As it turned out, their analysis of their electorate was more prescient than mine. On America's birthday, that's a fact worth acknowledging but not celebrating.
Well Tomi! you won the jackpot for frustrated columnists everywhere! Problem is I've heard the same arguement forever! The DOGD or what ever it was you determined is exactly right. Wyoming is on to something. Every two years, during federal elections? Let's do it! Oh wait, the school board needs money right now, Cascade needs a 40 million dollar full service hospital to be paid for by 700 or so home owners? You see, if you do it every 2 years some of these snake oil charmers will have to think and put forth realistic plans! Even worse, some folks will have to pay attention and figure out what is happening! I think you are on to something. When it comes to legislation, if someone is doing it right and it works, use it, don't change it? Just me venting as usual.
Dan, regular venting is to the mind what regular exercise is to the body. Thanks for reading. I'm really more baffled than frustrated, and have been so for all of my professional life. I struggle to fathom why local civics is so tedious to so many. In the future, I'm going to do a series of posts on tax initiatives: what was spent and what the ROI to the public actually was...what was promised and what was accomplished. It won't be a total downer. Public investment is essential and some of it is well managed. But a fair amount of it conscripts the general public into paying for the ambitions/standards of special interest groups. And I just marvel that over 70% of the local electorate, on average, just can't be bothered with that expensive fact.
Well Tomi! you won the jackpot for frustrated columnists everywhere! Problem is I've heard the same arguement forever! The DOGD or what ever it was you determined is exactly right. Wyoming is on to something. Every two years, during federal elections? Let's do it! Oh wait, the school board needs money right now, Cascade needs a 40 million dollar full service hospital to be paid for by 700 or so home owners? You see, if you do it every 2 years some of these snake oil charmers will have to think and put forth realistic plans! Even worse, some folks will have to pay attention and figure out what is happening! I think you are on to something. When it comes to legislation, if someone is doing it right and it works, use it, don't change it? Just me venting as usual.
Dan, regular venting is to the mind what regular exercise is to the body. Thanks for reading. I'm really more baffled than frustrated, and have been so for all of my professional life. I struggle to fathom why local civics is so tedious to so many. In the future, I'm going to do a series of posts on tax initiatives: what was spent and what the ROI to the public actually was...what was promised and what was accomplished. It won't be a total downer. Public investment is essential and some of it is well managed. But a fair amount of it conscripts the general public into paying for the ambitions/standards of special interest groups. And I just marvel that over 70% of the local electorate, on average, just can't be bothered with that expensive fact.