And it was around in the 1960s and 1970s as a recreational drug, too. The song 'Mother's Little Helper' by the Rolling Stones is about methamphetamine.

This is very, very competitive. Three-quarters of the kids that play here end up with a full-ride scholarship to a university or college in the United States.

The DEA will hire contractors to come and properly dispose of the chemicals, but they don't take out the drapes, carpet, countertops, clothes or any of the porous surfaces inside the house. And what happens if a new family moves into that house without knowing what used to be in there? There is just no standard on how clean is actually clean.

It would be prohibitively expensive to sample all of the soil and water surrounding a lab just to identify substances without addressing them.

So when we need to do maintenance, we aren't digging up a meadow.

I've read about the budget and the need for matching funds. I would be willing to see the money better allocated in the city budget. The library is pretty important and it was pretty well neglected last year.