the 6% solution

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Saving the trees
This demonstration began as an effort by a handful of people to save some trees and stop over-development.
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Full disclosure
That’s a picture of me with my single biggest contributor, Einar Ristroph. He has always been my favorite among my Ristroph cousins.
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Proposal No.2
I propose starting over with a smaller, much more transparent board that will give every Fairhoper a strong voice in the oversight of the library. This lean and mean board will have three members –
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Defending Rebecca Watson
isn’t that difficult, and it should be done by every candidate for Fairhope City Council.
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A proposal
We need to make sure that we have a City Council and a City Attorney that love to litigate, and if anybody messes with our character and charm…
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The Bay
I used to throw a cast net from one of the two crabbing piers while listening to the sound of all the sailboats’ halyards slapping against their masts.
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Seeing what you want to see
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Cookie-cutter subdivisions
The expression “cookie-cutter” appears 13 times in Fairhope’s 2024 Comprehensive Plan.
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The Sundial (cont’d)
“It is one’s duty to use silly metaphors on serious questions.” – G. K. Chesterton
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The best 4×4 by far
No matter how many Range Rovers, G-Wagons, and Cyber Trucks fill our town, I will always yield to any hand cranked vehicle that I meet on our streets.
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The Golf Course
“The best golf courses are those that most vividly suggest to the golfer that this is the landscape he was born to hunt. A good golf course feels like it was always there, waiting to be discovered, not imposed upon…