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To the editor:
Well, are we? Being pricks, that is. Normally a gulf exists, here as elsewhere, between those who agonize about every little thing that’s wrong with our human condition and those who tend more to Rhett Butler’s frankly my dear… perspective.
Yet David Modica’s question as reported by Will Dowd from one of our best Town Meetings for years is strangely unifying. Yes David, as the Planning Board’s Marc Liebman explained, “We tried the other way but it was rejected.” Politics being the art of the possible, Marblehead has threaded the needle with the camel of 3A and come up with an answer that most importantly restores our eligibility for future state grants. Last year, at the ballot box, we all lost $4 million which was to be used in part for seawall remediation before the next big storm and it’s not coming back.
Let’s not agonize over a “better” answer to 3A. Let us all put on our big boy pants and when asked, both approve the amended 3A and vote for a generous override on June 9. To those tempted to strike this one down, David Modica will have a word for it.
Rhod Sharp
Franklin Street
