Comments by Barry Parr
February 04, 2009
Big Wave is also responsible for some controversial filling and grading near wetlands:
[the photos are no longer available, but the discussion is still quite interesting]
February 04, 2009
Darin's op-ed can be found here:
February 03, 2009
That's a good question, Carl. This appears to be the opinion of the board's counsel. However, it may not be the only option, particularly when this threatens to run on indefinitely.
Perhaps MWSD and GSD should ask their respective counsel to look into this matter.
February 01, 2009
I've had a difficult time reconciling the nonprofit, community service charter of MCTV with their behavior. Lately, I've found that their behavior makes more sense if you think of them as a family business. For example, cablecasting board meetings is a high-margin business for MCTV. That explains why: * Profitable board meetings dominate their primetime schedule. * MCTV produces little or no original programming that does not generate revenue for MCTV. * MCTV resisted for two years allowing other…
February 01, 2009
Vince, I'm having trouble understanding what you think should be done to get us where we need to be, and how you see this move by the Supervisors as a step to getting us there. It would help if you could keep it to one short paragraph. Not many folks have time to parse long narratives. I'll start: My goal is local self-government. I believe that this move by the Supervisors takes us in the wrong direction because it limits who we can vote for. The problems with the MCC are due to the fact that it…
January 31, 2009
My guess is the two biggest determinants of road quality are when the road was built and how good a job you did when you built it. And that quality of maintenance is necessary, buy no sufficient.
January 30, 2009
Two good points.
I'll also note that if you look at the rankings, that HMB has increased their score from 53 to 59 over the last three years.
January 30, 2009
No question that district elections also requires a larger Board of Supervisors to be really effective.
Proportional representation is an interesting idea. Thinking about how it would work politically makes my head spin.
I'm not sure if that's a good thing.
January 30, 2009
Ouch. Thanks. I should have read that story a little more closely. That says a lot about the quality of copy editing in Twenty First Century newspapers.
January 30, 2009
Doesn't anyone else find it staggering that to be on the Board of Supervisors you have to reach more voters than if you're running for Congress.
It's so expensive and the number of constituents so vast it's no wonder that the Supes are out of touch and that you have to be an insider to get on the board.
January 30, 2009
I have in fact removed at least one of these items from the beach my own self.
January 29, 2009
Darin: In my experience, rolling over for the guy with the power and expecting them to do right by you doesn't work. We're going to have to stand up and demand a voice in our destiny. I don't think siding with the Supes on the issue of who should represent us is a path to anything other than more of the same.
Kevin: your comment is unfair and unsupportable.
January 21, 2009
Darin's entitled to have an opinion without volunteering to serve. That's the whole point of my recent rants. I want everyone on the Midcoast to have an opinion about this, and I want them to have the opportunity to vote on it.
Kevin, of course, is ineligible as a resident of HMB. But it would be fun to see the MCC send him as a replacement for Ric.
January 20, 2009
However, Six Degrees of Kevin Barron is a much more difficult game.
January 20, 2009
Kevin, you should [look it up][1]. "Disinterested" means: > 1. unbiased by personal interest or advantage; not influenced by selfish > motives: a disinterested decision by > the referee. Darin was the only person to speak in favor of Rich Gordon's proposal that had neither a partisan nor financial axe to grind. That doesn't mean I think he's right or that his is the only opinion that matters. Just that I think he came to his conclusions from a relatively neutral starting position. [1]: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/disinterested
January 19, 2009
Actually, I'd momentarily forgotten that you'd spoken in favor of the proposed resolution, and I would describe you as a disinterested party. My apologies.
January 19, 2009
I didn't see any disinterested parties speaking. The supporters of the Supervisors' proposal were Charlie Gardner, Joel Farbstein, and a couple of contractor/developers whose names I didn't catch.
I'm not saying their opinions don't matter. I'm saying that the only forum that matters is the ballot box and the Supervisors continue to deny us access to that.
January 16, 2009
Ken, your comment "Please, someone with a demonstrable facility ... is out of line.
You could have made your point without being insulting.
January 13, 2009
Then let me phrase it differently.
Are you willing to allow the Supervisors exercise the power to choose who can represent you without even a protest, in the hope that at some time in the indefinite future they will grant the MCC more authority?
January 13, 2009
I understand how the Board of Supervisors wouldn't want anyone other than the BoS speaking on behalf of the Midcoast. My question is: *how anyone can defend that idea to the citizens of the Midcoast*?
The issue whether the Supes or Midcoast residents get to decide whether its representatives have a conflict of interest.
Are you willing to cede that power to the Supes in the hope that at some time in the indefinite future they will grant the MCC more authority?
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