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Post photo: Old Bank

Souffle 

Our members of parliament are always happy to complain that the public has little or no respect for them. Hardly any member of parliament asks himself why that could be? For example, the successes of parliamentary work are difficult or almost impossible to determine and in any case are far too long in coming. In addition, one hears again and again of deceitful deputies and it can also be seen that they often have little to no competence or at least a little bit of experience. It is now possible for MPs to have their pocket money counted out by their parents at home, but they decide on the federal or state budget in parliament.

We have now been able to learn from a professional politician who has spent his entire life as a member of parliament and even as a minister that these fears of the citizens are not completely unfounded. Thomas Strobl now even compares his colleagues to a soufflé, making fun of professional politicians more than any citizen could do — and he should definitely know.

lecture evening

Yesterday, at the invitation of the EUROPA-UNION Karlsruhe, I was able to speak about my favorite topic, Europe. I took this opportunity to take a look at the city's new infrastructure projects: the subway and a road tunnel. For this purpose, the rails in Kaiserstraße were closed and a lot of space was created for strolling. Now I'm curious to see how this will affect the better weather.

I was surprised that, in addition to the expected European federalists, other interested parties also came to the lecture. What I really liked was that the questions asked not only fitted well with the actual topic, but also rounded off the subsequent discussion very well. Unfortunately, time was again far too short and so I promised quite logically that there would be another round of discussions.

At the end there was a wonderful finale in a restaurant — very typical of Baden. And so I will certainly come back to Karlsruhe and I will be very happy.

drfield crew

I've been asked by readers for a while now whether I'm not addressing the recent behavior of gangs of thieves who are roaming through Heilbronn and, according to reports, are mostly urging grandmothers who are more advanced in life to order a fiber optic connection for their property.

A gentleman has also approached my own parents who wanted to convince them that they should vote to have the recently renovated road dug up again. He didn't want to accept my mother's tip that Telekom already had fiber optics just across the street.

Which also makes me wonder what Telekom is still waiting for? Even around the corner from me, Telekom advertises that the fiber optics are less than 50 meters away from me. When I asked why they didn't deliver it to my house, I still haven't gotten an answer.

And so, first of all, a new company, Deutsche GigaNetz GmbH, is advertised, which, for whatever reason, is supposed to make a lot of money in Heilbronn and the surrounding area. And to this day I would not have written about the fact that in Heilbronn, too, the city administration has not fulfilled its own tasks for decades and, in addition to the serious lack of order and cleanliness, the entire city infrastructure is also being run down - as a self-proclaimed "world (space) stadt” one does not want to lag behind Berlin.

In any case, it would have done Heilbronn a lot of good if, as an industrial and commercial city, it hadn't waited until better internet was available even in the Sahel zone. The problem with this is that neither our city councils - at least most of them - nor the city administration need internet - the fax is still the devil's stuff for these people today.

And the reader would have been spared all these thoughts if a letter from the Mayor of Heilbronn had not been in my mailbox today, which is certainly legally secure, but nevertheless unambiguously advertises the Deutsche GigaNetz; and this at the expense of us citizens, of course.

Which now makes me wonder whether, after the supply position OB, there is still a supervisory board position at GigaNetz for him. Or even worse, soon all citizens will receive the mayor's request to buy more from Lidl, because a nationwide supply of discounters is clearly an essential location factor, indispensable for both companies and many private households.

As already mentioned, the really bad thing is that our city administration's realization came a good 30 years too late. But what are 30 years there, when we are just beginning to think about whether the plans for the renovation of Turmstraße could perhaps be realized in the coming decades - 100 years after the last war should be the target at the moment.

piece of music of the day

Thanks goes to Thomas Heiligenmann for the hint.

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