Mailbox was fixed
Thank you for fixing the mailbox. After finding out who to contact from the Merrifield Marathons group, the mail box was fixed. Thank you to Don Bammann and the fellow from the custom built furniture store.
Making students feel like failures
Someone please help me understand the common sense in an educational system that will waste the time of over 400 students so they can all be tested for the gifted program. Thus far, less than 30 students per class qualify and you may gain, what? Five? This is another way to make students who most need class time lose out. Not only that, but it is another chance for this district to make those students feel like failures.
Live with your guilty conscience
Now we hear how bad the drug fluoride is for us. Hopefully we will not have to have forced fluoride anymore. This should never have happened to anyone. Something forced and now finding out how bad it is for us. Some people should have a guilty conscience. Live with it.
The groomer
The groomer has not only knocked down mailboxes but it has also taken out some address signs which are kind of important if you do have a fire or emergency and they've been filling in every driveway end up and down County Road 3 and 19. Why do we snowblow our driveways so the groomer can fill it back in? Why are we even grooming ditches? That's got to be the height of stupidity.
Contributor was right on
Kudos to the Vox Pop contributor who commented on the roads and paying taxes. Those citizens who are opposed to any increases in taxes are going to have a lot to complain about in the upcoming months. That person was right on about what they said. Thank you.
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Add commentYup, just what our kids
Yup, just what our kids need--more testing!
The groomer
I would like to thank all the groomer drivers. It makes for a much more pleasant ride and really saves on the repair bills for the sleds.
plowing
This is not to complain on how the plowing is done in Brainerd, I understand that many factors come into play in the ability to get the job done. What I DO NOT understand is, is it necessary to do the snow clean up ( that has been there since the last snowfall) in the morning right by the High School? I am not sure why it cant be started at 9. There has got to be another area of Brd that needs attention until the traffic has cleared. That is just common sense to me. The city is the reason many kids are late for class, one never factors in a 20 minute wait for cleanup.
Flouride
How are you just now finding out flouride is bad for you? You have ever been taught not to swallow toothpaste? If you didnt know Flouride was bad for you until now, well you've been living in a cave.
taxes
Pay even more taxes and they may sand the roads????
Grooming
If you think the height of stupidity is grooming snowmoblie trails, then you just aren't looking.
The city is the reason many
The city is the reason many kids are late for class, one never factors in a 20 minute wait for cleanup.
Were all the buses late?
City streets
This year in particular has been quite bad driving on the city streets. Many snow storms have come just before or on weekends creating poor conditions for more than just a few days. We as taxpayers pay for the service of plowed roads and streets. If we are not receiving that service there should be more creative work hours implemented to have those drivers on the roads when they are needed.
Cutting the services to the taxpayers should be the last resort after all when services are not being performed what is it that we are paying for?
Plows
We should be thankful to our snow plowers? For what exactly? This city is a mess. You take your life into your hands at every intersection. Many streets haven't been plowed since the New Years snow beyond the one pass made down the middle. There are inches of slush everywhere that harden every night into ankle breaking, car wrecking ice grooves. Why aren't they out scraping this stuff off? Are we suppose to just live with this mess until spring? I lived and traveled many different places and Brainerd is by far the worst in this department.
city streets
the city has dropped the ball on plowing period. I can now honestly say that the snow pack on the road is higher than my curb. We are going to start having to step down to get onto my sidewalk, truly truly sad, City of Brainerd.
When it comes to the roads, you need to be more proactive like you are on fining people for not shoveling their sidewalks.
Demdare roads are public too you know.
Mr Nathan, dont you get it yet?
AHH my poor buddy Mr Nathanberg, I feel your pain too but when I read what you had to say, I said to myself, "that poor feller, he just don't get it!".
Let me set you straight, my friend.
THe problem is the Brainerd city council. They says they are civic minded conservatives, blah blah blah. Well it is now fairly proven that this so-called "council" (I call them a so-called council because of the ballot fraud accusations, such as where are all the missing crates of Tom Emmer ballots?) has now got such a spirit of liberalism flowing inside there veins that I thing you could almost be sure they are now a part of the democrat party!!!!!!!!
Look no further than this nonsense about building a "round of bout" or so-called "round o bout" up on College drive. This is a ridicoulous waste of time and taxpayer money has literaly been flushed down the toielet (by that I mean, the so-called "crapper" which is the perfect name for this hear kind of situation!).
The brainerd so- called "council" has spent from what i hear over $1000 on studying this so-called problem on college drive and countless more on other situations such as the ones having to do with sidewalks and so forth.
Imagine how much salt that kind of money couild buy. Or imagine lots of folks out of work who would gladly get there shovels out for minimum wage. what, is shovelling now somethign that only mexicans are allowed to do, what with Obummer and his molly cadlling of imigrant from mexico? Maybe the kids at pequot lakes schools could have a real education by coming out hear and shoveling some snow! They want taxpayer money for there bloated administratiors, let them come work for it!
so my friend, when it comes to roads you need look no further than gubmint waste and misplaced prioritees. Brainerd city council, libs from the democrat party in disguise!
DNTMG
While we are talking about floride
I hope in adittion to the floride question that some authourities will look at this whole toxic business of vaccines. my grand daughter needed shots and for goll d__rn sake's, i never saw so many shots, it's little leg was all black and blue afterward.
How come they let this happen when there is more and more science all the time saying we are giving our children autism in a needle? the same think for flouride, I say!
if we keep causing brain damage to our young through all these lib scams, that will only increase the chance that they all vote for the democrat party! I am not kidding about that. is that there strategy, to keep our kids dumb to make them vote democrat/lib?
DNTMG
City Streets
I wonder how we can contemplate spending millions of dollars on College Drive round-a-bouts when we can't even keep the ice and snow off as it is!