EDITORIAL FREE THE FOUNTAIN.IF you subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; the idea that the Grand Avenue Park plan cooked up by county officials and developers is just a grandiose real-estate scheme, then surely the plight of the doomed fountain will spark your ire. Last week the environmental impact report for the $1.8 billion boondoggle boon·dog·gle Informal n. 1. An unnecessary or wasteful project or activity. 2. a. A braided leather cord worn as a decoration especially by Boy Scouts. b. , which includes transforming the county administration mall into a 16-acre park, was unveiled. As part of the plan, it was revealed that the large and lovely fountain sitting in the middle of the outside complex and many of its adjoining pools is doomed because it gets in the way of grading. There are many disturbing things about this project, which appears little more than a scam to make developers rich and give county officials a spiffy spiffy - /spi'fee/ 1. Said of programs having a pretty, clever, or exceptionally well-designed interface. "Have you seen the spiffy X version of empire yet?" This was common mainstream slang during the 1940s. 2. new building, with no public benefit. And the idea that the project would spend money to raze raze also rase tr.v. razed also rased, raz·ing also ras·ing, raz·es also ras·es 1. To level to the ground; demolish. See Synonyms at ruin. 2. To scrape or shave off. 3. an iconic i·con·ic adj. 1. Of, relating to, or having the character of an icon. 2. Having a conventional formulaic style. Used of certain memorial statues and busts. fountain only increases suspicions that the public is going to get the raw end of this deal. Free the fountain from this bad Grand Avenue park plan. And free the people as well. |
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