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Friday, April 3, 2015
They're Back!
Welcome this weekend are eggs left in the grass by the Easter bunny. Unwelcome, to many, are the plastic bags containing Shop & Find left on doorsteps this morning by Columbia-Greene Media.
The good news, a reader reports, is that if you don't want this compendium of advertisements deposited on your stoop, in your yard, or on your driveway, you can call the Register-Star office (828-1616) and ask them to stop. Someone will take your address and assure you that no more Shop & Finds will be delivered to you. You might also want to tell them about unoccupied houses in your neighborhood.
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Without approval, distribution of these advertisements is patently unlawful in Hudson!
ReplyDeleteHas this been authorized by the city?
Anyone who doesn't like the law should change it. Until they do, this is an illegal and objectionable practice.
Came out this morning to find the plastic bag thrown in my driveway and in every driveway along 9H. My solution was to bring it into Hudson and drop it on Green Street in front of the door to the Register-Star. Maybe everyone should do the same and when they find a few hundred bags there, maybe they'll get the message we don't want them!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant! I'm gonna do that.
DeleteWe have been receiving a similar publication for years in our mailboxes on Fri/Sat...I thought that this was that publication..WELL, it's not and now we received these on our porches..as well as receive the one in the mail, In a Claverack mobile home park...
ReplyDeleteIf Hudson had a law requiring segregated drinking fountains in public buildings, would Unheimlich (a/k/a Tim O’Connor) demand that the use of non-segregated drinking fountains be punished as an “illegal” activity, until the law was rescinded? One hopes the answer is no.
ReplyDeleteThe principle is the same here. Hudson has a number of unconstitutional laws on the books—for example, its laws regarding election signage. Fortunately, HPD has generally avoided enforcing laws it knows are bogus. Unfortunately, the Council never gets around to fixing its predecessors’ mistakes.
Yes, efforts should also be made to have such laws rescinded. But calling a Constitutional right “illegal” just because some past Council was foolish enough to try to ban a protected activity suggests a lack of familiarity with Civics 101.
--S.