One of the things that bothers me in our community is the scrooge like behavior that’s taken hold off in the wake of the last economic downturn. While it’s a good thing when uncertainty abounds to know what you can cut out, our community has taken to turning off the lights in the parking garage: fools. Why? Because… Read More »
Some of you may wonder where we live. We don’t live in the Badlands, but some of the drivers in this area seem to consider it the Wild West, including this Taxi Driver who sat through a change of lights at a busy intersection right ON THE PEDESTRIAN crossing. You can see people crossing the road even now.… Read More »
From the years when I was teaching English in 1996 at Texas Instruments factory in Chongho City, I still remember the construction of the Chongho Overpass and the sheer amount of mess it made with blocked roads, dust, traffic and congestion. In Banquiao, the overpass section there has been under construction since 1995 as well. Since then, the… Read More »