In the editorial “Fear and loathing cost us many opportunities” Mr. Lathan actually suggested that Marshall might could do things better.

He goes so far as to suggest that in Marshall there is a group of nay-sayers to new ideas and approaches.

A nay-sayer is someone that always say nay to any idea that is not their’s. There is one exception; sometime another person’s idea is acceptable if the nay-sayer feels they can convince the public that is was really their idea.

Certainly there are no people like that in Marshall.

Mr Latham states “Some people are willing to believe anything about Henley, bad that is.”

He continues “ Was a parade held in downtown Marshall to welcome him in and make him feel at home so perhaps his largesse would extend in other directions?

Or was Henley greeted with distrust and defensiveness? Were the battle lines drawn from the very beginning before anyone really knew what was going to happen?”

There are good reasons to distrust and dislike Mr. Henley. He is an outsider – he is from Linden.

How can Mr. Latham question our movers and shakers?

They have a track record. In thirty years they have taken a sleepy little town of 28,000 and promoted it into an exciting city of 23,000 while preserving an illiteracy rate of over 30% and a healthy number of people below the poverty line.

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