Letter: United We Stand, Divided We Fall - Parker Chronicle

Letter: United we stand, divided we fall - Parker Chronicle

One of the founding principles of our form of government was that of lengthy debate leading to compromise between the various constituencies to come to consensus. Not anymore. Now it’s all or nothing politics for almost everything in the name of fundraising. As a result we’re trending towards “Burger King” democracy: have it your way. California doesn’t like what DC says? We’ll do it our way. Douglas County doesn’t like what Denver says? We’ll d…

United We Stream, divided we fall: the GMCA still wants to wash its hands of its biggest fundraising initiative

Dear readers — last week The Mill turned five years old and the number of kind messages we received was almost overwhelming. Lucy Ramlochun said that reading The Mill was “the highlight of her day”, Anne thanked us for keeping her “connected to Manchester, the city of my youth” and said that she’d read every single story in the back-catalogue (can anyone else claim that?) and Ian said it was “amazing that such a small team could have such a big …