TWO-WAY POX William Shakespeare was an expert at fashioning unusual insults. He wove such badgering gems out of the common language of his day. He used them with special needs caused him to find a way to explain subtle counterpoint ideas to the less learned pit peasantry standees as well. He took both families involved in the Romeo and Juliet thing and wished a "pox" or a "plague" on both often. He spoke of something which had immediate affect on the fine persons seated on the edge of the stage and of the less-advantaged peasantry as standees.
The county officials who are the governing body of a small town in Augusta County, Virginia know locally as "The Board of Supervisors" was found to have spent $440,000 of tax-generated fund for a "survey" by a private agency which would determine if the small community could handle the founding a mega-industrial complex in it's midst. Those facts did not come to light by means of a formal announcement from the governmental body, but, rather from an inquiry by a lady from a different part of the county asking the Staunton, Virginia "News-Leader" wherein the laws concerning factual truth-telling might apply. She was concerned by the fact that such a large amount had been paid for what appeared to be a simple simple asking around to determine what he coming of such a large industrial development might affect the area. She was also concerned with the obvious fact that the Board was keeping it all as their own, little, dark secret. That triggered general widespread reactions, as you might expect it could.
The Board resisted public outcry asking that the information be made public Two members of the Board itself, on two occasions, asked that the information be published, but the Board refused and stalled for the better part of a month promising clarification when the $440,000 -paid for - questionnaire form was
completed. The doubtful nature of that agency "study" was quite early made suspect when the head of the Shenandoah Valley Airport Authority , next-door
neighbor to the 1600 acre industrial plant asked why the agency making they had not called on them as a next-door neighbor to the project.
The affair is not concluded. -giant Toyota automobile assembly plant is not to be here - if anywhere, for that matter but the Board of Super-persons is still bickering with a local holder of 600 acres he is willing to part with for
a third or fourth nearby "industrial park" with sites for twenty-three small plants.
Beyond all doubt, the real opportunity seems to be in taking surveys.
Andrew McCaskey amccsr@adelphia.net 7-3-06 [c457wds]
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