselves, and if they didn’t do it, bill Bill (Gates) for city cleanup.

It also mentioned a similar case in NYC (that’s New York City, apparently another backward, conservative burg), where they arrested and held in jail a sidewalk “chalk artist” for doing a similar “guerrilla marketing” campaign.

Also, it should be noted that under Mr. Berney’s definition apparently San Francisco and NYC should no longer be thought of as “big league cities.”

On another note, can we please retire the use of “big league city?” It was great for a couple of months after the Thunder arrived, but the more we invoke the term, the less we actually look like one. Thanks in advance.

By: John R. "Radar" Doyle

John R. "Radar" Doyle — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:43:34 +0000

I saw the signs on May Ave. about 1130am today, and I went to pull them at 1230pm, but someone beat me to it. I have 5 signs that were placed in the median of Grand Blvd. between May and Drexel.

By: Tim Evanston

Tim Evanston — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:37:19 +0000

It’s hard to know what’s more outrageous. A gate on a sidewalk that is never used or temporary signs in a field.

But what I do know is that these are major problems facing our citizenry and they deserve the full attention of the city’s newspaper and undoubtedly people (government employees that is, so while technically “people” but clearly not human) should be fired.

Moreover, the state and city government should probably be dismantled because they are such an impediment to a satisfactory life (except the Mayor of course).