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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whoops.  My reply was in the body of the post above me.

Meant to type:

Dead on correct. You would have thought that reopening Newell Street was the biggest issue facing the council. It was a few loud people on twitter who wanted to congregate in Acorn Park. The actual residents (working people who dont tweet all day) actually wanted it reopened.

Or the amount of pixels yelling about Drag Queen story hour.

You can be all for LGBTQ rights, and still think this was getting more attention than say falling test scores in MCPS, or the sky rocketing crime rate.[/quote]
Newell Street is probably the most embarrassing episode that I can imagine. It is easy to plot out a Parks and Rec eposiode lampooning these clowns. And yet, they are undeterred and unembarrassed. It’s wild.[/quote]

The Newell street thing is actually exactly what a city council should be doing- taking a look at quality of life things like giving people more access to open areas.  The fact that a few neighbors made a stink about having to drive an extra few blocks and won was what was embarrassing.  [/quote]
The people of color that lived in the adjacent buildings thought that the closed street negatively affected their quality of life. They had sent complaints about noise, vagrancy, etc which went unnoticed by the Council. A number of white people that did not live immediately adjacent wanted it closed as a political statement about cars which went noticed by the Council who then proceeded to get on and then quickly get off their soapboxes once they realized how ridiculous it was making them look.[/quote]

But those people werent loud on twitter.  They were just normal citizens who wanted to work, and live in peace so their opinion isnt as important as the moco twitterati.[/quote]

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