A GOOD YEAR FOR USExcept for a few errant mentions, we were able to stay out of the local media for most of the year, and we were thus able to focus more attention on improvement.
As we go into 2011, we have high hopes that the Westside will finally reach the tipping point toward improvement.
As we've written before, we live in a world of no certainties; only probabilities.
And, in this vein, we think it more probable than not that Jim Righeimer may be the spark plug on the City Council to bring in real improvement. We think it's in his DNA.
We also think it more probable than not that Steve Mensinger will be appointed to take Katrina Foley's seat on the Council, and that it is more probable than not that Mensinger will also be a mover and shaker for improvement.
There is a synergy that can exist among people when the right other people are added to the mix.
We think it is more probable than not that such a synergy for improvement will exist on the Council and that the addition of Righeimer and Mensinger will take what has sometimes been a pansy, weak sister council over the years and make it more robust.
Or, in more mundane terms, we think it is probable that the new Council may be more activist and do more than just show up for meetings to rubber stamp whatever staff has put in front of them.
We think it is probable that the new Council will grab the steering wheel and take over the gas pedal from staff, and drive this city in the direction that will be better for all citizens who live here.
[Watch now as a local pansy, who lacks all vigor and virility, purses his blogger lips and writes something such as "Yeah, they'll drive the city off a cliff." Ho hum.]
# # #Those are our opinions. You know they're right.
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