Media Watch

I could be wrong, because I'm no attorney, but... There doesn't appear to be an exception in the city's parking ordinance for non-emergency vehicles. And I've never heard an emergency overtime parking call go out over the police radio. To top this off, the parking enforcement vehicle is parked under the 8th Street viaduct at the police parking office, where there were empty spaces available for parking enforcement vehicles a few feet away at the time this photo was taken. The reason for no-parking zones is always for public safety. Where they're placed nearly always improves sight lines, making motoring safer in general. But restricting parking isn't just for cars. As the Federal Highway Administration points out, parking creates a visual barrier between motor vehicle traffic and crossing pedestrians, especially children and people using wheelchairs.

A video posted under the channel name Frank Meadows shows police being scolded for stopping a man walking along a city street. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRjUt3n7Rh0 ) The man, apparently walking to a Walmart in West Des Moines, Iowa, was flagged down by 2 police officers passing by in a marked patrol car. They were joined by another pair of officers shortly thereafter. Officers Brian Ascheman and Jacob Sutton identified themselves when asked. The other two officers, Greg Warren and Clint Ray, appeared to remain silent when asked their names. Ray is the police officer who arrested Keilon Hill for harassment on October 29, 2018 while canvassing. ( https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=Ox6qoW3sEFM ) In the video entitled "Harassed by West Des Moines police for walking" Meadows entered this description: "Walking out of hotel and instantly targeted by police. Thir attitude changed into smug condescension when I askef to talk to a superior officer. Smug, smug a

James Madison called and wants to know why people of the 21st century are having a partison debate on which of two presidents did a better job cleaning up after natural disasters when neither possessed the authority to do so. I hope it's OK that I told him he left us with a government that routinely exceeds its authority, with the consent of the least informed citizens. It's interesting to watch this debate on the quality of the federal government's post-disaster cleanup in the affected states following Hurricane Sandy. Isn't there something objectively wrong in expecting presidents to exercise authority of medieval kings? On the floor of the US House of Representatives James Madison said he could not undertake to lay his finger on that article in the Federal Constitution which granted a right of Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.  (See the Annals of Congress, House of Representatives, 3rd Congress, 1st Session, pa