Can't I leave town for a few days?
I go out of town to visit relatives for a few days over Thanksgiving and what do I get?
A bunch of e-mail flames beating me up for not posting any drivel here.
C'mon people, get a life!
If that wasn't bad enough, I look at the letters to the editor over the past few days and I find Darth Vader, Luke
Skywalker, Lord Sith and Princess Layer battling it out with their rhetoric on high-stun.
I'll let you assign the character names, but we have ex-mayor Iko weighing in about Mayor Al's less than subtle efforts to dismantle every high-ticket item Mayor Iko got started. Mayor Al and none other than Councilman Beneteau mount counterattacks and Councilwoman Compora exposes the bias of relatives of Shiftless Kansier penning crap about the fire department.
A lot of heat and very little light in this group. But one thing that it's time to talk about a little more is the Third St. -Front St. intersection controversy. Mayor Al is right. This never was a critical intersection. It sure is awkward to use and that's why no one in their right minds use it during get-out-of-town afternoon rush hours. But my theory is the reconfiguration of the intersection was just a decoy. Mayor Iko's real goal was to knock down those crappy slum-apartment-former-storefront-buildings that were a signature entry to the city. We all tend to get too close to the situation when we live around here, but let's face it, to the uninitiated entering our town, this stuff looked like what it really was -- urban blight.
It got to be an intersection issue because the city's trump card was eminent domain. To make a case for eminent domain, you'd have to make a case for a necessary public use -- the HAZARDOUS INTERSECTION. Now, because he's a planner by day, Mayor Iko ALSO would have liked to reconfigure the intersection, but he probably achieved 80 percent of his goal by buying and knocking down the ratty houses.
Even the crappy empty lot there looks better, but I know Mayor Al's crew has some beautification plans on tap.
But somebody's putting a paper bag over his head when he talks about the United Furniture Building being a waste of money. Hey, the port commission -- all pre-Iko appointees -- went along with this one. And as far as contaminated IKO property and problems with cleaning and rezoning, heck, Mayor Al did that with the Mason Run site, so what's the big deal?
Anyway, all these officials and exs should duke it out at the Loranger Pavilion cause there seems to be a lot of pent up hostility here leaking into the letters to the ediitor columns. Boy, I can't wait for the next mayoral debate.
Worrell will win it.
A bunch of e-mail flames beating me up for not posting any drivel here.
C'mon people, get a life!
If that wasn't bad enough, I look at the letters to the editor over the past few days and I find Darth Vader, Luke
Skywalker, Lord Sith and Princess Layer battling it out with their rhetoric on high-stun.
I'll let you assign the character names, but we have ex-mayor Iko weighing in about Mayor Al's less than subtle efforts to dismantle every high-ticket item Mayor Iko got started. Mayor Al and none other than Councilman Beneteau mount counterattacks and Councilwoman Compora exposes the bias of relatives of Shiftless Kansier penning crap about the fire department.
A lot of heat and very little light in this group. But one thing that it's time to talk about a little more is the Third St. -Front St. intersection controversy. Mayor Al is right. This never was a critical intersection. It sure is awkward to use and that's why no one in their right minds use it during get-out-of-town afternoon rush hours. But my theory is the reconfiguration of the intersection was just a decoy. Mayor Iko's real goal was to knock down those crappy slum-apartment-former-storefront-buildings that were a signature entry to the city. We all tend to get too close to the situation when we live around here, but let's face it, to the uninitiated entering our town, this stuff looked like what it really was -- urban blight.
It got to be an intersection issue because the city's trump card was eminent domain. To make a case for eminent domain, you'd have to make a case for a necessary public use -- the HAZARDOUS INTERSECTION. Now, because he's a planner by day, Mayor Iko ALSO would have liked to reconfigure the intersection, but he probably achieved 80 percent of his goal by buying and knocking down the ratty houses.
Even the crappy empty lot there looks better, but I know Mayor Al's crew has some beautification plans on tap.
But somebody's putting a paper bag over his head when he talks about the United Furniture Building being a waste of money. Hey, the port commission -- all pre-Iko appointees -- went along with this one. And as far as contaminated IKO property and problems with cleaning and rezoning, heck, Mayor Al did that with the Mason Run site, so what's the big deal?
Anyway, all these officials and exs should duke it out at the Loranger Pavilion cause there seems to be a lot of pent up hostility here leaking into the letters to the ediitor columns. Boy, I can't wait for the next mayoral debate.
Worrell will win it.
posted by The Observer at 11/26/2006 12:26:00 PM
2 Comments:
I agree with most of what you say, especially about Worrell winning the Mayoral race. I'm personally tired of the personality conflicts between Icoangeli and Cappuccilli, and how it has reflected on our City.
Looks like even the public is getting in on the editorial bashing of council (or at least one person on council). Not sure who Jeff Grz????? is but I agree with his letter in today's paper 11-29-06.
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