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Murika...it's always been about the new. After all, our country (not to mention our state) has no truly old structures to study or venerate. Yet, Florence does have a historical commission. It seems intent on saving many historical windows in the Walnut Street district. How does it feel about saving the old Pine Street Firehouse that is now used as a city auditorium? If all goes as planned, a new parking deck and other structures will soon replace it.
Our city doesn't have the best track record. Remember the Frank Perry Nurses' Home?
Apparently our city council saw fit to let Dick Jordan raze this beautiful structure in order to provide his friends with a new money-making site. He's also packed the historical commission with those who automatically kowtow to him, so don't hold out too many hopes for the old fire hall.
Remember this old joke?
They're tearing down a school to build a parking lot!
They're tearing down a church to build a parking lot!
Gasp! They're tearing down a parking lot to build a parking lot!
You have all these yahoo's coming out of the woodwork...ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ARGUMENT....on just moving a statue from in front of the Lauderdale County Courthouse and in watching this past Florence City council meeting not one peep from a citizen making comments on reissuing a 41 MILLON dollar bond! But, there was some nuevo rightwinger who looked like he started shaving last month crying about a city employee snubbing him at a board meeting! As for the council's reaction? The radio announcer was outraged and Dick looked shifty as ever. It is obvious the priorities of the electorate in this city are terribly out of whack and it will be future generations who pay for it....the current citizens are being taxed to death, scammed by the representatives that are on the council and too dumb to even know it or too lazy to care. LOOK, SQUIRREL!
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