EDITORIALS: Today’s bad idea
Naturally it’s from Alderman Petty
Posted: March 22, 2010 at 4:15 a.m.
WHAT WAS Fayetteville alderman Matthew Petty thinking when he proposed that local officials start poring over the financial records of those three-day festivals that brighten the local scene?
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Editorial, Pages 12 on 03/22/2010
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To the Editor,
You live in Little Rock, don't you? As an outraged neighbor of the Bikes Blues and BBQ fiasco of a "'festival" in Fayetteville, I would like to suggest that you lobby your own fair city to change the venue so that you and your neighbors can be subjected twice a year to a week of non stop noise, traffic congestion and general mayhem.
We live a mile from Dickson Street and well past the 2am curfew on a school night, we can not only hear the music, we can understand the lyrics. This, with no due process for neighborhood input or now, even a reliable and objective cursory inspection of the books to make sure this horror is actually bringing in the promised revenues which are supposed to make this disruption worth it to those of us who have to leave town to avoid hearing damage twice a year.
On a day when the most important piece of social legislation of many decades passes the House of Representatives and is sent to the Senate, the irony of you publishing an opinion piece belittling Alderman Matthew Petty's name as well as his very reasonable request to examine the revenue books about BBB, instead of one on this historic legislation, or indeed any number of other subjects, is not lost on this reader.
Oh, how far the Democrat Gazette has fallen.
Posted by: jrlevine
March 22, 2010 at 9:52 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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