To further reduce costs, the city is scaling back its curbside pickup from once a week to every other week, which has frustrated and confused some residents.

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Now here's a real head-scratcher -- imagine that instead of having Netflix ship you a new movie on disc every few days, you had some other company sending you a new hard drive once or twice a week.

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Now I fly down every other month, have hired someone we know well and trust implicitly to come in once a week, and my sister is stepping up after years of assuming all was well enough and that I could handle the work.

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