Comments on: Lazy Sunday Thoughts

By: Michael J. Flint

Michael J. Flint — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:22:06 +0000

Jenny …

I suffer the same thing from him when I am taping for CATV … His head is always in the lens …

LOL

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:30:20 +0000

Sorry about that Jenny. My editor would have killed me if I hadn’t gotten some decent shots (I was kneeling, however). Looks like you got some good shots on your Flickr page anyway. If you’d like some hi rez of what I have, I would be happy to send them your way.

Patrick,

I’m sure Curtis and Jim will appreciate your backhanded compliment. I, too, would hate to see this degenerate into a Kent-like fracas with recriminations flying up and down Main Street.

Marshall,

I agree that no one voting method is necessarily better than another, but I think a referendum is more inclusive. It will be interesting to see which voting method is proposed for the transfer station.

By: jenny

jenny — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:09:55 +0000

I’ve been wanting to use this line from “There Will Be Blood” for weeks: “I drink your milkshake!” - in this case, you drink my milkshake - you hogged up the aisle and got all the best pictures of the dancers yesterday! I was reduced to shooting over your shoulder. However you got a very nice shot (my daughter is on the left in front.)

By: Marshall Miles

Marshall Miles — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:51:37 +0000

The only mistake I beleive the has been made, was to somehow label anattempt to petition for a referendum as somehow inferior to a town meeting vote by paper ballot. Both have their advantages, and both have some disadvantages, but BOTH represent one person, one vote, and BOTH are equally proper ways to tally votes. One is no better than the other, one is no less democratic than the other. I could agree with Curtis, in his despair of what an additional week or 10 days might mean to the project, but I will never agree that Jim Dresser, or anyone else is correct in stating that the town meeting vote is preferable to a referendum, or somehow more democratic than a referendum.

The right to petition for a referendum is just as worthy as the right to vote in a town meeting, period.

By: Patrick Sullivan

Patrick Sullivan — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:59:57 +0000

Terry -

You undoubtedly remember some of my off-the-record comments when I covered the firehouse saga in Kent a while back. They were hard to miss from two desks away, as I made them at top volume and maximum obscenity.

Salisbury voters might want to go back into the Journal’s archives to find out how NOT to go about building a new firehouse. The Kent story began ugly and steadily disimproved; a lot of people made a lot of unfortunate remarks and a considerable amount of ill-will was generated - for no good reason.

Whatever confusion exists in this situation is, I am quite sure, unintentional. I’ve known Jim Dresser all my life and Curtis Rand for quite a while, and the notion of them pulling off some grand deception is laughable. (They’re not that well organized, for starters.)

Salisbury voters should be grateful this thing is moving along briskly.