
{"id":3554,"date":"2008-10-02T07:50:49","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T15:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=3554"},"modified":"2008-10-02T08:26:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T16:26:56","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-economic-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/10\/02\/letter-to-the-editor-economic-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Economic choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the local captains of commerce are getting pumped up about dropping an airport in some rural community. Once again we are faced with a choice between two different economic approaches.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nOn the one hand, you have sustainable, local small business-based economic development that provides the steady backbone of local economies. From our vantage point, we can easily foresee a future in which commerce is restricted by escalating fuel costs. This makes local businesses essential for our future, especially local food production and processing. It also means less air travel.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, you have the bigger-is-better, glamorous big-business model that excites the movers &#038; shakers and is taught in most corporate university planning and economic programs. This status quo model is basically blinded to the steady benefits of a locally rooted economy by the excitement of economic big-game hunting and the lure of the big score. Unfortunately, our rookie Orange County Economic Development director Brad Broadwell, fresh in from out-of-state, is in this camp.<\/p>\n<p>This is where the airport fits in &#8211; the dream of large economic action, corporate big bucks and the Big Game. No concern for a future of less &#038; more-expensive fuel. No concern for the integrity of local communities. No concern for a future in which rural land around the Chapel Hill-Carrboro urban center will be more valuable than gold as a food-producing resource.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark Marcoplos<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Chapel Hill<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the local captains of commerce are getting pumped up about dropping an airport in some rural community. Once again we are faced with a choice between two different economic approaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}