Mayme
At 8:02 PM -0800 2/25/98, Jack wrote:
>Joan Berney, be careful what you wish for. Economic development is not the
>cure you think it is. Phoenix and L.A. have lots of jobs, but who would
>want to live there?
>
>You might think Palo Alto, Calif. has what Moscow and Pullman want, an elite
>university with great economic growth based on nonpolluting high-tech
>businesses (Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Intuit, Netscape, etc.). But I decided
>Moscow is a better, saner place to raise a family.
>
>Many of us could be making more money somewhere else, but we came here for
>other reasons. Let's not wreck it. I can imagine several qualitative
>improvements like the swimming pool, linear parks, Chipman Trail, and a
>multifunction community center in a renovated Whitworth Building. But major
>economic growth would threaten the quality of life that drew us here. If
>you pull in too many people, even the Garden of Eden would become a mess.
>
>Jack Porter