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To: Gondring
R-o-W is being sold off

Doubtful. Leased maybe.

26 posted on 08/25/2007 4:08:22 PM PDT by RightWhale (It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
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To: RightWhale

Don’t know where you are, but here it is being sold off at the same time they’re claiming eminent domain and grabbing other property. For example, when transportation changes have occurred, the argument went “we don’t need that r-o-w anymore, since we have the new route that will take all the traffic. Then they can sell it off to developers. Then, they find that the new transportation net is inadequate...

Rep. Paul is right that politicians like to have their ribbon-cuttings. About 15 years ago, I had my class do an analysis of building a dam versus installing a groundwater well field. Overwhelmingly, the well field was the better option. My question to the class: So...which of the following options do you think will be chosen? My punchline? “The Dam” Although they didn’t believe me at the time, it turned out I was right. A dam is a better ribbon-cutting ceremony than a well field.


61 posted on 08/26/2007 10:04:37 AM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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