JR: Proposed tt post mar 18 2016 - links to reference: Summarizing: Increasing the "temporary" income tax from 0.75 percent to 1.00 percent would have generated an additional $18.6 million each year. For 2016, Mayor Hicks-Hudson promised to devote $16.6 million of that $18.6 millio... more>> 2 min read
- Mar 18, 2016

JR: Tt post fri mar 18 2016 - in thread: Maybe Burris and his good friend EconCat88 held their coffee summit after all. This is some negative-ass stuff, spewed by Burris. I wish Burris would be less realistic and more phony-positive, even though that would mean sacrificing in... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 18, 2016 - #media #toledo #politics

JR: Tt post mar 17 2016 - "Speaking of updating plazas: the new owner of Parkway Plaza is wasting no time putting a new, updated facade on that complex." Back in the winter, Redemption City Church purchased a structure at Parkway Plaza. I think that the building used to be ... more>>
- Mar 17, 2016

JR: Tt post mar 16 2016 - I am surprised that issue 2 failed. From today's Blade story that contains the mayor's silly quote that justread alluded to: Mayor Hicks-Hudson was unsure why the majority of voters were against the tax. I dont know if they did not hear the messa... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 16, 2016

JR: March 2016 mainstream media article design layouts - #media #design #web
- Mar 12, 2016

JR: Tt post mar 12 2016 - Blade story that Mariner alluded to above: Mar 12, 2016 - Mayor names 7 as monitors of how Issue 2 money spent And we need about 150,000 people to monitor the monitors. Even if the issue 2 scam is defeated on Tuesday, then the city can play their ... more>> 3 min read
- Mar 12, 2016 - #toledo #politics #media #moronism

JR: Radical changes at the Dallas Morning News - march 2016 story #media #design
- Mar 11, 2016

JR: Tt post mar 11 2016 - This new income tax revenue stream will repair Toledo's streets. And the traffic enforcement cameras exist for safety reasons. The temporary illegal refuse fee tax will expire in 2008. If you recycle, then you will not have to pay the permanent il... more>>
- Mar 11, 2016 - #toledo #politics #humor #moronism

JR: Dw links to read in early march 2016 - #blogging #socialmedia
- Mar 10, 2016

JR: Tt post mar 10 2016 - "... Trump is downright scary." Trump is a combination of: Bobby "The Brain" Heenan The Honky Tonk Man "The Mouth of the South" Jimmy Hart Greg "The Hammer" Valentine "Classy" Freddie Blassie The bad-guys in pro wrestling were always more... more>>
- Mar 10, 2016 - #toledo #politics #humor #moronism

JR: Using other services to create a local media org - March 2016 - Video storage to allow videos to be embedded into blog posts: Vimeo YouTube Image storage to allow images to be embedded into blog posts: Flickr Video livestream: Facebook Live Twitter's Periscope Photo and short video storage and/or ... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 10, 2016 - #media #blogging #video #socialmedia #local

JR: Links to read wed, mar 9, 2016 - https://m.signalvnoise.com/is-group-chat-making-you-sweat-744659addf7d#.q19b2ppiz
- Mar 09, 2016

JR: Tt post mar 8 2016 - more about media website bloat - "I watched Spotlight last week. It won the award for best film, and detailed how the Boston Globe investigative team uncovered the pedophile priest scandal in the Boston archdiocese." And that reporting occurred or began in 2002. January 6, 2002 -... more>> 7 min read
- Mar 09, 2016 - #media #design #moronism

JR: Tt post about web page bloat - mar 7, 2016 - "BTW - some of the sites most laden with pop-up, banner, Flash, and stealth ads are newspaper sites. Even the New York Times and the Washington Post are so full of slow-loading commercial bloat that they are almost worthless to visit." Oh man, I cou... more>> 5 min read
- Mar 09, 2016 - #media #design #moronism

JR: Static Blog Site - Testing the concept When I started blogging in 2001, I used a web app called Greymatter. It managed a static setup, producing HTML files. But creating and updating content and managing the layout of the site were all done by using HTML textarea boxe... more>> 3 min read
- Mar 05, 2016 - #wren