A letter under the headline “Peschisolido is wrong about Wong and the Garden City lands” appeared in the September 25 issue of the Richmond Review. The writer is Carol Southgate, a director of the Garden City Lands Coaliton Society. Carol is also a local grower with a small farm, and she is a member of the Richmond [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Southgate re Peschisolido
September 23, 2009Time limits on public hearings
September 12, 2009It seems that Richmond council is considering time limits on public hearings. Whether that’s a good idea or not, the Garden City Lands Public Hearing in March 2008 should not be used to support the idea. If that hearing is any indication, the current system is helping democracy just fine. The Richmond Review has published [...]
Ryan Lake’s letter
September 2, 2009Ryan Lake’s “Corporate power runs political process” (Richmond News, Sept. 2) is one of the more discerning letters to the editor we’ll ever read, and it can easily be applied to the Garden City Lands issue.
It ends, “My only remaining hope is that I am wrong.” As a wise citizen who speaks out with words of [...]
