What, you thought the news agencies were on your side?
Note that it "takes effect" now--the story that I got was only a couple paragraphs long and didn't say when it was voted into law.
Now, legislators seem to have few compunctions about voting in restrictive laws as long as they take effect a long way down the road--witness the Southwest [Washington] Clean Air Authority (http://www.swcleanair.org/index.html). The legislation for it was voted on in the late 80's, but it went into effect in 2001 or so. It imposed crushing restrictions on outdoor burning (http://www.swcleanair.org/lewis.html), but focuses narrowly on some of the more rural counties.
Newspapers skimmed over the creation of the agency, burying it since it had no immediate impact. Naturally when the laws detailed in the second link went into effect, there was an outcry, but the agency representatives and the media essentially shrugged and said "You should have protested back in 1988." (I'm paraphrasing here.)
They don't list it under their official funding page, but it's probable that a kickback from the garbage company helps with their budget. After all, when we could burn paper garbage we had our garbage picked up once a month. Once that was forbidden, we had to go to once a week.
What, you thought the news agencies were on your side?
Note that it "takes effect" now--the story that I got was only a couple paragraphs long and didn't say when it was voted into law.
Now, legislators seem to have few compunctions about voting in restrictive laws as long as they take effect a long way down the road--witness the Southwest [Washington] Clean Air Authority (http://www.swcleanair.org/index.html). The legislation for it was voted on in the late 80's, but it went into effect in 2001 or so. It imposed crushing restrictions on outdoor burning (http://www.swcleanair.org/lewis.html), but focuses narrowly on some of the more rural counties.
Newspapers skimmed over the creation of the agency, burying it since it had no immediate impact. Naturally when the laws detailed in the second link went into effect, there was an outcry, but the agency representatives and the media essentially shrugged and said "You should have protested back in 1988." (I'm paraphrasing here.)
They don't list it under their official funding page, but it's probable that a kickback from the garbage company helps with their budget. After all, when we could burn paper garbage we had our garbage picked up once a month. Once that was forbidden, we had to go to once a week.
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Date: 2004-10-31 04:57 pm (UTC)Note that it "takes effect" now--the story that I got was only a couple paragraphs long and didn't say when it was voted into law.
Now, legislators seem to have few compunctions about voting in restrictive laws as long as they take effect a long way down the road--witness the Southwest [Washington] Clean Air Authority (http://www.swcleanair.org/index.html). The legislation for it was voted on in the late 80's, but it went into effect in 2001 or so. It imposed crushing restrictions on outdoor burning (http://www.swcleanair.org/lewis.html), but focuses narrowly on some of the more rural counties.
Newspapers skimmed over the creation of the agency, burying it since it had no immediate impact. Naturally when the laws detailed in the second link went into effect, there was an outcry, but the agency representatives and the media essentially shrugged and said "You should have protested back in 1988." (I'm paraphrasing here.)
They don't list it under their official funding page, but it's probable that a kickback from the garbage company helps with their budget. After all, when we could burn paper garbage we had our garbage picked up once a month. Once that was forbidden, we had to go to once a week.
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Date: 2004-10-31 04:57 pm (UTC)Note that it "takes effect" now--the story that I got was only a couple paragraphs long and didn't say when it was voted into law.
Now, legislators seem to have few compunctions about voting in restrictive laws as long as they take effect a long way down the road--witness the Southwest [Washington] Clean Air Authority (http://www.swcleanair.org/index.html). The legislation for it was voted on in the late 80's, but it went into effect in 2001 or so. It imposed crushing restrictions on outdoor burning (http://www.swcleanair.org/lewis.html), but focuses narrowly on some of the more rural counties.
Newspapers skimmed over the creation of the agency, burying it since it had no immediate impact. Naturally when the laws detailed in the second link went into effect, there was an outcry, but the agency representatives and the media essentially shrugged and said "You should have protested back in 1988." (I'm paraphrasing here.)
They don't list it under their official funding page, but it's probable that a kickback from the garbage company helps with their budget. After all, when we could burn paper garbage we had our garbage picked up once a month. Once that was forbidden, we had to go to once a week.