INC NEWS - guiding principles and an apology

[Mike - Hotmail]

John,

I publicly apologize to you if I've offended you personally.

That was not the intention nor direction that caused this discussion to 
disintegrate.

My only hope is that people will learn more about the advantages and 
disadvantages of a NA by talking about them openly.  Only then can we make 
independent decisions based on those discussions.

Listserves are just one venue.  Seeking other opportunities to lobby for it 
in community meetings and/or neighborhood association gatherings would be 
another.

Either way, giving people an opportunity to engage and participate in them 
even over a period of time is not that much of a thing to ask,  is it?

In the meantime,  don't you think we might find better ways to improve the 
process first (like orienting the five new planners you mentioned to be more 
"neighborhood sensitive") before injecting another person into an already 
complicated system?

mike

"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a 
question without debating it"   Jeseph Joubert