"Same Fight, different town" By Beth Dalbey (former editor of Fairfield Ledger) http://www.businessrecord.com/main.asp?SectionID=40&H=0 "Every community has them � people who make up their minds on issues before they've heard all the facts. For a moment, I thought I was back in Fairfield, covering the contentious issue of airport expansion. Fairfield's one of those lucky rural communities with lots of new businesses with a global reach, and it makes sense that some of the founders of those businesses would want to use their own corporate jets, rather than shuttle to Des Moines or Cedar Rapids to catch a commercial flight. Their arguments against the airport were the same ones proffered in Dallas County. It takes farmland out of production, the economics are fuzzy, it benefits only a few and burdens all taxpayers. In Fairfield, there was a strong cultural bias against many of those backing the airport because they happened to practice Transcendental Meditation, and in Dallas County, there appears to be a strong sense that airport supporters "are one of `them' and not one of `us.'"(more at link) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
