My favorite recent quote about local government:
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“For connoisseurs of government, the most attractive
thing about bureaucratic warfare is that it’s like a
sporting event. You may feel passion for your team.
You may root hard. But the world as we know it won’t
end if the other guys triumph.”
Scott Herhold “In My Opinion” San Jose Mercury News,
p. B-1, 5 January 2006
Of course, having your own time and money and future plans at
stake greatly increases your focus on the game.
We just successfully bid to buy
GGRM WP 668 (Golden Gate Railroad Museum, Western Pacific –
Feather River Railroad, Caboose number 668). GGRM has until
15 February 2006 to clear out of San Francisco’s Hunter’s Point.
We have until 15 February to move our caboose. We are in negotiations with
the San Jose City Planning Department to get a permit to replace our
dead swimming pool with a new office and library in a caboose. See
my husband John’s blog
for the details of this discussion. We don’t need the permit to move
the caboose from GGRM into the storage location but I shudder to think
of what we are going to do with many tens of tons of caboose if the city
does not allow the permit.
Before Monday, when we fly to Russia and Israel for a 2 week business
trip, we are busily making arrangements for the crane, truck, soils engineer
inspection of the existing pool, and lots of other activities which we will
kick off as soon as we return. Packing, did I mention we were also
packing?
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