the city of homewood is well within their rights in dismantling the equipment, but their stated reasons, and the lies told by police chief phillip dodd and other "concerned citizens" regarding how the park attracted the "wrong element", i.e., all skateboarders are criminals, angers me by its display of ignorance and fear from a community that desires to be seen as "progressive".
oh, ps, i think pressure from ingram & associates, who have been unable to sell the tacky townhomes in their $11M parkridge cottages development facing the park due to noise, has more to do with this than anything else. the homewood parks and recreation board is meeting again on 5 aug. to decide whether to place the equipment elsewhere. if their stated reasons for removing the equipment in the first place are sound, why would they simply not dispose of the equipment?
i already have a great dislike for ingram & associates for destroying the historic home at 2600 highland (at the intersection with niazuma next to the store on highland) and building those monstrously shitty condos.
pps did you know that in 1968 a house stood where the store on highland now is and james earl ray rented a room there immediately before departing for memphis?
Also, the failure of newspapers to report stuff like the Ingram and Associates situation shows the complicity of newspapers in the mendacity of business.
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i already have a great dislike for ingram & associates for destroying the historic home at 2600 highland (at the intersection with niazuma next to the store on highland) and building those monstrously shitty condos.
pps did you know that in 1968 a house stood where the store on highland now is and james earl ray rented a room there immediately before departing for memphis?
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Also, the failure of newspapers to report stuff like the Ingram and Associates situation shows the complicity of newspapers in the mendacity of business.
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