Failing to learn from History, and doomed to repeat it. RAMSEY --- July/August 2006, approaching the 2006 elections with unwarranted hubris and inadequate planning regard for apparent downside risk.

Remember the ol' Ramsey Crossings? It was BIG BOX. It was across Armstrong from Clown Center. It was Nirvana for shop-'til-you-drop addicts, with -- WITH RESTAURANTS. Really. They said all that and it was when the Gamec mayor was calling those talking of downside risk "negative thinkers."

The big question, are we doomed, by current posturings and propaganda, to repeat history - this history:

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Yellowed and dog-eared, but the story it teaches is crystal clear.