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As smoke filled the Takoma Park city council chambers, it was a wonder anyone could see the slides being projected onto the screen. The presentation was by EYA, the developer of the housing project proposed for the Takoma Station Metro green space. The smoke had two sources, Takoma Parkian's burning anger, and EYA's smoldering disdain.

Pathetic is the only way to describe EYA's presentation. Their changes were minimal and they brought no experts qualified to explain most of them. They admitted that the profit to EYA on the entire project was "marginal, " that the only reason they were there was due to pressure from the Maryland governor's office, that they might not actually make the changes they were presenting, and they didn't really care what Takoma Park thought, they were going ahead with it.

Here it is the first sentence of our post and we're already exhausted from wrestling with our inner punster. Must. Resist. Doggedly.

This is the chief's fault! Takoma Park Police Chief Ronald Ricucci wants dogs! He wants not one, not two, not even three, but FOUR dogs. These are working police dogs, of course, dogs trained to sniff out drugs and people. The city had two dogs and retired one, which the chief wants to replace. He's asked the council for a third dog, and wishes for a fourth.