Someone please,someone tell me that it is not MONEY that shouts so loudly. The environmental activists don’t really have any funding behind them, so that just leaves the big corporation, Trammel Crowe, and their giant sized landlord to jingle the coins.

I do not understand, much less accept, how a city council can just approve a project the size of Corporate Pointe, but just casually disregard the well documented need for an EIR. Even though a few concessions were obtained by the activists, this one was THE biggy!

There is something really corrupt feeling about all of this. If nothing else, the City Council decision appears to be morally corrupt.

I must admit fighting a feeling of despair at this moment. Environmental activists are always seemingly up against large corporations with huge amounts of money at their disposal. We are always fighting with a toothpick and they are fighting with a 6 foot-steel club. To make matters worse, there is usually always politics involved in any kind of decision making, and this is like trying to squeeze a bowl of jello….you just can’t get a hold of it.

At least we all have a reason to be grateful that Michael Collins has the courage to expose all the insanity involved, and tell it like it is. He absolutely deserves our gratitude and thanks.

Wake up folks! The Cold War is over. Using that lame excuse to explain away how it was acceptable for the defense industry to pollute with abandon is no longer legitimate and, by the way, I never much liked the condescending tone of those using that excuse. Let’s all face the facts that we have been left with a legacy of witch’s brew from California’s long-gone glory days. The aerospace industry may have once provided the magical illusion that the state was recession-proof, but now they have left the building and have no intention of cleaning up their own mess. We can’t just squeeze our eyes shut and wish really, really hard that the poisons will disappear. Instead, more people may get hideously ill and once the toxins are actually identified, it will cost more money than Cheney has to clean it up. Or, we can continue the half-century tradition of the old Atomics International site at SSFL and just argue about it indefinitely. At least, nothing has been built there….yet.