Gentle Readers, I apologize for this one. Senator Carrico didn't do it. Some person who's been educated beyond his level of intelligence thought you couldn't pay attention to the sentences below if they were printed in a simple straightforward manner that would display correctly on any device. No, the bright boy thought, you needed the "excitement" of garish colors and images of little bells and whistles. In the twentieth century nothing was wrong with adding this kind of frivolity to printed posters hung on walls; in the 1990s printers came with certain amounts of colored ink, and frugal people looked for ways to use up all the colors at the same time. It didn't make announcements "exciting" but it did show that you were the kind of person who didn't waste purple ink. This is the twenty-first century, and nobody should ever presume to add this kind of silliness to a document you might be trying to read on a computer or, bless your poor little heart, a cell phone.
I've shrunk the image so it will fit on everyone's screen; if you're using Google Chrome, you can use CTRL-+ to enlarge it so you can read the words. Feel free to use the comments to express feelings about how public information should be made available online in the form of
plain text. People who use computers know how to read. People who don't plan to turn their computers into toxic waste every year know that letters and numbers don't use up nearly as much memory as graphics do, and that graphics should therefore be used only when readers really need to match an image to a real object (maps, diagrams, photographs).
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