>
> As far as growth and why we are growing, look at what is happening with the
> world population. Can we really isolate ourselves? Maybe we should all
> chip in some time and energy to providing family planning services to our
> corner of the world to have a small impact on the growing numbers of
> people.
And perhaps it is time for the city and county officials to get off of
there collective butts and find a way, without involving policing
**literally** to give the young people of this town something to do
other than drinking **a major contributor to population growth** and
hanging out at the not so friendly friendship square. Perhaps if those
who are full-time employees of city and county weren't so overpaid for an
under done job we could afford to build a
recreational/entertainment/refuge for this 'communities' youth!!!!!!!
>
> I have a hard time with the hometowner vs. immigrant discussion. I grew up
> in a small town in the Midwest. I liked it, but as a child had no choice
> when my parents decided to move to a larger city. After college, rather
> than moving back to my "hometown" and being unemployed, I moved west to
> accept a job. I eventually found a community that gave me both qualities I
> wanted: a job and that same sense of small-town community that I
> remembered when I was a child. No I was not born in Moscow, but all my
> children have been born here. This is our home. I wish to retain the
> qualities of Moscow that make Moscow a good place to live.
One of the nicest qualities of Moscow has and is daily being demolished
by new housing developments. If people insist on building there houses
on the hills why not dig down or through? The view they seem to want all
to themselves would still be there without those surrounding having to
look at a sore thumb!!!!>
> Most importantly, I wish to retain an open and questioning mind when it
> comes to issues that appear to divide us as a community.
>
As you can see I am not very open minded in this particular matter. I am
tired of my small town being turned into a yuppie colony.
Kay