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Originally Posted by ilovetv
I'm not a member of POA but I support the effort to have checks and balances.
One of the reasons I don't join POA is because of the obvious bias against, and even hatred of, the developer. The reporting in the POA Bulletin is often very sensationalistic and biased (more biased than the Daily Sun) and in some cases has told untruths. The funding of the live oaks park by the bridge on Morse is an example of where untruths were told but later clarified by VHA and facts.
I think we need both VHA and POA. VHA's goal is to keep TV pristinely kept, fiscally funded and managed, and fiscally solvent as well. The developer protecting his business assets here (banks, insurance and mortgage companies, and millions of square feet of commercial leasing properties) is simultaneously protecting OUR assets tied up in our homes. If the developer lets his business assets go to the dogs (which won't happen), home values go to the dogs right behind them.
In many ways, what's good for the developer's business here is good for us, too. We couldn't afford to live like this in other places, and in the first place, other places don't even HAVE what we have here, much less at an affordable price.
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Does the POA have elections at some intervals? Perhaps a new group would be a little different and the paper would be a little different and it wouldn't strike me so much as trying to start something and make people all mad. Although it was really doing much better there for awhile, in my opinion.
I am not opposed to a watchdog organization. Maybe they need a retired journalist writing the paper. I just like facts reported and a good journalist usually does that with journalistic language and style. Sometimes the paper makes me mad and sometimes the paper is very ....well, better and more positive or something. .
I'd like a watchdog group to be helpful and watching out for our interests in a businesslike and respectful way. When small issues are paramount in the paper, then I am disappointed ...I guess they have to have something to write about.
We do need to see both sides and I do think the VHA is representative of the developer. I really shouldn't say either way, I don't belong to either. AND at this time don't see the need to belong to either.