My Guest Appearance at the Airport Options Forum
Thanks to everybody who attended my talk at Gulf Coast College on October 16 - I think we all learned something, and I hope we had a little fun too. The airport debate has been far too acrimonious of late. I was disappointed that neither the airport board nor the County Commission attended. "Partners in Progress" sent a videophotographer, and hopefully our local officialdom will see some or all of it. I will do a repeat for any public body or civic/church group having a screen to host a PowerPoint presentation (the material almost demands detailed graphics for the discussion). My op-ed in the News-Herald is a very compressed abstract.
My apologies for the length of the lecture - it should have been covered in 45 minutes and I went over an hour.
I would like to put the material on this (or another) web site, but the files are large and I may not be able to afford the bandwidth.
About the groups who hosted the forum: their concerns are primarily environmental protection and growth management, and I share some of those concerns but not as passionately. My "aviation planning" concerns and their "community planning" concerns just overlap enough that they made the arrangements for convening the meeting. Thanks to their volunteers and donors for making it possible!
Thanks also to WKGC-FM 90.7 for broadcasting the entire presentation and Q&A. The station manager saw the tremendous public interest in my viewpoint during my appearance on "RapLine" October 13, and decided to cover the forum in spite of the limitations of radio for a largely graphic presentation.
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