At Tuesday’s meeting, the Bedford Town Board took a bold step in performative overreach by approving a resolution supporting a county-wide leaf blower restriction. Because when your own residents are still bitter about your local ban, the obvious solution is to expand the misery.
This is the political equivalent of spilling wine on the carpet, then hurling your glass across the room just to even it out.
We’re now officially in the era of trickle-down inconvenience, where Bedford’s most unpopular ideas are exported under the noble guise of ‘regional collaboration’. Translation: we blew it, and now we’d like everyone else to blow it too. But only if it’s with a battery-powered blower that dies halfway through your driveway and turns yard work into a three-day odyssey.
As for public messaging? The Supervisor announced this move in her Friday newsletter, illustrated - without explanation - with a giant bucket. Either a stock photo mix-up or a helpful suggestion for what readers might need while trying to digest it.
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