The Equity Commission is such an embarrassment. I'm glad you gave the context about Jane Grover. She was always a smart and sensible voice on the council so I was curious how she would react to this stunt. If it were me, I probably wouldn't have attended or just left when Ruggie gave her legal opinion, but Jane is much more polite than I…
The Equity Commission is such an embarrassment. I'm glad you gave the context about Jane Grover. She was always a smart and sensible voice on the council so I was curious how she would react to this stunt. If it were me, I probably wouldn't have attended or just left when Ruggie gave her legal opinion, but Jane is much more polite than I am.
The Commission is indicative of the vacuous performative politics that plagues this town.
A few months ago they were discussing the lack of affordable housing and you have a member of the commission loudly decrying the situation who at the same time is renting out a house in the 2nd ward for $650 a night on AirBnB!
The Fifth Ward school is the biggest and most reckless example of performative politics at all costs--lets bankrupt the district and degrade the educational experiences for kids to build a White Elephant whilst we are in a state of enrollment decline. Why are we doing it? To restore some nostaligic vision for a small number of people who don't like that their neighborhood has become more diverse.
I will say ... given that we had 130 public comments yesterday that there is clearly some need to have a platform where community members can discuss these issues in a public setting using their real names that is not a Facebook group within the bounds that come with rules of order, etc.
I still don’t understand the logical connection between having an opinion and needing a government-sponsored forum to express it. Church? Synagogue? Street corner? Your (or my) dining room? Sure! But government….
Yeah, I don't know the answer to this. I agree that I don't think it's local government responsibility but I also don't know what it should be. Our federal representatives have no interest in being part of these discussions and we're all just left to yelling into the void/facebook. Just more of an observation from me than a suggestion, I guess. Something to think about.
The Equity Commission is such an embarrassment. I'm glad you gave the context about Jane Grover. She was always a smart and sensible voice on the council so I was curious how she would react to this stunt. If it were me, I probably wouldn't have attended or just left when Ruggie gave her legal opinion, but Jane is much more polite than I am.
The Commission is indicative of the vacuous performative politics that plagues this town.
A few months ago they were discussing the lack of affordable housing and you have a member of the commission loudly decrying the situation who at the same time is renting out a house in the 2nd ward for $650 a night on AirBnB!
The Fifth Ward school is the biggest and most reckless example of performative politics at all costs--lets bankrupt the district and degrade the educational experiences for kids to build a White Elephant whilst we are in a state of enrollment decline. Why are we doing it? To restore some nostaligic vision for a small number of people who don't like that their neighborhood has become more diverse.
I will say ... given that we had 130 public comments yesterday that there is clearly some need to have a platform where community members can discuss these issues in a public setting using their real names that is not a Facebook group within the bounds that come with rules of order, etc.
I still don’t understand the logical connection between having an opinion and needing a government-sponsored forum to express it. Church? Synagogue? Street corner? Your (or my) dining room? Sure! But government….
Yeah, I don't know the answer to this. I agree that I don't think it's local government responsibility but I also don't know what it should be. Our federal representatives have no interest in being part of these discussions and we're all just left to yelling into the void/facebook. Just more of an observation from me than a suggestion, I guess. Something to think about.