This morning’s Coeur d’Alene Press had a My Turn column by Jeff Connaway. It was titled McEuen: Seeking a different solution. Rather than being an aimless, pointless rant, it was a reasoned and reasonable commentary about the City’s and Team McEuen’s handling of proposed renovations to McEuen Field. Not only that, Mr. Connaway offered equally reasonable and reasoned suggestions for a mid-course correction by the City.
There was only one downside to Mr. Connaway’s commentary: In the view of the Editorial Board of the Coeur d’Alene Press, it is only worth a penny (see Press editorial appearing Friday, September 3, 2010).
As for the City’s methodology to bamboozle and stampede the people into supporting a questionable project, one need only remember that it worked before. In August 2009 the North Idaho College Board of Trustees and the NIC Foundation, with the full and complete cooperation and encouragement from the City, foisted the DeArmond Mill site $10.4 million purchase on the people with similar glowing terms and bright, slick drawings.