Commission will let suburbs thrive

It's a shame that half of the Augusta commissioners would rather ruin than help improve their city, if it requires them to relinquish even a small portion of their power and control.

What other reason can there be for them to operate, as they do, on this theory: Let's block those who have held us down for so long. We'll show 'em!

A newspaper article about Detroit and the professional ice hockey strike/lockout tells well where Augusta is heading with these commissioners voting to stop progress. Let me quote from the article on Page 9C of the Jan.  •  Chronicle: "Pro sports have been a bright spot in a sometimes bleak city, where a shrinking and increasingly impoverished population of 911,000 people is surrounded by a ring of more affluent suburbs in a metropolitan area of 4.5 million."

Those Augustans who vote for these bitter and mentally blind commissioners will, after it is too late, not remember that they will have caused this situation by voting for those people. They are sowing the wind now, and as Detroit is finding out, they will reap the whirlwind. Isn't it a shame?

Richard Netzley, Evans