Ron Bolin: May 7, 2012
On Friday I was notified that my Daily News column for May 18 will be my last. It seems that they will be making some changes to their op-ed and that I am to be one of them. The job lasted a half a year and we will part, as we started, on good terms. I have never, well maybe once, had cause for complaint about the treatment of the material submitted, and that was on some minor points of form in which it seems that I deviated from the DN standard practice and not on content. It has been an enjoyable adventure and I have been invited to submit guest editorials in the future at my leisure. In the meantime I will miss the comments which appeared in the on-line version of the paper, especially those which either expanded on the thoughts I was trying to convey or poured vitriol on me or my ideas. Either way, the commenters were engaged. Of course I will also miss the munificent remuneration. ;-) But I will have more time to devote to this blog which has seen scant effort from me lately.
In my penultimate column on May 4, I discussed an occurrence in my dealings with City Hall which, left uninvestigated or uncontested, would have led to a loss in the amenity value of my property and that of my neighbours for no offsetting compensation. Read the rest of this entry »
