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It is cliched to do this but we are all lemmings in one way or another. Here goes with some lists for 2011.

Top 13 of Subjects of the Year (No Particular Order)

1) The Amsterdam Way, Hippies and Conflicts of Interest
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2) Do As I Say– County Supervisors and Budgets

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3) Tulips and Bulbs– The Campaign to Keep Amsterdam Ugly

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4) Unicorns and Other Mythical Creatures — The Epic Tales of Sharing Services

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5) Demolitionists and The Race to Build Parking Lots

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6) What The Hell Are You Doing Here! — Xenophobia, Racism and Other Tales from the Small City with the Big Heart

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7) Thinking BIG–How to Turn Amsterdam Around

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8) Excessive Returns and Financial Mavericks — How the City Can Fund $40 million in infrastructure with a $10,000 Budget and By Not Buying Tulips

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9) Election 2011 — Low Turnout and Why Winning Really Means You Still Have No Mandate

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10) Existentialism — Why The City Should Exist and Why The City Should not Cede to the Towns and County

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11) And the biggest story of the year — Walking Away from a Game Changing Residential Development Project aka The Dumbest Move of 2011 and likely the 21st Century

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12) Burnt and Crispy — The Dissolution of the Business Case for Shuttering Bacon

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13) Nothing to See Here — How the GASD Board Fails to Its Mandate for Governance

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Top Quips of the Year

When I was in college, there was a group of students in the Society for Creative Anachronisms that used to don medieval garb and simulate knightly battles of ages long past. Apparently we have a similar organization in AIDA sans the self-awareness and irony.

Personally I don’t get how we can proceed with a 2% tax cap when health and retirement expenses greatly exceed that. That is why the property tax approach is broken– I think it’s the solution to the wrong problem.

I’m so very sorry to actually subject your published posts to scrutiny– apparently words appear on your pages and comments unbeknownst to you and hence, you cannot be accountable for your very own words. You may want to reconsider your relationship with words and their sequencing as it kind of matters when you publish a blog and post on blogs. 
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