An article that merely reintroduced Don Vanney as Arlington’s new mayor would have been sufficient (“What do Arlington locals make of longtime mayor’s resounding defeat,” The Herald, Dec. 26).
To spend time discounting the efforts of Barbara Tolbert over the past years showed the author’s bias. When Tolbert came into office as mayor, the city of Arlington was nearly broke. If taking the silos of various departments and having them come together in common cause proved disruptive to those who commanded those departments and faced criticism from those who had to surrender power, why listen to such gossip?
When the Oso landslide happened, Tolbert was there showing the heart of the city. When opportunity for new business to expand around the airport occurred, she saw it as a positive future and built on it. Certainly such a future may mean more multi-residential housing to accommodate younger workers but that is the picture throughout the county.
Vanney longs for a past Arlington. Nostalgia is fine, but it is not going to happen! This article was so one-sided and blatantly misleading that I wondered how it ever passed Herald editors!
Joan Smith
Edmonds
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