These columns appear on governing.com, and I thought some might be interested in this recent "old" one, as named in the subject line.
http://www.civic-strategies.com/resources/issues/downtown_renewal.htm "You want to get to the point where (a company) wouldn't think of locating an office building outside downtown any more than you'd want to walk into an office and light up a cigarette," he says. --- While on that page, you might enjoy the one on Fargo, North Dakota. An excerpt: "People think we're up here on the bleak plains, snowed in eight months of the year. People want to think that way about Fargo," the mayor said. "I tell them the movie was not a documentary." For a contrary view, see the Onion from a few weeks ago for the story on the big continuous strip mall that extended miles and miles west from Fargo. I live farther away now, but when I used to go to the Manitoba Marathon each June, Fargo was one big right turn out of Minnesota onto lonely I-29 en route to Winterpeg, and there was nothin' out there on the eastern North Dakota landscape, except maybe that series of billboards informing travellers how many Lutherans live within 50 miles of each sign. Billboards and sugar beet refineries. I suppose Fargo could have changed by now.... Now go have a beer, Bob Paolino UWCU members: Please vote this month for your new board. (Hint: Only one candidate mentioned beer.) "Homer, why don't you get one of those hands-free phones? It's the next best thing to paying attention to the road." --Barney, The Simpsons ( ) ASCII ribbon campaign X against HTML e-mail: / \ Friends don't send friends HTML-bloated messages! A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
