It was an under-the-radar measure around the country. Proposition R in San Francisco would’ve renamed the sewage treatment plant the “George W. Bush Sewage Treatment Plant.”
Alas, the measure failed. “Some critics had pointed out the name switch would have been unfair,” the Associated Press said today, “to the hard-working sewage plant.”
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins