GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – Authorities say the strange odor
seeping into a western Colorado Census Bureau office came from more than 1,000 marijuana plants growing next door.
Grand Junction census workers say the smell was coming through the vents. Police got a search warrant Tuesday and found the plants next door in the same building.
Read the full AP article at the MSNBC website.
On a more practical note, a number of common 2010 census problems are being reported. Things like missing forms and “race” questions seem to be issues. Read more about at the whiotv.com website.
I filled out our Census form about 10 days and mailed it back. I wish I had thought to scan it! It didn’t have a single question regarding race. Nor did it ask anything about nationality. My husband and I were both stunned! An illegal alien could easily be counted in our Census with a form like this!
I own property at three different locations. Census forms were left at only two buildings, both of them with the wrong address. The third form may or may not be in a snow bank, which is where I found these two. Yes, we had 7′ of snow on the ground, but I had shoveled a path down my driveway, so the census enumerator could have left one of those forms on my front doorknob instead of tossing it in the snow where it could have been dragged elsewhere by a snow plow or defecated on by someone’s dog. Four houses near mine don’t appear to have received a census form at all. Both of mine were addressed to a house number on “Cort 40” There is no such place. Apparently this was supposed to read “County Route 40.” If these had been sent through the mail, they would have been returned to the sender because they had incorrect addresses. A Facebook friend told me that her form had the correct street address, but the wrong town.