Author:
Ned Depew
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Date Posted: 09:31:38 02/24/06 Fri
...while the heart beats.
We live in interesting times. Quite frankly, I think the citizens of Hudson made a good choice in the last election - as shown by Danny's melt-down and subsequent skedaddle.
It's hard to believe he'd give up without a fight if he weren't worried about the revelations of a public investigation and court case. Certainly it gives even more credence to the idea that the Youth Commissioner job was part of an at least unethical and possibly even illegal tit-for-tat deal with the Scalera Administration.
That kind of politics is on its way out. That can only be good for Hudson. From what I've seen and read about the functioning of the new Administration, things seem to be going largely in the way I had hoped they would go when I got involved in City politics almost a decade ago.
The recent Administration had ten years to set themselves and their friends up, to make many long-term, crony-based, back-room deals that have damaged the City. That will change now, but it will take time. You don't dismantle an edifice that took a decade to build in two months.
But I'm very hopeful. There's a great new energy in Hudson. The mix of long-time residents like Joe Finn, Ed and Quintin Cross and Dick Tracy with more recent transplants like the indefatigable Ellen Thurston and the insightful Sarah Sterling can only be good for the City.
Hudson continues to have problems - it will always have problems, as we all do. But now the City has the energy and the will to meet those challenges in ways that take a longer, more public, more thoughtful perspective on them than the short-term, selfish, and self-aggrandising policies of recent years. Things are looking up. But I guess peeping out from under that rock of yours, "looking up" seems like the same-old same-old.
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