Roger Watson’s view piece in the BHC on Sunday titled “Supervisors expend $600k to reward squirrels with cellphones” was extra than a minimal disappointing.
The dearth of genuine info was shocking … particularly as Mr. Watson is the taking care of editor of this paper. So, let’s look outside of the “squirrels” for a moment:
The whole premise of Mr. Watson’s piece rests on a sliver of info, which is presented as the total story. Mr. Watson unsuccessful to point out that Washington County has been granted roughly $60M to deliver world-wide-web obtain to quite a few of the unserved sections of the county.
Certainly, the Washington County Board of Supervisors not too long ago voted to employ Ernst & Younger, a company specializing in broadband infrastructure, to help with the setting up, configuration and, eventually, the execution of this huge job. The supervisors are executing their because of diligence — they are seeking the details that will guideline the long term determination-producing connected to this essential obtain. In other words and phrases, they are proving to be excellent and nicely-informed stewards of shut to $60M in grant funding to enrich the lives of our citizens and guests. To present this $600K financial investment as the “whole tale,” without the need of context or history, is merely misleading.
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Mr. Watson argues that these cash are squandered on “squirrels with cellphones.” Quite the visible, sure, but even this vibrant description does not obscure the details:
Path protection should really be everyone’s worry. Accidents occur on the two the Creeper and Mendota trails as they do at all recreational internet sites. So far too does the sudden onset of emergency wellbeing challenges like coronary heart assaults, strokes or other medical crises that involve an instant