RSS
Facebook
Twitter
E-PrincePresident-elect Barack Obama’s promises of change may have won him the election over Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), but older, experienced conservatives have not lost their foothold everywhere in America.
Palmer Heenan ’43, the 86-year-old Republican mayor of Grosse Pointe ...
(back to the article)
The opinions expressed here are those of the individual commenters and do not necessarily represent the views of The Daily Princetonian Publishing Company, Inc. We do not take responsibility for the opinions, facts, or claims presented by individual commenters, and reserve the right to moderate or delete inappropriate comments.
Palmer Heenan and his City Council are allowing the business district of Grosse Pointe Park to deteriorate and now it looks as slummy as neighboring Detroit. Heenan's vision for GPP comes from another era, in which government is opaque and the masters know best.
From the City Council minutes of September 22, 2008:
"T.... M...., 1*** L......, expressed concerns over her neighborhood. She stated when she moved here 25 years ago she thought she was in paradise. As of late, she has noticed additional improvements should be undertaken in her neighborhood."
Isn't 25 years just about the length of Mr. Mayor's tenure?
No concrete wall stretched across the main road to keep out black Detroiters will help, either, as has been proposed at meetings. In fact, that is exactly what should NOT be done. We need to make our business districts attractive and profitable again by supporting them and making sure all the buildings are filled with viable, healthy and useful to the neighborhood businesses.
Parking is not the problem they say it is. This is just an excuse that has proven useful to the City Council in order to discourage any business they don't like from moving in. On any given Friday or Saturday night, the parking lots are empty.
Fear of diversity, many of us believe, rules the actions of this Mayor and his City Council. They would ruin the business and smaller residential neighborhood, in order to maintain the wealthier sections of GPP as a bedroom community only.
Yes, 25 years ago, this was a little Paradise. No longer.
Mayor Heenan is "fearful of diversity"? Poor choice of words, friend. Please, give some evidence supporting this outrageous claim. You have no right to label the Mayor and his Council as racists... that was your implication, was it not? Any mayor of a town contiguous to a city like Detroit has the right to support the protection of his citizens, regardless of color. You critical liberals will snap at any chance you get to define a member of the GOP as biased.
This strand of comments seems largely off topic.