The Daily Sucker

Submitter comments: City of 3,000 located just south of conservative Cincinnati, OH.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Well, it’s Halloween and this site certainly scared the bejesus out of me. I find it somewhat amusing that the web site infers that Halloween is between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. The site is pretty much of a wreck and I can only hope that the new “hub” site will be an improvement. I hope they only play music on Halloween.

One thing that annoys me about government websites is how they throw figures around like they’re important. On the History page, they mention that back in 1926, houses in the town were selling for $10,000. The implication it looks like they’re trying to make is that $10,000 back then equals a really large sum of money today. Nope. I fed the data into the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis “What is a dollar worth?” calculator and discovered that $10,000 in 1926 translates into only $117,118.64 in 2007. I suspect that $117,000 doesn’t buy you much of a house — even in Park Hills, Kentucky.

Park Hills, Kentucky