[Vision2020] 10-04-05 Daily News: LTTE by Lois Blackburn

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From:  Moscow-Pullman Daily News, 01-04-05 

'Sinister agenda' a real concern 


Gerald Weitz cares about Moscow, has some very good ideas, and has put his energy and money behind them. He worries about making Moscow an attractive environment for good business. He has a valid concern for our need for vocational-technical training in the high school. He has provided a space for the alternative high school so that it could have its own building. He has served on the Moscow School Board (although with a tendency to take his marbles and go home when his ideas were ignored). He supported the Mayor's Advisory Committee for the 1912 Building when that group worked so hard to get the 1912 Center restoration under way. 

However, he sometimes behaves like a small boy, lost with his rifle in the dark, firing away at the slightest noise or shadow. In his recent letter to the editor attempting to justify his call for a recall of half of the City Council, he gave a detailed list of his concerns about education, which is the responsibility of the Moscow School District rather than Linda Pall, Nancy Chaney, and John Dickinson. 

Weitz also referred to "discrimination against parochial elementary kids here in Moscow." Presumably, this refers to his original justification for wanting a recall: these council members asked St. Mary's School to go back to the drawing board on their gym plan, which had required a conditional use permit and a list of variances. This was not "discrimination against parochial students;" this was simply a request that the project be scaled to follow the zoning requirements. My real concern is that some group (not St. Mary's) with a sinister agenda has put Weitz up to this nonsense. I hope the community has the sense to ignore it. 

Lois Blackburn 

Moscow 
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