Yeah, WTF?! How dare they bring in jobs, industry, and construction at a time when the economy is looking the worse since either 1982 or 1949, depending on how you measure it.
We should oppose job creation during this recession, we don't want or need them, because there is the risk that the jobs might not stay around and all it would have done is nothing at all but give the unemployed pay checks during a period of time when they would have had none. Now is the time to demand impossible standards of employers, and be as picky as possible about the kind of jobs we want. Who needs jobs and industry when you got retirement, disability, food stamps, 401Ks to tap dry, and six months of unemployment benefits to rely on?
How dare our city council allow this to happen? Write your council person today, and let them know you support no construction, no jobs without a $20 an hour wage, no Wal-Mart, no jobs that consume water, no jobs that produce any pollution, no jobs that don't have fully paid Medical/Dental/Vision, and absolutely no jobs that don't require people with specific skills that people in the local community don't have, shall be allowed to come into, on, or near, Moscow or Latah. No way, we demand more.
And after your protest, perhaps you should go down to the Hawkins mall, or Wal-Mart Super Center and apply for a job instead of staying at home unemployed. Who knows, they might let you be a greeter.
Best Regards,
Donovan
--- On Sat, 3/7/09, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
From: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
Subject: [Vision2020] Walmart Gets Nod for Starting Work
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Saturday, March 7, 2009, 9:37 AM
Let me see if I have this right.
1. Walmart is going to build a supercenter in Pullman.
2. The Hawkins Companies is going to build a super-large mall just west
of the Idaho state line after buying water rights from the City of Moscow.
http://www.moscowcares.com/Washington_Water_Permit_020408.htm
http://www.moscowcares.com/Hawkins_water_Panel_030408.htm
3. While the city, the state, and the nation are victims to the largest
recession since 1929?
Sounds like a preamble to another tax-payer bailout three years hence.
Not to worry, Moscow. Councilmen Steed and Krauss have our best interests
at heart . . . or is that "at stake"?
Courtesy of today's (March 7, 2009) Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
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Walmart gets nod for starting work
Contractors ready for grading permit on Bishop Boulevard
By Hillary Hamm, Daily News staff writer
Dirt could soon start moving at the site of a future Walmart Supercenter
in Pullman.
Public Works Director Mark Workman has given a preliminary nod for
Walmart's Spokane-based contractors to take out an early grading permit,
which would allow dirt to be moved and utility work to begin at the Bishop
Boulevard site before a building permit is issued by the city.
"What it would do is kind of give them a head start in the early phases of
the project development ... so they can be doing that while they're still
fine-tuning their plans," he said. "It is good and smart on their
part.
The construction window on the Palouse is fairly narrow, and you want to
take advantage of as much of the season as you can."
People were on-site Friday staking out areas for geotechnical core
drilling and grading purposes.
Jennifer Spall, the Washington Walmart public affairs manager, said she's
not sure when official work on the building will start.
"That's the million dollar question," she said. A formal
ground-breaking
is expected sometime this year, Spall said, with completion in 2011.
Pullman Mayor Glenn Johnson said the start of the project is good for the
city and its residents, too. Not only have building permits been down
substantially in the last year, but the city needs the sales tax revenue,
and area residents want the convenience and low prices.
"It comes as good news for the community and our budget considerations and
the people that need the low prices Walmart can offer," he said.
"From a
city standpoint, it comes as very good news."
Pat Garrett, owner of Pullman Building Supply, said progress on the site
has gotten started a little too late for him to move forward with the
expansion and relocation of his North Grand Avenue store. He said his
store - which was going to be built on dirt excavated from the Walmart
property - could have opened in November if the store's construction
hadn't been stalled four years due to a legal battle led by the Pullman
Alliance for Responsible Development.
He's also not complaining. Garrett said the current economics led him to
recently yank the reins on the project, despite Walmart moving ahead. Even
if his store had opened last year, he may have regretted it now because of
the slow construction and economy in town.
"It's important that construction is going on to support an investment
of
that size. And there's not that type of construction slated to start in
2009 ... but hopefully there is in '10," he said. "My full
intention is to
jump right back on board, but starting it this coming spring with Walmart
is not in the cards right now."
Workman said Walmart has not formally applied for building permits, though
they're expected to soon after the grading permit is issued. Activity on
the site is limited to geotechnical core drilling until then, which will
alert builders to what's underground on the site, such as rock and ground
water elevations.
Workman said a grading permit typically is issued only when a grading
plan - which outlines how the earth will be moved - is submitted, along
with an erosion and sediment control plan and construction inspection
program, which ensures that the site will be heavily monitored during the
process.
"Oftentimes a project is approved as a complete package ... but it's
not
necessary to do that," he said.
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Seeya at the Intolerista Wingding, Moscow.
http://www.MoscowCares.com/Wingding
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
"For a lapsed Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist
Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go
to work."
- Roy Zimmerman
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