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As an ambitious study gets under way on whether the city of Marco Island should take over its electricity utility, there is one school of thought that the whole idea is moot. That is because a Marco Island Civic Association survey of its 2,500 members turns up 73 percent opposed.
As the same time, we are reminded of the last time conventional wisdom prevailed on the island, when opponents of further expansion of the sewer system were believed to be in the majority — until the complete slate of four pro-sewer candidates swept the February City Council elections.
On Marco, as Yogi Berra would say, it ain’t over till it’s over, which would be a referendum on the study committee’s findings.
Let the citizen review carry on, in the public interest.
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hey eagle...who wrote this?
#1 Posted by van on September 10, 2008 at 11:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Was it John Arceri or Issler? Or maybe it was one of their surrogates. Could it have been an editor of this paper? Whomever it was, the writer does not mind stepping on the majority opinion of MICA members. Would it not have been more useful to fully examine and report on the results of the entire survey? Conclusive editorial comments on the questions, responses and methods would then be far more appropriate then this piece is. This piece amounts to a comment and is inappropriate for the editorial section.
#2 Posted by Fossil on September 11, 2008 at 6:42 a.m. (Suggest removal)
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