Today in Rhein-Main: Dirty streets thanks to Corona

Good evening,

why do you love this newsletter?

Well, because he takes you into the endless expanse of topics in this metropolitan area and you too are always amazed at which aspect of this beautiful region he unexpectedly lands on.

Today, for example: at ATMs.

What is there to say about ATMs?

Firstly, most of the time they work, how nice.

Secondly, years ago, crooks used extremely tricky methods to spy out customers' secret numbers - a business model that, thanks to modern technology, ran into a serious crisis.

Third: The crooks were only shocked briefly.

Now they just blow up the machines.

In 2021, this happened 56 times in Hesse, half more than in 2020. 2.75 million euros in loot, 2.4 million in material damage.

Manfred Koehler

Head of department of the Rhein-Main editorial team of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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Let's fly further through the endless theme world of the region.

And now we end up with another unexpected topic.

In Wiesbaden, the city officials now unexpectedly had to make a strange decision.

What is more important: continue to operate the sewage treatment plant, empty the garbage cans in the city or sweep the streets?

In the town hall, people think that the sewage treatment plant and garbage cans are beating the streets' cleanliness.

And so there is now less sweeping than before.

Do you find this kind of discussion funny?

Yes, she is too.

But it's Corona, the state capital is particularly annoyingly hit by the pandemic, many employees are sick.

And now you just have to set priorities.

Bad luck for the streets.

And on it goes through the endless theme world ... to: Supermarkets without staff.

Also very unexpected, because that was a dream of the future until now.

But soon it won't be anymore, the retail chain Tegut would like to set up 20 shops in the Rhine-Main area, which will be open around the clock and where the customer is not only king, but also the cashier.

There has been a test run in Fulda for a year and: it works.

Bestsellers in the small wooden shops: bananas.

And in addition, the start of construction for two more high-rise buildings in Frankfurt is expected this year, Rainer Schulze gives an overview of the construction process +++ the Museum for Communication in Frankfurt will be 150 years old, who would have thought it +++ Hesse separates from the Luca app.

I wish you a pleasant evening

Yours, Manfred Koehler

The

for Thursday

The weather remains as it has felt for ages: gray and cloudy.

And it will probably rain at a cozy 5 degrees, at night around 3 degrees.

birthday

on

Lutz Raettig

(CDU), honorary city councilor in Frankfurt, honorary chairman of the stock exchange council of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, honorary president of the financial center initiative Frankfurt Main Finance (79);

, managing director of the Wiesbaden urban development company (63);

, from 1980 to March 2021 chairman of the board of the Rhein-Main district of the industrial union for mining, chemicals and energy, Wiesbaden (59);

(SPD), Lord Mayor of the state capital Mainz, President of the Association of Municipal Enterprises (55);

(CDU), first district councilor of the Hochtaunus district, chairman of the supervisory board of the Rhein-Main landfill group, Flörsheim-Wicker (52).