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Best Environmental NewsNo C.A.P. Crap! READER'S PICK: Have we mentioned lately how grateful we are to our city leaders for relenting and withdrawing that awful Central Arizona Project water from our lives a few years back? It means our children can grow up without third eye-sockets and tails, our pipes will no longer burst and spew horror-flick fluids, and our plants won't glow in the dark. Yes, it would be a real shame if C.A.P. water were ever reintroduced into this community as something we were expected to, like, actually drink. A politician would have to be nuts even to hint at something like that. Ha-ha-ha. READERS' POLL RUNNER-UP: No More Ed Moore. He's no longer around to bend Pima County government to his iron--if somewhat twisted--will. No more weird legal schemes, bullying, juvenile name-calling, or costly reworkings of the county's organizational chart behind closed doors before commencing the unannounced firings of blameless bureaucrats who're only trying to do their jobs. No more buying million-dollar dump sites from friends and then not being able to open them. Sigh. We miss Ed Moore, one of our most colorful supervisors ever. Of course we weren't good enough for him. He deserved a better constituency--Tombstone in the 1880s perhaps, or certainly Boston in 1775. Some guys are just born too big for their times...which may be why our fearless former supe is masterminding a bedroom community called Casas Adobes. (They're stilling haggling over whether to identify themselves as "Casans" or "Adobeans.")
A REAL SCREAM: Bond approval for the Open Space initiative:
When the Greater Tucson Chamber of Horrors, er, Commerce and
the Southern Arizona Home Builders Ass. come out against an idea,
you just know it's gotta have real merit. Thus voters were quick
to approve this year's proposal to spend umpity-ump millions to
acquire open space in and around the city. Yes, we can understand
the Chamber and the Builders Ass. not wanting to tie up a few
valuable tract-housing lots with something as unproductive as
saguaros, ironwood trees, cute little Bambies and feathery creatures.
But, hey, the voters have spoken: Quality of life requires sacrifice.
So comply we must, even if it's not the most efficient use of
our tax dollars (which, as the Chamber and Builders Ass. have
consistently maintained, obviously should be going to subsidize
the businesses of deserving rich people).
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