Pin the Tail

Presenting you with an image by artist Brian Garvey:

The artwork was created for an issue card that went out in 1999 for City Councilman Andy Ruff’s campaign for elected office at that time. It was a postcard. On the backside it began, “Unrestrained growth will only lead to more congestion, loss of precious green space, increased taxes, and greater safety concerns…” I like the image Brian created in light of the scene I witnessed at the courthouse last night: hordes of developers spun up about the County’s Comprehensive Land Use Plan Update.

Andy is a local politician who has remained steadfastly progressive and stuck to his campaign promises. Like County Commissioner Mark Stoops, he’s never fallen into the misguided notion that he has to pander to the developers. Following in this tradition, we have County Councilwoman Julie Thomas setting a similar record this year…and tonight in the City of Bloomington, City Councilman Dave Rollo is seeing the first presentation of the Peak Oil Task Force’s report to the Bloomington City Council. Mr. Fluck Mill was part of that and I look forward to hearing how it went…

Woot! Party like it’s 1999!

OH, and the stupid stupid remarks that the H-T Editorial Board put out in their opinion column about Y2K? Those H-T Burgermeisters attempted a snide analogy between Y2K hysteria and peak oil crisis? Um, there were megabucks poured into diverting computer meltdowns. Very different approach to an impending crisis from the “bury one’s head in the sand” mentality that is preceding peak oil issues facing inhabitants on earth today, this minute— which is a reckless frame about the earth’s resources that the H-T Board seems to want to promulgate with their opinion column— and the recent publication of a poorly researched article that was written about the task force’s report.