Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Spinning into butter, letter to the editor

You'd be hard pressed to fit the width of a butter knife between the views of  the two runoff candidates for City Council.



How to choose? I am left with the issues which  we have consistently ignored for decades.  The issues of enabling entrepreneurial creativity for our young adults,  the issue of the Performing Arts Center  event horizon which has remained frozen in time for 36 years, the issue of caring for our aging population, the issue of  our collapsing infrastructure which threatens the very heart of our FIS history,  these are the issues I see as orphans which have been smothered by a surfeit of polemic and paucity of  will.  

A brewery passes for entrepreneurial encouragement. 



The Performing Arts Center is mentioned only when the RETT pot of gold looks fat enough to pilfer.  




If  half the seniors who voted in the last election needed assisted living how would they fit into the 15 apartments at  Whitcomb Terrace



Lift 1A, Lift 1A, Lift 1A….. ?



Aspen proves that money does not solve everything.  We need a focused leadership, a forward thinking leadership, a leadership which can break beyond the vicious circle of reactive legislation….



 …. to proactive governance.  The fact that we are facing the same problems of 10-20-30-40 years ago makes past strategies suspect. What new strategies do our two candidates have to offer which could get us out of our rut and move us forward?  





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