Waste, Wicked Waste.

Disclaimer:  everything contained in this blog is MY OPINION.  Every attempt is made to present the truth through actual facts or to identify statements which are in doubt;  otherwise there will be no deliberate presentation of gossip, rumor, or innuendo which can't be proven as factual.

Thanks to the Electra PD for doing drive-by checks during my family's recent absence. (No, this doesn't mean I approve of Johnny Morris's and the entire former police department's  ugly and unlawful treatment at the hands of city authorities, or that I agree with the current situation.  It means that I give credit where credit is due.)

I just returned from  a small city which is doing a Green Project.  By sorry comparison,  Electra at sunset with its deserted streets and empty buildings and neglected houses, and knowing that nothing practical is being done with them is both sad and disgusting.
When I returned to Electra about sixteen years ago,  I  had been successfully writing grants and doing green projects for a number of years.  I had a lot of knowledge and contacts that were useful in several fields.
Foolishly, I imagined that this expertise would be welcomed here,
Let me interject here and now that I rarely wrote letters to the editor for the first five years after my return, so if you're looking for something to blame, that ain't it.
I went to the city administrator and the mayor and the city attorney with ideas for architectural reclamation here.  There's a whoopy gob of money in that if it's done right and Electra was a prime candidate for it.
They would not even listen.  Their response was what I've come to think of as 'same song, second verse:'  with no apparent knowledge of what architectural reclamation actually was, they simply said, "it won't work."  The first verse of that song is, "it won't do any good."
How did they know it wouldn't when they'd never even heard of it?  What would they have lost by giving it a try? They refused to give it the least consideration-something for which Electra has become infamous:  rejecting projects and ideas out of hand.
Why?  Do they feel their power and control is so threatened that they have to shoot down anything that doesn't originate with them?  Are they afraid someone besides them will get credit and maybe have their pictures in the newspaper?  Could it be they're just flat jealous?  Or too damn lazy?
There have been and still are, people in the town who have the knowledge, experience, and contacts to make a positive difference,  Most have simply taken their considerable talents elsewhere. I'm one of them.
In the past sixteen years, there have been at least a couple of dozen people probably more experienced and knowledgeable than I am who offered to help Electra, and they've either been insulted,  ignored, or had their ideas kyped.  They won't do it again.
The authorities in this town need an attitude adjustment in the worst way.
Think about it.

7. Who, when he/she gets caught out, apologizes and then turns right around and does it again?

Anita Huguelet McMurtrie
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