Observations...
Our friends at AT&T have raised fees again with guess who paying the most…rural and small town residents. We got hit with a 15.5% increase, effective July 1 (they announced it July 3) while the big city folks in Tulsa and Oklahoma City only got a 4.7% increase.
Reason? Lack of competition in rural Oklahoma. Isn't that special. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission two years ago said it was OK for AT&T to raise rates by $2 a year for five years, a decision which has been upheld by the State Supreme Court. The little guy loses again…Isn't it about time someone raised the possibility of building a new dam on the Neosho River above Commerce? Seems it would reduce the possibility of flooding there and in Miami. The only other dam on the Neosho is John Redmond Dam way up there in middle Kansas…Congratulations to local citizen Ben Hynam on another great July 3 fireworks and entertainment show. A full 30 minutes of fireworks was presented in front of a large crowd at the city's sports complex on 13th street. We look forward to another one in 2008...Our neighbor says he saw a large tree floating down the lake with what looked like a coffin on top, but upon further review, discovered it was a large mattress sized piece of foam. We should capitalize on all of this tree debris...capture one of them and label it the Grand Lake Monster, sort of like the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland, which has made millions of dollars over the past hundred years from tourists that come to view it. We could do an entire ad campaign on the Grand Lake Monster and once in awhile, have a scuba diver make it move up and down from beneath to give it a live look. Another use for the tree debris would be to hold Tree Races, kids atop the trunk paddling across a set-up race course. Also, we can't wait for one of those go-fast loud boats to land topside of the tree destroying itself in the process. Only a certified nutcase would be out on the lake in conditions like this. Toto ain't in Kansas anymore, and neither is half their forests...
Reason? Lack of competition in rural Oklahoma. Isn't that special. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission two years ago said it was OK for AT&T to raise rates by $2 a year for five years, a decision which has been upheld by the State Supreme Court. The little guy loses again…Isn't it about time someone raised the possibility of building a new dam on the Neosho River above Commerce? Seems it would reduce the possibility of flooding there and in Miami. The only other dam on the Neosho is John Redmond Dam way up there in middle Kansas…Congratulations to local citizen Ben Hynam on another great July 3 fireworks and entertainment show. A full 30 minutes of fireworks was presented in front of a large crowd at the city's sports complex on 13th street. We look forward to another one in 2008...Our neighbor says he saw a large tree floating down the lake with what looked like a coffin on top, but upon further review, discovered it was a large mattress sized piece of foam. We should capitalize on all of this tree debris...capture one of them and label it the Grand Lake Monster, sort of like the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland, which has made millions of dollars over the past hundred years from tourists that come to view it. We could do an entire ad campaign on the Grand Lake Monster and once in awhile, have a scuba diver make it move up and down from beneath to give it a live look. Another use for the tree debris would be to hold Tree Races, kids atop the trunk paddling across a set-up race course. Also, we can't wait for one of those go-fast loud boats to land topside of the tree destroying itself in the process. Only a certified nutcase would be out on the lake in conditions like this. Toto ain't in Kansas anymore, and neither is half their forests...
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