What if Mary Souza’s Coeur d’Alene Press columns were about milfoil invasions instead of the LCDC and Kroc Center? wonders TUBOB in his online HBO column this week.

The Weedy’s Pulse
By Mary Souza

When David slew Goliath it was with a rock in a sling not a lake weed in a hammock. As summer arrives in our beautiful city by the
lake, we need to remember that biblical heroes can’t save us from the unrepentant growth of an invasive species of aquatic plant. Where were Mike Kennedy and the city council when this weed arrived in our almost entirely Republican lake? Exactly. They weren’t carrying the 10 commandments and Round Up herbicide down from Canfield Mountain were they? Weed increment financing is no way to defer our children’s future plant abatement thingies that Dan Gookin wrote for me on a napkin one time at Denny’s and I couldn’t read it very well because it was kind of in a scrawl because Dan was yelling about something and trying to put new batteries in his digital camera but the sun always rises over Goliath’s right shoulder if the current city council doesn’t pick some roots.

Full column in extended section and here

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