Et tu, Indy Week? Censoring comments?

Submitted by mbrock49 on Thu, 08/26/2010 - 6:28pm

My comment in reply to Bob Geary Story, "Greg Poole’s Dix is great. His TIF financing plan isn’t.”

"Let me try commenting on this blog...again. My comment from last week has mysteriously disappeared with no explanation from Bob Geary or Lisa Sorg.

Not only is the park as Greg Poole proposed it not a good idea, anyone wanting my reasons why can call me in Raleigh at 919-781-7278 to hear the other side of the story, and I will also post this at BlueNC, where comments don't mysteriously disappear.

Also, there is no doubt in my mind that the Wake Legislative delegation has caved in to pressure from Poole and others, as those who were supporting other options for the Dix property (and that is what we are really discussing here) are quietly supporting selling the property for development. There may be a park, but one "like Central Park in NY City" will never happen.

When they get through gutting that proposal and selling Dix campus off to the highest bidders, it will be a small undesirable corner of the land now called the Dix campus."

Posted by mbrock49 on August 26, 2010 at 5:48 PM www.indyweek.com/Citizen

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Not having

Submitted by Jake Gellar-Goad on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 12:02am.

read the article in question it strikes me as odd that TIF would be considered for use in Raleigh.

I don't know a whole lot about the subject, other than what I studied in a budgeting class last semester. But my basic understanding is that you use TIF for a really dilapidated to redevelop and revitalize to such an extreme degree that it will draw in a new wave of taxable businesses that can more than make up for the money you spent doing it. And for the difference to big enough to matter it has to be a really dilapidated community.

I know I wouldn't have done well on the final if I had suggested Raleigh or anywhere in the triangle as suitable candidate for TIF.

I doubt they're censoring comments

Submitted by James on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 8:14am.

I've never had a problem there other than an occasional technical glitch.

Do good. Be nice. Have fun.

NO --me either --until now

Submitted by mbrock49 on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 9:05am.

But why no comment online explaining a "glitch" from the web master or the editor?

Martha Brock

Bob Geary

Submitted by Brunette on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 9:48am.

is not of a censorious nature, so it is difficult for me to believe that absent some very good reason he would delete comments. Perhaps he is unaware of the comment having disappeared. It might not be at the top of his preoccupations to reread comments. Why be so quick to assume the worst?

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing
-Edmund Burke

Bob Geary--my rsponse

Submitted by mbrock49 on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 3:46pm.

I have known Bob ever since he did a personal interview with me in 2002. I learned then he writes "loosely" when so moved. I also know he does not feel compelled to observe the usual journalistic rules about distancing himself when writing about politics.

He likes to play crusading journalist from time to time. Even does well at it-- sometimes. But he and I talked about the Dix situation for the first time in 2006. He was involved in a group that has now morphed into the so-called Dix Visionaries that he is writing about.

I will contact Bob. I plan to ask him not only about the disappearing comment, as I kept a copy of it on file.

I want to ask him why he wrote in the manner he did about how Mac Paul "will be" the next Chair of the Wake Democratic Party based on the happenings of the small group at a meeting of the Wake Democratic Men's Club.

Martha Brock