Glenn,
You originally published claims that 311 was designed to serve the
tourist industry, and that Free Library personnel were being cut to
staff this new center.
I contacted a direct source of data on 311 at the Mayor's Office to
check these claims. Both turned out to be false.
Now you
Definition: The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a
person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or
misrepresented version of that position.
Warning! This poster, Tony West, engages the straw man fallacy. Warning!
Ignore this barking cheese
Glenn,
On 1/1/09 you posted, writing about the 311 system:
This is a taxpayer subsidy for the tourist industry. Nothing else is
believable.
311 does not actually function in the way you state above, which was your
actual position two days ago.
-- Tony West
Definition: The Straw Man
Liz has stressed the potential problem of smashing the setback requirements in
residential, R5, zoning. Safety does seem to be the intent of setback
requirements, and not something that can be simply dismissed as an aesthetic
consideration when granting zoning variances.
The spot zoning
Dear hotel opponents,
I’ve attended nearly all hearings for the Campus Inn studying the tactics of
the developers and the commissions serving them. After reading extensively
about zoning, the tactics going into the upcoming ZBA are apparent to me.
The developers are going to attempt to shift
Last night I finally got a chance to see this incredibly good production from
Curio Theatre! Acting, staging, lighting -- all wonderful!
Enter on the Baltimore Avenue side, 7 pm curtain. This is the LAST performance!
Roger Harman
The fate of the 11 libraries is now before City Council. Mayor Nutter had
to make some tough decisions to balance the City's budget, and the library
closing choice seems to have been a particularly poor one. But, Mayor Nutter
is
not the villain here. Our city's tax structure is a more
It's how the City will operate in the future. For that, we need fair and appropriate taxation. Those of us who can afford to pay more, will probably not be happy living in a city where we have spare cash, but some folks living nearby don't have libraries or other city services. We need to think
Glenn,
While the fact that the city needs additional revenue is obvious, any changes
to the property tax structure have to be made with careful deliberation as to
the consequences of dramatic increases. A property tax has the potential to be
very oppressive, because it taxes an asset whose
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