Enough is enough
Editor, The Commercial:
“When you empower individuals, that is how you empower a community.” Dr Fitz Hill.
Powerful words from a passionate, accomplished leader. Certainly a vision Pine Bluff enlisted leaders might want to cogitate.
Independent reporting for Pine Bluff & Jefferson County since 1879.
A caveat to said empowerment is a clear, common objective with timely, constructive feedback. Five years into this journey with GFPB, one might determine there has been a “failure to communicate.”
Has the lack of leadership been the issue? Maybe a deep dive would help as to the cause for a growing list of projects with little to show, whose completion apparently never got much further than bankrolling the project bidders.
A common goal the community agreed needed immediate attention was to clean up the city, eliminating blight. How have we done? Well, we can look no further than the million-dollar blight GFPB created with the aborted Go-Kart track.
This is only one example of what we’ve gotten for our money? GFPB say, NFL-Not For Long! And GFPB is so proud of the broken-down fence, grown up vegetation and general eye sore, that they’ve posted their name on one of the broken down gates. It’s like our city leaders never get out in their community unless cameras are rolling.
Am I going out on a limb to say our visions for tomorrow may need a fresh look?
Is it time we start to listen to money moguls dealing in billion-dollar deals about tomorrow? Malls and movie theaters are yesterday. Data centers, renewable energy and EV’s are now.
Are we going to wait another 5 years to find out those empowered did not have the leadership to empower our community? Are you sick and tired of being “sick and tired?”
GFPB – Enough!
Mike Lankford,
Pine Bluff