We made the NYT again

August 30, 2007

We made the NYT again

Nizza, Mike. Don't Mess With the Portland Water Bureau. August 28, 2007, 11:42 am. In The Lede, the Notes on News blog at the New York TImes.
thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/28/dont-mess-with-the-portland-water-bureau/?hp

Forecourt Fountain

This time, The Lede, the Notes on News blog at the New York Times is highly amused at our own water department. I guess it's not enough to claim the water bureau has Seven Wonders, but the fact that they are naming names and posting pictures of the kids who add soap to the fountains -- well, is it a slow news day or what?

Yes, putting soap in fountains is amusing, but it also costs about a thousand bucks worth of water, plus a couple of days with that fountain closed for clean up. So I can certainly understand why the water bureau gets upset. It's just funny that the NYT noticed, you know?

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