BAYLOR: Take my city — please?Amazingly, others among us believe that the best way of coping with the sewer utility’s financial crisis is to take every last cent of the city’s economic development money, both now and for decades into the future, and use it as a subsidy for today’s rates. My 3rd district councilman, Steve Price, suggested exactly this approach, aloud, last week.
New Albany is a state of mind … but whose? Since 2004, we’ve been observing the contemporary scene in this slowly awakening old river town. If it’s true that a pre-digital stopped clock is right twice a day, when will New Albany learn to tell time?
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Today's Tribune column: "Take my city — please?"
When failure is the mantra, then there's only one way to make the prophecy self-fulfilling.
If I were a bondholder, I'd come get it now. What current evidence is there that would reassure them about recouping their money otherwise?
ReplyDeleteI have a post in reply to "Take My City" that's a take on our city in other words (fairytale format). However, it is too long.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who would like to read my Fractious Fractured Fairytale about NAMU and our sewer system, please send me e-mail at kat330@gmail.com. For "Rocky and Bullwinkle" fans (if anyone here is old enough), it will be a fun reminiscence.
Kathleen