April 10th
9:04 PM
9:04 PM
"If the world was ending tomorrow, I’d wanna be with him."
— Leslie Knope
January 20th
12:06 AM
12:06 AM
Leslie Knope’s List of Issues
- More dog parks
- Senior citizens rights
- Safe streets
- Safe sidewalks
- Better schools
- Lower taxes
- Better parks
- Better business climate
- Better Better Business Bureau
- Cleaner streets
- Improve greenways
- More snow plows
- Protecting Pawneeans
- Improving tourism
- More trash cans
- Energy-efficient street lights
- Westside Detoxification and Revitalization Project
- Repaving Grand Avenue
- More teachers
- Fewer libraries
- Improve intergovernmental agency communication
- Clean-up Barefoot Lake
- Passing Pawnee Jobs Bill P-129.4
- Playgrounds in every park
- Playgrounds in every schoolyard
- Playgrounds in every residential block
- Clean energy
- One police officer for every 5 citizens
- One park ranger for every 10,000 raccoons
- Resodding Hilltop Cemetery
- Start talking to Cuba again
- Emergency evacuation drills
- Plow for Charity
- Forming an Ad Hoc Sub-Committee Oversight Committee
- Challenging the norm
- Pawnee Corn Subsidies
- Finally Passing PR-61, formally recognizing South Korea
- Official peace treaty with the Wamapoke Tribe
- Four-way stops at every intersection
- Unionizing ice cream trucks
- Get Europe out of debt
- Free trade with Illinois
- Enact RRP - Raccoon Relocation Project
- Pawnee Community College tuition in exchange for 4 years of public service
- Doubling Pawnee Hospital’s emergency room nurse staff
- Legalize Korean
- Lower the obesity level
- Stop global terrorism
- Re-open the toucan exhibit at Pawnee Zoo
- Find Gabe the Toucan
- More community gardens
- Ordinance 11F: To Re-pave City Sidewalks
- Budget reform
- Updated Technologies for Local Schools
- Better retirement benefits for city employees
- Edward Phillips Senior Center Remodeling
- Speed bumps in front of elementary schools
- Unemployment benefits
- Re-instating the Main St. Farmers Market
- No turtles as pets
- New uniforms for youth sports programs
- Free public Wi-Fi
- Updated childcare facilities
- Shutting down the Child Left Behind program
- Handicap parking placards for the obese
- FREE PARKING EVERYWHERE
- Cleaner drinking water
- Regulate heights of trampolines
- Memorial for those lost in the trampoline “incident”
- Control the floods
- Funding for public art commission
- Fencing in correctional facilities
- New police patrol cars
- Funding overtime hours for police
- Rebuilding the PTA
- Prosecuting former PTA president Linda Trifle
- Profitable government organizations
- Shutting down underground shooting ranges
- Making sure city contracts employ local workers
- Providing more economic development grants and micro-loans to small businesses
- Foster partnerships with sister cities
- More buses to speed up morning commutes
- More streets to accommodate additional buses
- Require all city employees check and respond to email
- Working sewers
- More parades
- Grants for scientists to discover new forms of energy
- Leave a lasting impression on all visitors
- Challenge the norm
- Finish the statue of Burt Bacharach
- No more conflict diamonds
- Bulletproof glass everywhere
- Free cookies at every street corner
- One school for every student
- Require flattering mirrors in public restrooms
- Develop a municipal composting operation
- Enforce existing speeding and noise ordinances
- Upgrade existing parks
- Create an anti-graffiti, youth outreach program
- Free cake when it’s your birthday
- Reevaluate NAFTA
- Rickshaw Wednesdays
- Making it illegal to refuse a hug
- Make downtown more people-friendly
- Sell candy in government buildings to pay down the debt
- Get Pawnee a licensed pharmacy
- Better screening processes at local adoption agencies
- Finding homes for the adopted children of Day Labor Corp.
- Prop 6A: To Recognize All Five Food Groups
- Replacing all glass with plastic at Pawnee Psychiatric Clinic
- Curfew for minors at The Pawnee Mall
- Stop paying Sweetums the so-called “thank you for being here” tax
- Mini-golf renovations
- Subsidizing educational and eco-friendly businesses
- Removing Zorp from all written laws
- Reducing Federal Government Experiments in town to 10 per year
- Ordinance 8R: A Goat Cannot Own/Inherit a Farm
- Legalize clapping
- New railway
- Prop 14: Religion Is Not a Science
- No longer recognizing the winner of the chili cook-off as a government position
- Stricter testing at Pawnee Blood Bank
- Boarding up unsanctioned “drop off” slot at Pawnee Blood Bank
- Encouraging the FDA to re-analyze our farms
- Funding for better and safer sewage treatment
- Thicker cement for containment of old sewage treatment factory
- Mandatory sexual harassment seminar for government employees
- Starting a dialogue with the people who live in the trees
- Pay off our debt to the Ringling Bros.
- Prove that we can safely host a circus again
- Ordinance 43K: Laws Cannot Be Secrets
- Recall Food N’ Stuff branded hand sanitizer
- Disseminate the fund for a Pawnee Military
- Find the stolen cell phone tower
- Reduce obesity by .01% (100 lbs per family)
- Make the Pawnee Cemetery less flammable
- Less nudity on public-access television
- Capping the number of local public-access channels at 50
- Eliminate permit application process for legal ownership of a calculator
- Making Li’l Sebastian Day a legal holiday
January 3rd
7:48 PM
7:48 PM
I aspire to be Jean-Ralphio.
December 25th
12:03 AM
12:03 AM
Merry Christmas!
December 20th
9:40 PM
9:40 PM
My family knows me so well.
December 11th
4:46 PM
4:46 PM
I track a lot of tags.. :P
New post on the blog! I used tonight’s Parks and Recreation premiere as an excuse to do some Jean-Ralphio and Tom fan art. Plus: Bonus only-mildly-accurate Ben Schwartz sketch.
This is amazing. Annie Wu, you are a hero. Thank you Annie and thank you to everyone who tweeted this pic to me. The season has officially started- Parks and Rec- Thursdays at 8:30pm on NBC.
September 21st
4:05 PM
4:05 PM
