Accountability!....people want accountability!...when they're talking about public school teachers, that is. But, what about highway engineers?....When MDOT's highway engineers screw up so bad that traffic gridlocks and people get injured or killed in car crashes, do we ask for the same draconian measures we ask of the Public School system? Take their licence to practice engineering away?...shut down or even "reform" MDOT? Privatize the highways? Take the funding away? .....nope, nope, nope and nope...heck, we give them even MORE money!!!..maybe like Lynnell says, it's because teachers are mostly gals and engineers are mostly guys...who knows...
Anyways, here is MY plan to build more accountability into the system.... ************* HONOR THE NAYSAYERS! On every beautiful, functional structure in Minneapolis is a plaque proudly listing the public officials who had a hand in approving the building of it. Unfortunately, there are no such plaques for the naysaying public officials who voted against ,ugly and or wasteful structures such as the LSGI or the proposed stadium. I say it sometimes takes MORE courage to vote against a project than to vote for it. I say let's honor these responsible naysayers with plaques on the site where the boondoggle was to be built. I also think that plaques should be affixed to completed boondoggles like the intersection of Lake and Hiawatha that identify who voted for and who didn't vote for them. Maybe there should be plaques on the sites of demolished buildings that say, for instance "On the site of this awful wasteland of parking lots once stood the historic Gateway District and here is a list of the folks responsible for destroying it ..." The next time someone, says in frustration, "Who the heck allowed that horrendous thing to be built?!" they should be able to check the plaque. Ken Avidor Kingfield _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
