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Originally Posted by MichaelB
Please don;t go there....... don;t make this political. Liberal newspapers don't endorse the likes of Perry and Hutchensen for office.
BTW.... I am probably as "liberal" as you might find.... but totally agree about the rights of property owners. (I have said much earlier that their rights stop when the lease does). Obviousley such labels do us no good....they only stop dialogue.
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Yeah, I had to laugh at that one. The South Austin NIMBYs call it the "Austin realeStatesman" and are convinced it's knee-jerk pro-development. More like it's just a mediocre paper with uneven reporting....
Also as lefty myself (environmentalist and social democrat) I'd say the anti-development NIMBYs are betraying "liberal" or "progressive" values anyway, by opposing denser more sustainable development, light rail, and making Austin less affordable to families by restricting the supply of housing....