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What a glorious headline to wake up to: "Anti-Chauncey Group Files Lawsuit."
In the '60s-'70s (forgive the memory lapse of this 88-year-old for preciseness of the past) a small group of students, faculty, merchants and housewives were forced to go to court to stop a similar takeover attempt by not unlike Marc Moen, but the alarm, anger and impotence I still have about the rich and powerful imposing their will on the rest of us is just as seething and strong as then.
City Council and staff: Do the thinking and action you were elected to do. Protect the thousands of voters who put you there to work in OUR interest; not the rich who think their money and power can buy special consideration for their own personal gain.
Press-Citizen staff: Do your job. Look up in your files the stories you wrote (which helped topple the money/property/personal gain of the "Marc Moen of that day," Frieda Heiromymous) in favor of the vast majority of hard-working modest consumer taxpayers who did not want "urban renewal" to take away the quaint, appealing, fair-priced shops which we cherish that is still our downtown.
Let that "deja-vu" prevail rather than the high-towered, glass encased monoliths Marc Moen (and his ilk) would impose on the rest of us.
A. Mori Costantino
Iowa City