[Vision2020] Sell-Outs: Senator Gary Schroeder and Moscow City

[Paul Rumelhart]

I am a Moscow native, for whatever that's worth.  Technically, I moved 
here from St. Maries when I was five.  Hopefully that still counts.  I 
even left for two years and came back. 

Now that we have established my bonafides, I'd like to say that I, too, 
don't wish to see Moscow turn into one long strip mall.  I don't mind a 
few smallish malls, they can be convenient.  But I don't wish to see 
them on every block. 

However, the key point here is that the mall that we've all been 
discussing that pertains to the water issue is in another State - 
therefore we don't have much say if any in it's construction.  The only 
thing we can do is make an informed decision about water rights.  Like 
it or not, most of the Moscow/Pullman corridor is in Washington State. 

You act like I'm trying to poison your way of life or something.  I'm 
just looking for the best choice that fits the realities involved here.  
I could be wrong and my opinion could be worthless.  However, my current 
thinking is that we are damned if we do and damned if we don't - so we 
might as well try to make the best of it.

Paul

Tom Hansen wrote:
> Exactly.
>
> Although I am not a Moscow native, I fell in love with Moscow when I first 
> transferred to UI from North Idaho College in 1992.  It was the sense of 
> community consciousness/security and that "down home" feeling of "the 
> neighborhood" that was, and still is, prevalent in Moscow; the same sense 
> and feeling I hadn't experienced since growing up in Los Angeles in the 
> late 50s and early- to mid-60s.  Like I had told the Daily News when they 
> did a "Sidewalk Series" (or something like that) on me last year . . . "I 
> am going to die of old age in Idaho."
>
> http://www.dnews.com/archived-story/Local/81880/
>
> Why I selected to retire from the Army in Idaho . . .
>
> Simple.  My wife was born just outside Coeur d'Alene and pretty much grew 
> up in Moscow.  That's her (Rodna Moore) on page 53 of the 1965 Bear Tracks 
> MHS yearbook.
>
> Just for memory's sake of Moscow over the years, crank up your speakers 
> for . . .
>
> "The Way We Were - Memories of Moscow, Idaho Through the Years"
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfAnRhCU35A
>
> Don't let Moscow degenerate to a series of If-you've-seen-one-you've-seen-
> em-all strip malls.  You're better than that, Moscow.
>
> Seeya at the Intolerista Wingding, Moscow.
> http://www.MoscowCares.com/Wingding
>  
> Tom Hansen
> Significant Other of Rodna Moore-Hansen (MHS '66)
>
>  
>   
>> EXACTLY!     (I grew up in the Los Angeles area. Cathy)
>>
>>
>> In response to Garrett's post below:
>>
>> "I grew up in an area that sprawled out in strip malls. Every time I 
>>     
> visit 
>   
>> my folks where they live now, there are new strip malls. That's what's 
>> coming to the corridor. Personally, I dread that, as it will change the 
>> flavor of this area while in my mind taking away from the value of what 
>>     
> the 
>   
>> Palouse is. Why do we have to become like Everywhere, USA? Why can't we 
>> have leaders who are willing to plan rationally how this area grows, 
>>     
> rather 
>   
>> than seemingly let it become retail strip mall hell?"
>>
>>
>>     
>
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