An act of God?

Or a stormwater management problem?

Those green Servpro cleaning trucks have been all over the neighborhood for the last couple of days, and the bad news for Oshkosh is that some scientists predict that we will be getting a lot more of the kind of intense rainfalls that we saw last week.

The question that city leaders (and all citizens) should be asking is: Are we adequately prepared?

I've just sent an e-mail to the mayor and a couple of other council members to see if they have plans to investigate this issue.

"Every citizen is a reporter"

In Korea, a Web site called OhmyNews is trying to make that slogan a reality. Read a speech by the site's founder to the World Association of Newspapers Conference in Istanbul.