Current path is a mere extension.

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "He huffed and he puffed and blew thehouse down": 

Sometimes, I wish there was traffic calming on Memory Lane. 

Posted by Anonymous to Our Town and Its Business at June 30, 2013 at 11:37 AM

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Memory Lane and the Current Path is  what  this  Blog is  about.  To  focus public attention on decsions by Council.

There is never enough time  in debate for intelligent analysis of decisions being made relative to lessons learned from the  past. 

There's enough time for Mr. Albino ,a real estate promoter, to return again and again and again  and like water on a stone, promote the sale of private real estate because the Mayor  views the scheme as divine inspiration. 

There is enough time for Councillors to ask questions that allow a ten minute limit on  presentations to be stretched to two hours of discussion. 

There's unlimited  time for Councillor  Gaertner to   endlessly repeat  questions and dispute answers given by staff, out of proportion to all other debate on any given  issue. 

Enough  time for the Mayor to invite the Chief Administrator to join the debate, to  push it along in the direction the Mayor wishes it to go but does not see  it as his role to  take it.

There is never enough time  for debate i to go in a direction the presiding member does  not wish it to go.

That's where a blog, any blog, is a useful probitive tool. 

If a verbal argument has no validity, it's  a hundred  times  less  persuasive  in writing. 

At the beginning of this term, I considered the gap in experience between myself and new Councillors. I  recognised the  difficulty .

I considered my options. Should I dumb myself down and pretend not to know what I know. 

I quickly discarded that option. I'm not good at pretending.   I am  a natural born smart ass. It is a part of my character that has plagued  me all of my life.  

But the people who vote for me know that about me.  They  vote for me anyway. I decided a long time ago, I had found my niche in life. 

So once again, Blog is my option. What I don't get time to say under the rules of debate  I can 

complete   and amplify further on the Blog.

Those who want to read it ,can . 

Those who don't, well, they don't have to.