This Blog: An Archive of Public Comment, and an Example

Identifier: gadfly0038
Title: This Blog: An Archive of Public Comment, and an Example
Creator: Gallagher, Ed
Date: 2018/09/28
Description: Gadfly knows the golf course issue is over. In fact, passing the course this morning, Gadfly could see that tree work has noticeably commenced. But one of the reasons Gadfly came out of retirement and started this blog was to provide an archive of citizen comments, a record of public participation. Over and over again Gadfly has seen commenters come to the podium at Council meetings with carefully thought out and written texts. Gadfly has been impressed over and over again at the high quality of these public comments and felt it a shame that, although covered well in Mrs. Kelchner’s minutes, the actual “voices” of the commenters evaporated from public view where residents not at the meeting might well find them of value. The blog started too late to cover the golf course issue from the beginning, but Nicole’s reporting linked below performs that function well. What Gadfly wants to do here is ask Council commenters to think of this blog as a place to archive those comments. Send your prepared texts to Gadfly. And to give you a specific example — regardless of where you stood on the golf course issue — of the thoughtful...
Subject: Bethlehem, Serious Issues
Medium: blog post
Contributor: Gallagher, Ed
Diamond, Barbara
Publisher: The Bethlehem Gadfly
Language: English