rolling the dice

Sigh. What did junior high kids do in the past, BEFORE the Internet, to amuse themselves? While I believe that criticism of a public figures performance, or lack of same, is fair game for this forum, I cant see any benefit in attacks of a personal nature in resolving the issues. It is interesting how those who call others names, etc. usually FORGET to sign their names tho. They use the anonymous nature of this platform in the EXACT SAME MANNER of those they accuse. Go figure. One of the most important issues at tonights council meeting was the annexation pamphlet, which extolls ALL the benefits that we will get and NONE of the drawbacks! Apparently the Council believes that issues like pollution cleanups, mitigation fees, questionable numbers, costs of policing and a new substation, and zoning are IRRELEVENT and IMMATERIAL. As they failed to do in the new gym issue, nothing CLOSE to DUE DILIGENCE has been done! Dotson asked for DERM to show up and explain the possible pollution issues but the City manager has faikled to produce anyone from DERM, TWICE. Why would we annex polluted property? First, we cant build on it, so we wont be collecting taxes. Second, we may very well be charged with the cleanup of those polluted areas if the previous owners are out of business. They have acknowledged that 27 sites are currently being cleaned up but we have NO assurances that there are no more polluted sites, or who will clean them up if they are found. We are just rolling the dice and HOPING there will be NO more pollution found. Thats BAD business, and poor management priciples. Dr. Mel P. Johnson