There's an old saying: "When elephants make love, the grass gets trampled."
Without grass the love-happy elephants will starve. When politicians, big corporations and institutions that depend on corporate funding make expansion deals, the neighborhoods get trampled. When the politicians, corporations and institutions finish their expansion plans...after they've built their big boxes and high-flying fly-ways and "ellipse-abouts" and taxed us to pay for them ....they might find that the residents and small businesse-owners who fix up old homes, and make their neighborhoods safe and nice places to live and work in ....have moved away. Our elected officials shouldn't expect that people will forever put up with living in an "urban sacrifice zone" AND pay high taxes...they'll move to greener pastures....without so many horny elephants. Ken Avidor STRIDE Minneapolis _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:mpls@;mnforum.org Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
