Comments on: Dreaming up a better Homer http://homertribune.com/2010/02/dreaming-up-a-better-homer/ Homer, Alaska Wed, 16 May 2012 00:46:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: franan http://homertribune.com/2010/02/dreaming-up-a-better-homer/comment-page-1/#comment-1718 franan Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:28:01 +0000 http://homertribune.com/?p=7220#comment-1718 The Vista Volunteer - Carol Bevis - (Of Bevis and Butthead fame) - should have stuck with TV. It is just amazing to have people come here - spend a year getting film into their camera - and take a snapshot of Homer that is incredibly and painfully distorted. Tourism is destroying local sustainable commercial fishing. Commercial fishing as a local living hasn't been a reality for over 25 years. And education is a subsidized effort funded on the back of north slope oil production- If those are the cornerstones of the new homer - we are in bigger trouble than we thought. Whoever that city lady Holen is - the one that worked with Bevis - somebody needs to take her by the hand and lead her into the land of illumination. The Vista Volunteer – Carol Bevis – (Of Bevis and Butthead fame) – should have stuck with TV. It is just amazing to have people come here – spend a year getting film into their camera – and take a snapshot of Homer that is incredibly and painfully distorted.

Tourism is destroying local sustainable commercial fishing. Commercial fishing as a local living hasn’t been a reality for over 25 years. And education is a subsidized effort funded on the back of north slope oil production- If those are the cornerstones of the new homer – we are in bigger trouble than we thought.
Whoever that city lady Holen is – the one that worked with Bevis – somebody needs to take her by the hand and lead her into the land of illumination.

]]> By: Recovering Homeroid http://homertribune.com/2010/02/dreaming-up-a-better-homer/comment-page-1/#comment-1664 Recovering Homeroid Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:24:25 +0000 http://homertribune.com/?p=7220#comment-1664 I can almost see the sugar-plumbing ferries dancing in the streets paved in Wild Berry chocolate!......Oh wait that is made in Anchorage now. I always get a big laugh out of those income charts because there are no way they are ever accurate. Especially when the only jobs you can find are clerking at the save-u-more or seasonally for a charter office. You can't make an economy on a seasonal trade such as tourism. And it is seasonal up here. I can almost see the sugar-plumbing ferries dancing in the streets paved in Wild Berry chocolate!……Oh wait that is made in Anchorage now.

I always get a big laugh out of those income charts because there are no way they are ever accurate. Especially when the only jobs you can find are clerking at the save-u-more or seasonally for a charter office.

You can’t make an economy on a seasonal trade such as tourism. And it is seasonal up here.

]]> By: Budget Cutter http://homertribune.com/2010/02/dreaming-up-a-better-homer/comment-page-1/#comment-1660 Budget Cutter Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:14:46 +0000 http://homertribune.com/?p=7220#comment-1660 Whew, too much dope being smoked in that meeting. Wait, the Homer City Council must have had some input in this. Maybe the area taxi drivers are spear heading this falacy. Whew, too much dope being smoked in that meeting. Wait, the Homer City Council must have had some input in this. Maybe the area taxi drivers are spear heading this falacy.

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