The Gib Armstrong retirement thing sort of amazed me. We’re waiting, of course, for Scott Boyd to jump into the race - after saying last month that “I’ve really turned my attention to trying to move a very positive agenda in the House, and I’m focusing 100 percent of my effort there.”
Methinks we’ll see a […]

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Can’t resist. As per the discussion in this thread, while saying up front that Artie See may have a valid point:
Ever hear of Godwin’s Law?
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
On TalkBack, call it “Buckwalter’s Law.” (And I tell no tales out of school here, […]

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Artie See has an interesting post up at his site from yesterday getting into the idea of economic development - specifically, how much of it the convention center project has to generate if it is going to qualify as a “success”:
The sole purpose of this project is “economic development”. “Economic development” is defined as creating […]

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Had the thought as I drove by the convention center site on the way in this morning that there’s been relatively little discussion of the merits/drawbacks of the convention center from a labor standpoint.

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Editor’s note: Way long. You’ve been warned. 
Okay Artie, I’m game.

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