[Vision2020] Just Cleaning the Air

[g. crabtree]

Hansen, can you really not understand the difference between "CONTRIBUTE 
OVER $2 MILLION ANNUALLY TO THE LOCAL ECONOMY" [Your emphasis], and the 
students spending $2 million downtown? Perhaps you should not only ask Mr. 
Atwood to read it to you, but also give you a few tips on reading 
comprehension and how money circulates in a community. What the students 
spend downtown is a small subset of what NSA contributes to the local 
economy.

gc
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 7:23 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] Just Cleaning the Air


> Greetings Visionaires -
>
> In Comb-Over Courtney's Brainless Log (BLog) at:
>
> http://right-mind.us/blogs/moscoweducation/archive/2006/03/29/42611.aspx
>
> he states:
>
> "A Hasty Reply
>
> Joan Opyr Joan Opyr has hastily thrown together her reply to last night's
> Conditional Use Permit decision in favor of NSA.
>
> I need to disabuse Joan that a claim was made that NSA students spend $2
> million downtown. That was a rumor fabricated on Vision2020 (like so many
> other rumors around Moscow).
>
> The report substantiated that NSA is worth $2 million to Moscow; not that
> the students spend $2m downtown."
>
> I could simply write this off as ignorant, uninformed blather from the 
> BLog
> (something prevalent in virtually all of his postings), but then he 
> attacked
> a friend with a weapon he is all too familiar with; lies.
>
> I recommend, encourage, invite, direct your attention, . . . whatever it
> takes for the fine Moscow citizenry to read the letter signed by NSA's
> Honorary Executive Vice President for Administration and Advancement Bob
> Hieronymus (and distributed to various businesses in Moscow) at:
>
> http://www.tomandrodna.com/NSA/hieronymus_letter.htm
>
> Your attention is particularly invited to the fourth and fifth paragraphs
> that read:
>
> "If the clock were turned back, and someone stood before the Board of
> Adjustment proposing to invest more than a million dollars into a vacant
> downtown building, bring a hundred or more customers a day into downtown 
> 32
> weeks out of the year, take up fewer parking spaces than any previous
> occupant of that building, create 17 new full-time jobs, CONTRIBUTE OVER 
> $2
> MILLION ANNUALLY TO THE LOCAL ECONOMY [my emphasis], create new commercial
> business space within the building, and provide a harmonious use entirely
> consistent with the Comprehensive Plan, we trust the board would have 
> found
> that such a use was beneficial to the community.
>
> It is five years later - that someone is New Saint Andrews College - and
> that is exactly what we have done."
>
> However, Comb-Over, if you are struggling with your ability to read the
> English language, perhaps you would like NSA President Roy Atwood to read 
> it
> to you (as he did at the BOA meeting):
>
> http://www.tomandrodna.com/NSA/Atwood_Quote.mp3
>
> Just setting the record straight, C-O.
>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Just Another Intolerista Liberal Elitista Diversity-Cleansing
> Religion-Persecuting Wacko Nutjob Loose in the Palouse Doing What Comes
> Natural
>
>
> "If I wanted to overhear every tedious scrap of brain static rattling 
> around
> in your head, I'd read your blog."
>
> - Bill Maher
>
>
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