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Handicapped spots for pregnancy … This concept raises its head from
time to time. Now Kentucky is consider- ing a bill to allow pregnant women and
those with children under age 1 to park in handicapped reserved spaces. Natu- rally, the folks with disabilities are up in arms. The idea is that there are hardly
enough handicapped spaces now, and if pregnant women and those with young children park there, the truly handicapped won’t have space. I will reprise what I think. Stores
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that feature products that appeal to the pregnant and young children (Babies R Us, drugstores, grocery stores, etc.) can, if they like, pay for spots near their shops and have them marked for the pregnant or new moms. I cannot for the life of me see where this is something in which the state should be involved. Why should the local hardware
store or men’s clothing store pay for parking spaces for pregnant women? Makes no sense to moi.
Let the free market handle it.
Babies R Us reserves spots for their customers – good PR, good marketing. So be it. The Kentucky Legislature should stay out of it.
Wow, I’mactually for the incumbent ... The main issue in the Waukegan,
IL, election for City Clerk is parking charges. The problem is that workers, students and, dare I say it, lawyers, parking in the downtown area found that it was cheaper to just leave their cars there, get a $5 ticket and pay it than to park in nearby lots. The City Clerk’s Office commissioned a study and, guess what, found that if it raised the fines to $20, the problem would go away. Of course, some firebrand decided
thiswas“unfair” andwould cause peo- ple not to shop downtown, and is run- ning against the incumbent on a “keep parking rates and fines low” ticket. The incumbent is right, of course.
If the newbie wins, parking will be chaos again in downtown, and soon after the election, he will be forced to change his mind. Sound familiar?
3,000 abandoned vehicles at Dubai airport OK, we have all read the articles
claiming that more than 3,000 high- end vehicles have been abandoned at Dubai airport because their owners had lost their jobs and couldn’t make the payments. We also have read the denial from the local government, which said the actual number was four. So what are the facts? First of all,
the reporter who wrote the original story was quoting an “unnamed source” at the airport. That should tell you something right there. We also were told that people left for Christ- mas, didn’t return, and thus aban- doned their cars. Let’s review the bidding. You have an airport parking oper-
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ation. How long does a car have to be in the lot before it is considered aban- doned? People living in Dubai travel a lot. They stay away for months at a time. Surely the locals have figured that
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