Stop bitching, get working

Interests clash. Conflict arises.

By profession and personality I encourage people tell me their beefs, so perhaps I get a skewed representation of the current climate. But the natives are restless. And even some immigrants.

The proposed development of a second Partnership Industrial Center, along with a number of corollary subjects, has been the source of obsessive grousing, politicking and blaming for more than a year.

That this project is named with the word partnership is an extreme paradox. The institutional players and the individuals associated with them universally disparage their nominal partners.

Water quality, appointments to the Board of Public Utilities, the county's jail construction project, the trunked-radio system and government's power of eminent domain are all connected to this one project, but it's hard to tell which are the tentacles and which is the monster itself. To my eye, the industrial park is the Maypole from which all these other entanglements issue.

The knots are getting tighter. And the time to loosen them is nigh.

Indeed, interests clash. But turf wars, power plays and back stabbing serve neither our communal good, nor, ultimately, the agendas of the individual players.

The constituencies of the several groups require their leaders to work in their interests. But we all have common interests that can only be served by compromise and cooperation.

Work it out or get out of the way.

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