The Holy Name rotary in West Roxbury has become THE place to put up portable signboards, like this one alerting us to the fact that this year, spring yard-waste pickups will be on the same day as recycling pickups. It's right next to the Boston Police flashing signboard that advises motorists to "Say Hi to Your Neighbors."

Jenn Martinelli provides yet more proof of why living on Beacon Hill is not all it's cracked up to be. I'd like to see somebody with a uniform rifling through our trash here in Roslindale.

Eeka wonders: Why doesn't the city just start fining people for placing any recyclable item in the trash?

... Visible recyclables would warrant one of those green tickets affixed to the house like people receive for putting trash out before 5pm in neighborhoods where the city actually cares about such things. The city could easily afford periodic enforcement with the money they'd be saving on landfill service. ...