Big Day in the Town
Some good news on the environment – I have mentioned that we have been working to protect the wetlands where they want to build a 160,000 square foot store in our small county. Â The developer (who is developing this on speculation) says that the wetlands isn’t really a wetlands so shouldn’t be protected. Â An independent firm was hired … one that our mayor hand picked. Â Our mayor has run on a platform of promising a discount store – no matter the cost to the environment. Great news!! Â The independent firm said that Wetlands 4 IS a wetland!!! So very good!! Â We shall see what happens now.
Tropical Eye, Digital © Diane Clancy
Today is also another big day in our town. Today is election day and we shall see if we can get some people into town offices that can take some creative action to get our town back on track. We have some real work to do (as many places do) to get the finances balanced and the schools doing great again. Â Unfortunately this same mayor had slashed art, sports and music when she first came in to office and lots of students then “choiced out” to other towns … and took the tax money with them. Â This school choice started in Massachusetts awhile ago and is not working for our town. All in all I am hopeful that we can get some people in office who are not running on their personal agendas!!
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I think it is great, as long as you don’t start running for office on top of everything else you do!
I posted about some good news last night, so it was especially gratifying to see that you had done the same!!! It is always good to hear about instances where Nature triumphs over development and/or greed. I will be watching the election returns from Greenfield to see what else materializes. I certainly hope the results please you since I know where your heart resides with regard to issues of equity and fairness…for all!
Love,
Tom
It occurs to me that it would be a good idea to share with your readers the good news I posted about last night. It concerned two elderly women from Portland, Raging Grannies insofar as their politics and acitivism are concerned who won their second court case in a year. In the first instance they were among five women “charged with misdemeanor criminal mischief for using red paint in April 2007 to write the number of U.S. service members killed in Iraq on the windows of a military recruitment center in Northeast Portland. A jury acquitted them in 30 minutes.” Then yesterday the charges against them for protesting the appearance of a tank at Portland’s Grand Floral Parade were dismissed. One of my favorite comments from one of the women was, “Any time a tank is in a city street, that should cause alarm in people, not generate applause and cheering.” She also said she was especially offended by the tank because it had roses and other flowers cascading out of the barrel of its gun.
And finally, I wanted to tell you, Diane, that I particularly enjoyed today’s “Tropical Eye”!
I loved the colors and the patterns.
Tom