Yeah the equation all changes. If part time either expect to be paid less than a full time counterpart to offset the cost per hour of your health insurance, or just pay for it out of pocket.

Say your premium is $500/mo or whatever. At 40hr/wk that's $2.88/hr additional an employer is compensating. At 30hr/wk that's $3.84/hr. At 20hr/wk that's $5.75 more. At 15hr/wk that's $7.70 more.

Well see she tithed and believes in god. Those homeless kids deserve to be in the shadows!

VERY strong /s here...

G'dam necromancers keep tearing down my chitty wall!

Not only that, no photos after the fact.

If she really has them, every medical doctor will want to examine it, write a paper, and win a Nobel prize for the discovery for how to regrow appendages.

Wikipedia says Australia.

That's actually a really solid reason in and of itself.

I think most of us wanted to be early adopters but it's taken years to build out. We're what 2-3 years down the road and half the city still doesn't have it?

I would've loved to get this at $65/mo 2 years ago, but here I am still waiting and now I'll get the honor of paying $100/mo?

Tf?

Honest question, is traffic really an issue many people face in town?

Like I get it if you're travelling home to Nixa at 5pm. But I've lived here many many years in all different parts of Springfield and I've never had to deal with more than 15 minutes by car.

Compared to major cities around us, STL KC, our traffic just isn't that bad, in my opinion.

Best comment here by far, and actually opened my eyes a bit. In my opinion you're probably right, only viable option I can think of is a Nixa to Springfield pipeline. Major stops at Cox, Mercy, MSU.

Hard comparison, I could ride my bike 4 miles at an old job in 20 minutes, or I could drive myself there and it take 15 minutes.

Riding a bike if you live and work in Springfield, is actually really efficient.

Sounds like we solved the problem!

I guess in addition what I'm saying is all of those businesses, or at least a large majority are VERY against this idea because of what I mentioned with logistics.

Without the businesses you're impacting on board, it's dead in the water.

In theory I love this idea and have proposed this to many people.

Problem is how do you get deliveries to the businesses if you block both their front and back streets? Now you have to deliver and hand truck everything a block and you'd just have delivery trucks idling around that outside.

Never had a problem parking on the southeast side of downtown. Usually just use the Wilhoit lot.

Downtown density kind of stops further south than that and east kind of ends by Kimbrough.

Valid point, ultimately we live on a line between individual freedoms and societal benefit.

One is not good for the other. On one hand, I pay taxes on my property and everything I buy, that's a negative to my individual freedom of owning my land myself. However society wins because I won't voluntarily pay my fair share for the roads otherwise.

In this case, it's a shot at this guy's individual freedom, but because the city has deemed this as a high enough societal benefit that it outweighs the individual freedoms this man has to this land.

We absolutely disagree, and that's okay. This is the dialogue that is absolutely necessary so that the government doesn't steamroll everyone into submission. In this case I think it's justified, but I wouldn't say it is in every case.

The city doesn't deem the value. A third party appraiser does.

In my opinion that building, in that condition, in that location, as it is, is worth maybe $200k tops. I don't know what the appraiser valued it at but the building isn't worth much at all.

Nothing, people just think any use of eminent domain is the gubment taking their land.

I'm all for the little guy in some eminent domain cases. But honestly this was just a guy running a haunted house 1 out of 12 months a year. The building is basically boarded up because of that, and closed the rest of the year.

The place looks like shit and having a rough looking haunted house in the middle of the future park would be stupid.

Funny thing is the guys other buildings he owns down there street are in much worse shape than the hotel of terror.

Mind you he bought them shitty, he just hasn't ever done anything to clean any of them up.

If you ask me, he bought them cheap ( I know that for a fact), and my speculation is that he holds onto them long enough to turn a nice profit.

I'm well aware.

However you said "nobody on the entire south side". Which is a false statement because I, a Southside resident, am for the development.

The city has done a lot with Cristi. They've even set up a whole procedure for police to call the one cal number to have volunteers come out and assist homeless encampments 24-48 hours before they are removed.

Springfield isn't Greene county. The Sheriff is only controlled by the voters of Greene county. The Springfield city council and mayor have absolutely 100% no control over what the Sheriff does, and would be out of line if they started telling him what he should or could be doing.

Does the sheriff suck? Yup. But we continue to vote him in every few years.

As for how to solve homelessness. You're right we do need those measures in place, the problem as always, is we need to figure out how to pay for them. Either you take money from another program, or you tax the city/county. The city doesn't just have coffers of cash, like almost all organizations they run pretty budget neutral, as they should.

South side resident here.

I do.

Yeah I saw the smouldering video. I agree it was burned but by who?

And I read the article, sounds like the department just doesn't share with that paper because they have a grudge.

Again I think all of this is plausible but I'm not ready to hang anyone yet.

Yeah as stated previously, I think we're all ready with pitchforks if it turns out to be true, and on one hand many of us won't be surprised.

That being said, we do need some more evidence unfortunately. While eyewitness testimony should be enough, it's just not in this case.

If proven correct, this has national news written all over it.

"Every room comes with a bottle of old bay seasoning, for the crabs".

God. Fucking lol.

Rename it to "The Mullet Motel"