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Barry Doyle's avatar

Two thoughts:

1. The City's approach to environmentalism is nuts. Setting aside the fact that I am under the very strong impression that the City staff doesn't want to be there, it is a big reason why you get such eye-popping numbers for the renovation/upkeep of the Civic Center and why the City is paying rent downtown Evanston. Same for the Noyes Center.

2. Anything that depends on/relies on federal grant money should be looked at with a very skeptical eye. The last month should tell us that we can't count on the Trump Administration to honor anything.

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Tom Hayden's avatar

I'm still mad about Tree Law causing them to kill some woodpeckers on my street!!!

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Karl's avatar

I’m pretty sure they aren’t dead. I’m pretty sure they are in my attic.

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Linda (Evanston IL)'s avatar

Or they went over the rainbow due to bird flu

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Jason Maslanka's avatar

100% agreed. If you try to turn the civic center into Apple Park from an environmental perspective, you're going to break the bank. Having such a draconian ordinance in a small city only hurts Evanstonians. We make no significant impact on global emissions, but our performative nonsense will hurt real people who just want use their radiators in their 100 year old apartment building.

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taxpayer's avatar

Hope we can count on the Trump administration to defund those "nonprofits" that seem to be behind this.

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Tom Hayden's avatar

Congress should do this! Impoundment should not allow executive branches to stop paying things they just don't like.

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taxpayer's avatar

Yes, Congress should do this.

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