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January 7, 2007
Council's shake-up of Board of Appeals sparks new optimism
Normally I leave the environmental blogging to Dianne, because she's actually got a good sense of the subject and a whole lot more interest. I mostly just love the technology associated with environmentalism. While I can plant trees and grass with the rest of them, I'd much rather be indoors away from the monstrous little critters who would happily eat me while I'm trying to save their habitat. When I think of a quiet walk in the woods, it always involves an asphalt path and 3 feet of mowed area on each side so I don't have to get too close to "nature". This kind of talk makes Dianne's head hurt, but I'm perfectly happy to save the environment for as long as I don't have to get near it except under the most rare of circumstances.
Anyway, this is one of those situations were Dianne's world and my world sort of crossed. Dianne was livid to discover that some Board of Appeals had approved what can only be described as a desecration of Little Dobbins Island. I looked at the pictures and I would tend to agree that something foul was a foot. And add in my natural dislike for the Republican two sets of laws, one for us poor people and one set for their wealth buddies, I was on board with being outraged about this one as well. So imagine my surprise when I heard that Republicans had done in some of their own over this little affair. Totally out of character, I suspect it's just a political maneuver trying to split the environmentalist vote next election cycle since Republicans never question give aways to the wealthy.
Then I was going through the list of names of the new appointees and sure enough I recognized one of them Andrew Pruski. He's one of the first people that introduced himself to me at my first Young Democrats meeting and ran for the DCC and County Council this primary cycle. It's good to see such an important post falling to a guy that I know to be a pillar of the community. It makes me a lot more confident that we won't see any more of the kind of disgraceful favoritism and corruption that we saw from the previous board with a great guy like Andrew on the job.
Congratulations to you Mr. Pruski, you've earned it!
Read more over at Baltimore Sun.
Posted by Jamison at January 7, 2007 10:57 PM
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