http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/02/20/did-city-attorneys-make-a-convincing-case-to-let-you-opt-out-of-yellow-pages-delivery Comments On: Did City Attorneys Make a Convincing Case to Let You Opt-Out of Yellow Pages Delivery? by Dominic Holden en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 25 May 2013 21:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
Form a non-profit organization which takes donations for operations, which consist mostly of volunteers, but need some organizers and some rented vans or trucks. The organization's purpose is to track the phone book dumpers and follow them around, picking up all the phone books they leave. At the end of a shift, all the phone books in the vans get dumped back in a giant messy pile at the offices of the offenders.

I wouldn't think you'd get in trouble for dumping their phone books back on them (FREE SPEECH!), and I wouldn't think taking a phone book they'd just dumped on someone's porch would be considered theft (not too sure about that one though).

Posted by beef rallard]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:45:27 -0800 The Stranger
Posted by beef rallard]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:37:31 -0800 The Stranger Posted by COMTE]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:49:32 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:59:05 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Max Solomon]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:27:32 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Ernie1]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 06:30:47 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Melch]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 06:11:49 -0800 The Stranger Posted by SeattleD]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:06:37 -0800 The Stranger Posted by madcap]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 01:23:37 -0800 The Stranger Posted by beef rallard]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:38:52 -0800 The Stranger
You also can't mark junk mail return to sender and stick it in a mailbox (the way you can with damn near everything else). You'll just get it back.

Posted by gnossos]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:36:18 -0800 The Stranger
Bet I won't get any more YPs after that.


Posted by K]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:56:34 -0800 The Stranger
I got no problem with the loss. But the only fact we all seem to know for sure is which guy put his name on the bill as author, as written, as passed. Instead of mentioning that name at this delicate moment, we speculate out loud about faceless civil servants conveniently lower on the food chain who must have screwed up. It's funny, that's all.
Posted by gloomy gus]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:55:05 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Dominic Holden]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:12:43 -0800 The Stranger
But absent some shoeleather reporting behind this premise that the city's lawyers fucked this up, that this court would have ruled for the bill if only better attorneys were on it, then it's O'Brien's bill that made them lose the case. Mike took a calculated risk, his council colleagues signed on--except for Jean Godden, mocked as a yellow-pages shill when she insisted its unconstitutionality would sink it--and now a half-million dollars later it's back to the drawing board.

A bill will be passed someday that will accomplish the hoped-for result. This is a step in that direction. And council members are well within their authority to pass riskily-worded bills that sometimes get shot down in court. We get to pay for those mistakes, the same way we get to benefit from their victories, and it's fine.

But we shouldn't get in the habit of not holding electeds accountable for the bad as well as the good. And trying to shift the blame onto city employees? Better have damn good reason.
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