I thought I was fairly savvy about this stuff, but I thought you had coined the word "grasstops" and was going to commend you for the invention until I looked it up and saw it was an actual thing. So instead I'll just thank you for teaching me something (as you often do).
People are being SO vicious towards Tempe residents online!! Like, over the top hateful for voting down an arena for one of the least successful major league sports franchises ever.
I too loved the word "grasstops" but loved the analysis even more. Is a progressive really a progressive if the deals s/he/they put together don't involve public input? And how in touch with the voters are politicians, even local ones? In general I have respect for most members of the Tucson City Council but the arguments against this by one of them were quite persuasive. I vaguely realized that the right wing of the city didn't like this deal for different reasons than mine, and had a very vague hope that this would go down by just such a mirage coalition of crazies on the right with anti-capitalists of any stripe. Lets hope the Council learns something (sort of a rarity for many politicians i think) and strikes a much harder deal with a company that is surely far more interested in the welfare of its shareholders than its ratepayers.....(and why not?! The "tucson" in TEP is just a figurehead11am I wrong? isn't the parent company Canadian)
I thought I was fairly savvy about this stuff, but I thought you had coined the word "grasstops" and was going to commend you for the invention until I looked it up and saw it was an actual thing. So instead I'll just thank you for teaching me something (as you often do).
Tom Horne, destroying public education one word at a time.
Very enjoyable AZ Agenda. Keep up the good work!
People are being SO vicious towards Tempe residents online!! Like, over the top hateful for voting down an arena for one of the least successful major league sports franchises ever.
I too loved the word "grasstops" but loved the analysis even more. Is a progressive really a progressive if the deals s/he/they put together don't involve public input? And how in touch with the voters are politicians, even local ones? In general I have respect for most members of the Tucson City Council but the arguments against this by one of them were quite persuasive. I vaguely realized that the right wing of the city didn't like this deal for different reasons than mine, and had a very vague hope that this would go down by just such a mirage coalition of crazies on the right with anti-capitalists of any stripe. Lets hope the Council learns something (sort of a rarity for many politicians i think) and strikes a much harder deal with a company that is surely far more interested in the welfare of its shareholders than its ratepayers.....(and why not?! The "tucson" in TEP is just a figurehead11am I wrong? isn't the parent company Canadian)