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<DIV><FONT size=4><FONT size=4>From: <EM>Moscow-Pullman Daily News</EM>,
01-04-05</FONT>
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<H2>'Sinister agenda' a real concern <BR></H2>
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<P>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.
<P>However, <STRONG><FONT size=5>he sometimes behaves like a small boy, lost
with his rifle in the dark, firing away at the slightest noise or
shadow.</FONT></STRONG> 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.
<P>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.
<P>Lois Blackburn
<P>Moscow </P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>