What Are We Doing?

Opposing the hostile takeover of Liberty Apple Valley

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Commentary archive

2015

December

  • Poor all-knowing Pat Orr
  • Poor anti-monopolist Pat Orr
  • Shop local?
  • Exponential growth
  • This year’s water bills
  • Comparing ads
  • Is secrecy still repugnant in a free society?
  • Apple Valley’s big day
  • Guarantees, not promises
  • No middleman
  • Only care about making money
  • Response to Barb Stanton (Carloni)
  • Vote cancer for council
  • Inciting violence (Lee)
  • All good things must come to an end
  • Controlling the controllers
  • Guarantees
  • Hot water
  • A debtor way of life

The experiences of government-owned systems, such as Los Angeles and San Diego, suggest that government ownership is a recipe for deferred maintenance that ultimately translates into deteriorating service and substantially higher costs to address problems that had been kicked down the road due to poor asset management and planning.

— Rodney T. Smith, Ph.D.

Executive summary

My proposal

Maintained by Greg Raven.
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