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October 2, 2008
Coming to Terms With Mistakes
Noticing New York
We are neither entirely for nor against term limits. Mostly we are against them, but we are absolutely opposed to their elimination in the last-minute and self-serving manner being proposed by Bloomberg.
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The most pronounced downside of a Bloomberg third term involves a need to acknowledge and correct mistakes.
Mistakes including "Bloomberg’s supreme mistake," Atlantic Yards.
I was not the only one to criticize Atlantic Yards when I phoned in to the Brian Lehrer show during the term limits discussion on September 9th. Atlantic Yards is a spectacular example of a decision that was rushed through with improperly forced haste and it is a spectacular example of just how bad the consequences of such thoughtless haste can be.
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However disgraceful all its lapses, the Bloomberg administration has done nothing to correct the misreckoned Atlantic Yards course it is on.
Posted by lumi at October 2, 2008 5:10 AM