On Dad sentenced for picking up kids while drunk

Posted on November 6 at 3:49 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

happycamper: "Most of us"? Are you saying most people on these boards have been sentenced for picking up their kids while drunk? Or that most people are drunk drivers? In either case I would have to say you're delusional.

On Plastic bag ban for Janesville?

Posted on November 6 at 3:33 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

I'm not against having laws passed for my safety, health or environmental issues but when I read they want to "clean up Janesville" and then get more specific with "it'll save the city money and time", it just makes me suspicious.

And I hope they take a closer look at what they intend to replace it with.
It takes more than four times as much energy to manufacture a paper bag as it does to manufacture a plastic bag.
In 1999, 14 million trees were cut to produce the 10 billion paper grocery bags used by Americans that year alone.
Paper sacks generate 70% more air and 50 times more water pollutants than plastic bags.
It takes 91% less energy to recycle a pound of plastic than it takes to recycle a pound of paper. But recycling rates of either type of disposable bag are extremely low, with only 10 to 15% of paper bags and 1 to 3% of plastic bags being recycled, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Current research demonstrates that paper in today's landfills does not degrade or break down at a substantially faster rate than plastic does. In fact, nothing completely degrades in modern landfills because of the lack of water, light, oxygen and other important elements that are necessary for the degradation process to be completed. A paper bags takes up more space than a plastic bag in a landfill, but because paper is recycled at a higher rate, saving space in landfills is less of an issue.
source: reusablebags.com

On Who bears the greatest responsiblity for combatting gang activity in Janesville?

Posted on May 20 at 1:27 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

The question should be who SHOULD bear the greatest responsibility for combating gang activity.
The way it's asked now, yeah police, schools, everyone except the parents, get the burden and blame for it all.
It should never come down to others being responsible for your children's choices.

On Woman faces charges in animal neglect case

Posted on November 28 at 9:42 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

To those of you that knew her and are defending her based on that, either you didn't know her that well to have never been inside her house 2 years ago when this happened and therefore can't comment on the wellbeing of the animals or the upkeep of her house or you did see it and didn't do anything about it either.