Grand Forks, ND Shows Off It’s Excess
Today workers in the city of Grand Forks, ND began installing Christmas lights, with a snowflake design, along six (6) routes in the city. These lights cost $205,000 from city funds. City council members claimed they would attract more visitors to the city. Nobody really wanted the lights except a few well heeled snobs and five of the eight council members. In the meantime, the city talks about a budget deficit which will leave us without enough sand to cover the ice-slick streets this winter.The city road crews are underfunded by over $60,000. We will see a possible cutback in essential services and a rate increase for some others. But that doesn’t bother the snobs. They got their lights. And that is all that matters.
