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No taxation without representation

by Bill BaileyCandidate For Mlird Director
| December 2, 2011 5:00 AM

MOSES LAKE - As a resident business owner, tax payer, employer and longtime volunteer on many local boards, I see obvious reasons and many subtle cost-benefits of having a clean and healthy lake at the center of our community. Our homes, businesses and property values are obviously at stake. Without Moses Lake, I doubt many of us would choose to live here. I once took the lake for granted, assuming it was "natural" rather than a lake "managed" mainly for irrigation. Shortly after landing a job here in 1975, I realized Moses Lake was slowly dying from a complex set of natural and human conditions. Today our lake is recovering due to a wise board decision over 40 years go to add "rehabilition" to the irrigation district mission. We simply cannot afford to short-change the lake now. Thank you Clint Connelly, Huck Fuller and Edward Hull.

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