The Aerie
Just a few more hours and we're off for the four-day weekend.
Boy will I need it.
Yes, we're off to visit my birthmother and half-sister in beautiful
Davenport, Iowa, the cultural hub of the quad-cities area!
This week has continued the madness of last: I DID have a brief break
last night, and it was deeply appreciated (although I never made it to
the bath tub). Tonight I have a meeting at 7:00, after which, why, my
time is my own!
At least I ought to be able to get started on my book now. I can't
imagine next week being as busy as the last four have been.
The only other interesting news I've heard today is of this absurd
notion to NOT build a new downtown Minneapolis library, after having
torn down the old one and raised taxes for the new one. I think in
political parlance, this idea is what they call a "non-starter," but
nonetheless the politico's seem to be entertaining the idea.
Gary Schiff is "considering" it, the new (today) library director is
"weighing the options," and the press is giving it actual play.
Meanwhile, of course, Syd Hartman is sitting in some dim corner by
himself muttering about how we still need municipally-funded football
AND baseball stadiums. Good old Syd.
This whole fiscal crisis is rather striking. How did we get into this
mess? The Minnesota congress wants to blame Ventura's tax cuts, but
every city in the nation is in this quagmire. I don't know whether the
90's just lured every city planner into a paroxysm of false optimism,
or if the conservatives are leveraging the recession to justify
cutting anything and everything in the government portfolio of
services (except of course their own tax cuts). Either way, it's an
amazing situation. I just wish they'd get this stupid war over with so
that the economy could have a chance to recover.
Well, my 7:00 pm meeting just moved itself up to 6:00, so I'm off!
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Posted by Albatross at March 4, 2003 12:00 AM