EDITED UPDATE PER REQUEST: Rogue Columnist Jon Talton: "I'm not offering a popular view among Rogue readers but here it is. . ."

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THE MYSTERY ENDING ". ..If you can't beat the Real Estate Industrial Complex, join it. But the movie Chinatown was inspired by the California water wars of the early 20th century, especially securing Owens Valley water for Los Angeles. Here, it's backwards. There's no water to be had north of Buckeye. I don’t trust the state Department of Water Resources.

Whatever. The promoters will be rich and long gone when the catastrophe hits."

November 08, 2021

Writing off the news

I know some friends of the blog are unenthusiastic when I post galleries of Phoenix history. But history is one of Rogue Columnist's missions. And the traffic goes through the roof. People love the photos. But back to the serious stuff.

The New York Times did an in-depth look at the astonishing lack of care in advance of the deadly crowd trampling at the rapper's concert on Friday. It says in part:

Concert organizers and Houston city officials knew that the crowd at a music festival planned by Travis Scott, a favorite local rapper turned megastar, could be difficult to control.

[. . .] But I urge you to read the whole thing here. I'll wait.

The concerns went unheeded and worse.

[. . .] A "mass casualty event" was declared by officials but the rapper continued for a shocking 40 more minutes. .

I come away from reading this and think, Are we insane?

• Meanwhile

[...] I'm not offering a popular view among Rogue readers but here it is.

[. . .] This "city of the future" would be entirely car-dependent, no commuter rail to Phoenix, and very sketchy water availability, especially long term. If anything, it's the city of the past.

Again I ask: Are we insane?

Yes. "It's Chinatown, Jonny." The bet on another huge Ponzi scheme. . ."

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