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“A sense of entitlement”, encouraged by TransLink and colluding local bus companies, has allowed fare-evasion on our public transport to continue ad infinitum.
While Go-card commuters pay their fare with prepaid credit each trip, drivers deal with some boarding with excuses why they need a free ride.
Drivers warn these recalcitrants, TransLink inspectors “may” board and fine those without a legitimate fare.
It’s a joke.
TransLink inspectors are scarce as hen’s teeth, particularly in regional areas outside the Brisbane metropolitan area.
Kent State and Vietnam memories
Posted5/15/2021 1:00 AM
The story about Mary Ann Vecchio, the then-14-year-old pictured in the iconic photo taken at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, when the National Guard shootings occurred there, brought memories to mind.
The first is that other American soldiers and I stationed in what was then South Vietnam in spring 1970 cheered President Nixon when on April 30 he announced the invasion of Cambodia. Well before the president s announcement, a land-clearing engineer company was deployed to knock down jungle so that infantry troops could get to the cache of weapons in the caves where the enemy housed them.
Updated 5/13/2021 11:25 AM
The Daily Herald rightly stated, Help us all. Do your part. (Editorial: Do your part; get the COVI-19 vaccination) With Illinois help, Taiwan can help the health of all.
Taiwan has been successful in containing COVID-19. At the pandemic s first outbreak, Taiwan was expected to be among the most severely affected by the epidemic. Yet, Taiwan virtually halted the disease within its borders. Moreover, life and work have continued much as normal for the majority of the population.
Democratic Taiwan has fought COVID-19 since its first case in January 2020. After facing down the 2003 SARS outbreak, Taiwan in 2020 activated its Taiwan Model of COVID-19 containment. With a robust health system, rigorous testing strategies, information transparency and public-private partnerships, Taiwan s response to COVID-19 has been a world success story. Taiwan has also mitigated the economic impact of COVID-19, maintaining the balance between people s right to k