I spoke with Ventura City Manager Rick Cole this afternoon and he wants to blog for The Ventura County Star. If everything goes right I expect his blog to be up in the next few weeks.
Who would you like to see blogging for The Star?
I want to see a group of police officers or firefighters providing insight into their duties. Are you reading this Mr. Hodge?
I created a Facebook fan page for my blog. Please become a fan. I will feature a preferred cause or candidate of my 100th fan on my front page.
We are getting lots of quality newcomings on the VC Blogs - way to go Rick!
With all these government folk bloging at the Star, who will represent the taxpayers,the over taxed, the homeless of ventura county, the silent undocumented?
I suppose they will write their blogs after work, out of their government offices and places of work?
Maybe Rick Cole can explain how a city with $168 million in investments, can be broke, and want to raise the sales tax to almost 10%
Tim Keaney should blog for the Star.. school boards hated that guy...
Tim,
You know I was a fan of your blog. Ever thought of blogging about your new school district?
Brian,
I don't think I could take the scrutiny of my grammar and spelling by you.
Blogging would be interesting and tough. Much of what we do is covered by HIPA now so we have to really be careful on what we can say. This would be my current thought parade.
1) Put large address numbers on your house and curb. It helps us get your house faster at three in the morning. If you have a major illness get them HUGE.
2) When you see lights and sirens move to the right. If your confused or frighened don't just stop in the middle. Our engine is huge and needs that space.
3) We don't do much if you have bees in your yard. Bees are a benificial species and we try not to disturb them. If you wait awhile they'll generally go away. Just keep your distance.
4) Snakes. See bees. But keep even more distance.
5) Drinking alcohol and drving Really can be fatal. Seems like our worst car accidents involve drinking. Ugly,ugly stuff.
5) Cats. Have you ever seen a cat skeleton in a tree?
Jason H.
It's not the grammar, but the content and context that will get you every time..
For example, learn nothing from your brother firefighters of the Pierz, Minnesota, Fire Department except how not to behave. They rather foolishly used the following wording on their business cards.
“Fires extinguished; mountains moved; oceans drained; storms and other natural disasters stopped; virgins converted, lions captured, tamed and bred; cobras, wolverines and women housebroken.”
For their content and context transgressions, the Pierz Firefigthers were sued by a woman in their town accusing them of literally being card-carrying sexists..
Ciao Commendatori
NostraDemus
Jason H. - I liked your pointers! And drinking and driving is really bad - as my husband says (both of our kids are in college) right now a successful party is when no-one drives drunk. We have been hammering that into our children - don't drive drunk, don't ride with anyone who has been drinking, and watch out for drunk drivers on the road.
Jason,
The humor in your response shows me you could do it. Maybe consider microblogging by creating a Twitter account?
Jason,
Do you often get calls that a cat is stuck in a tree?