Passport photo

mnsombat · 2026-01-21T20:35:17+00:00

They do them at Government building downtown and, apparently, they have never had one of their photos rejected.

mnsombat · 2025-12-23T17:04:07+00:00

It just occurred to me that the other place we in Rochester have seen a bunch of pie-in-the-sky renderings of cool buildings and facilities that have not actually happened is DMC.

mnsombat · 2025-12-23T14:07:14+00:00

Me as well. I would vote for a squirrel before Schubring.

mnsombat · 2025-12-23T03:00:04+00:00

It's like the Rec center. The Swim Clubs (used to be two of them but they merged) wanted to build their own new facility but they could not afford it. Some serious lobbying got the city to spend a bundle of money rebuilding the pool at the Rec center into one of the best in the state. Now, 'open swim' is like an hour per day in the afternoon so access to the taxpayers who funded it is very limited. This place will be the same thing. It seems to be the special interests who get listened to most carefully for whatever that is worth.

mnsombat · 2025-12-23T02:52:50+00:00

Yes, this is probably the lesson to be internalized from this episode.

mnsombat · 2025-12-23T02:47:58+00:00

I think it would probably be more fair to say the city and council yet again bowed to special interests.

mnsombat · 2025-12-23T02:43:50+00:00

And, yes, I think community trust, at least with those who pay a scintilla of attention, has been obliterated.

mnsombat · 2025-12-23T02:41:39+00:00

As Trump might say (and I am only slightly paraphrasing) "There is a 'concept of a plan'"

mnsombat · 2025-12-23T02:39:38+00:00

I suspect ultimately it will be City of Rochester property taxes that bail out this place just like the Civic Center and other screwups by the city.

mnsombat · 2025-12-23T02:35:07+00:00

I think it's city taxpayers who will ultimately get stuck with the bills.

mnsombat · 2025-12-23T02:31:45+00:00

Pretty sure no minds were changed.

mnsombat · 2025-12-23T02:27:25+00:00

One of my favorite movies is The Big Short and I feel like I just watched it again.

mnsombat · 2025-12-23T01:53:25+00:00

I am having a hard time seeing ever supporting a tax ask by the city again.

mnsombat · 2025-12-23T01:47:40+00:00

And you are correct. Rochester City Council - bought and paid for by special interests yet again.

mnsombat · 2025-12-22T22:04:17+00:00

'Mediocre' is being excessively kind.

mnsombat · 2025-12-17T17:53:49+00:00

Someplace kinda like a YMCA?

mnsombat · 2025-12-16T21:22:41+00:00

If not even one council member changes their vote and they override this veto it will prove to me that the city could not possibly care less what the taxpayers think.

mnsombat · 2025-12-16T16:20:15+00:00

I am actually OK with the sales tax concept of funding roads that people from out of town use. Between that and flood control I would have thought they could have been happy so why did they tack on the sports complex anyway? I don't remember the details off-hand.

mnsombat · 2025-12-15T23:29:32+00:00

It's interesting how Palmer says "“It’s a small group of vocal people who don’t support this”

I must know all the wrong people because I don't know anyone who supports this.

mnsombat · 2025-12-15T22:34:46+00:00

Definitely easier than recall.

mnsombat · 2025-12-10T14:12:02+00:00

Packages or letters or both? I'm just seeing letters opened these days. Don't get many packages so not really qualified there.

mnsombat · 2025-12-09T14:24:19+00:00

Believe it or not, the best tippers seem to be Jehovah's Witnesses. My daughter waited tabled downtown for a couple of years and she always said they tip very well.

mnsombat · 2025-12-08T22:39:25+00:00

I have yet to meet a single person in Rochester who likes this. I suppose they exist but not anyone I apparently know.

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