Saturday, June 28, 2014

Historical Perspective Thought for the Weekend.

As we relax this weekend and get ready for the 4th of July, I feel a little time travel thought experiment might be fun.

In a thousand years, will San Angelo be a healthy community with a continuous historic connection back through today to Ft. Concho, etc. or will it be just another archeological site being studied for why it failed to survive and thrive?

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  1. If our mind set continues, unfettered growth, San Angelo will have dried up, turned to dust and blown away - won't even be an archeological site left to explore.

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    1. A long view is a bit of a challenge. How do you get a community to deal effectively with problems like roads and water and critical infrastructure, etc. when the governing body has an attention span governed by a 2 year election cycle. One key factor is we need to stop confusing the government with the community. City Hall is not the City.

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