What the hell are these blue things ?

[Rod Speed]

Looks like some sort of sewer vent system, but why so many of them ?

[trader_4]

They have been installed by the Trump administration. He plans to mount the heads of all the media there after he has the enemies of the people executed. Except, maybe, Fox.

[""Retired"]

Circle of Light, city "art" project

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"I mention all this because of the little dustup about the city of Wichita?s latest public art project ? the installation of a ?circle of light? at the strange intersection of Central, McLean and Meridian.

The circle will be formed by 14 neon towers stretching 32 feet into the air ? tall stuff by our standards. The towers will change color as often as every hour, programmed by computer.

City officials say the effect will be warm and wonderful. They say the circle will be a western gateway to downtown and the Riverside museum district .

The cost is $363,000 in city money, which briefly was your money and mine."

--Your Tax Dollars at Work-- ;-)

[Rod Speed]

latest public art project ? the installation of a ?circle of light? at the

[Ed Pawlowski]

I have mixed feelings on that sort of thing. The cost may be huge or trivial depending on the city budget. It is nice to have some fancy decorative stuff, but it should be a priority behind road repair. collapsing bridges, school supplies, and the like. A city like say, Flint Michigan should not spend the money but put it elsewhere.

[Clare Snyder]

Looks like some kind oif "art installation" at the entrance to Riverside Park (corner of Mclean and central)

[micky]

There are 4 and 2 of them on the corners behind us also, and one more on the median strip to our left! that makes 14 of them.

Isn't Kansas where our ICBMs are located. These must be silos for extra long missiles.

I think one of them was supposed to go in the middle of Mclean, but the wimps moved it to the median strip. Better drivers could have just avoided it.

[rbowman]

I frequently ran I5 in the '90s and remember these things popping up like mushrooms. Supposedly the the artists funded the $26 million project themselves.

Got to outdo the Big Indian.

[Andrew]

Fixing the deadly water supply should be number 1 priority, surely ?

[gfretwell]

There was nothing wrong with the water, It was the lead pipes that were the problem and there are cities all over the world with the same problem. That includes Washington DC, which might explain why they do so many stupid things there. In the case of Flint, they could have easily afforded to replace those pipes when the GM plant was there and they were rolling in cash but they did choose to spend the money somewhere else.

[gfretwell]

That is certainly the way it was spun but the fact was that the water in the Flint River was no more corrosive than Lake Huron. The problem was the Flint Water Department failed to add the chemical Detroit adds to stop the corrosion. The state had nothing to do with it.

[gfretwell]

Probably the same reason just about every old city in the US did the same, including DC. Nobody thought it was a problem as long as they were adding the anti corrosive. If you have been paying any attention at all, you now see lots of cities are discovering the same problem

[Tekkie®]

Ed Pawlowski posted for all of us...

+50 and growing as my blood pressure goes up and my wallet deflates.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Well that is the logic of socialsim of course.

Not one penny spent on a church whilst one man remains poor.

And yet it was the socially funded parsons and gemtlemen of provate means who had the time to count worms and take weather readings and ponder life's mysteries that in te end did more to alleviate poverty than taking their livelihoods away ever would.

[Clare Snyder]

and lindzen (in your sig)'s iris theory has pretty much proven to be a "crock"