Ah, the smell of freshly built homes and apartment developments permeates your neighborhood.
Being a city-dude, with piped Spada Lake water flowing through my taps, I wonder why I should care about rural water. Perhaps I’m bothered by the thought that in 2014, the mighty Colorado River, for the first time in sixteen years, flowed into the sea. There were just too many straws in that water. Can we learn from that?
The premise given is that Hirst harms the rural homeowner, but is this really about developers and builders losing value on land, and diminished building profits?
When Walmart wants a huge benefit, they buy legislators who then tell us it’s really to help Mom and Pop store owners. When Big-Ag wants a favor, we’re told it’s to help the small family farms. When Boeing seeks a tax break they claim it’s only about the workers. So, when the Master Builder Association executive writes an anti-Hirst commentary, does he care if your well runs dry, or if a stream stops flowing? Follow the money. Perhaps the real answer lies in some of those online sites about the MBA’s politics.
Ron Larsen
Everett
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