Get it on tape or tape it on?

Is there nothing it can’t fix? Citing the cost and controversy, Monroe Mayor Robert Zimmerman says its unlikely that the city will renew a contract to use traffic cameras at intersections after 2013. Existing cameras won’t be taken down because of a binding contract with the camera company.

But we think the mayor can solve even that problem with some strategically placed duct tape.

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Ooh, la, la: The U.S. Department of Agriculture has revised its color-coded map of the nation’s planting zones for gardeners to reflect changes in climate that many attribute to global warming. For example, most of Ohio, Nebraska and Texas are now in warmer zones.

Those who deny the existence of climate change may continue to do so, up until the point that Cisco Morris begins advising gardeners in Western Washington to give their saguaro cactus some extra water.

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Couldn’t we just ask them? A proposal to shoot electronic tracking tags into the flesh of the state’s resident orcas to study where they go is being criticized by orca experts as potentially harmful and of little use.

Here, all this time we thought it was just fashion, but it now explains all those teenagers and young adults with odd piercings; scientists are studying the range and habitat of young humans.

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