Phone lines at city hall blew up last week after the local paper “The Evanston Roundtable” in Evanston, IL (not far from my own hometown of Downers Grove outside Chicago) notified residents that they would now need to purchase a “snow removal sticker” to place outside their homes as evidence they had paid the snow removal tax of $2.25 per day. If they did not have the sticker in place, their street would not be plowed. In the ensuing furious response by the public, city hall simply reminded people that the story had been published on Friday, April 1, 2011. This, of course, made all the more irritating in the aftermath of major blizzards this year. But it does say something about the confidence in local government that so many people believed such a ridiculous program was really possible by their government. PS, you really must read the actual story/prank/alert. It’s hilarious. They truly “snowed” the residents with all the little add-ons to the program.
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