Pros and Cons
Recognition goes out to Mark Yost for the straight shot of provocative and conservative editorial writing in the Pioneer Press yesterday, the likes of which this town may never have seen before. Excerpt from his piece on the public employee union's attempt to sue the government (that's YOU) to maintain their monopoly on providing road side garbage pick up:
If you've driven Minnesota's highways during the summer, you're familiar with the hard-working, altruistic public servants the union is defending. There's usually five or six of them standing around drinking coffee, ogling the buxom flag girl in short shorts, while the one college kid on the crew works his tail off and you inch your way through the egregiously misnamed "work zone." It's ironic, but true, that state employees are probably the one group that make prisoners look sympathetic.
Yes, he's saying what all commuters are thinking! In a space which was assumed for decades to be a DFL and their pet special interest group safe zone. Needless to say, this will be culture shock to long time subscribers not accustomed to diversity of opinion in their local paper. Heck, Yost can't even write a sober review of a choral performance without getting lit up. This, from yesterday's letters to the editor:
If you paid Mark Yost for his anemic review of Britten's "War Requiem," you ought to get your money back and your subscribers ought to get a rebate. None of us got our money's worth with that one. Did he simply not have anything meaningful to say, or did your editors not give him the space?
Interesting to note, Yost picks which letters get printed, including that one. So, when he gets besieged over his column on unions by outraged net tax consumers happy to get paid for a better Minnesota , I'm sure he'll have no hesitation to print the most virulent of the bunch. The guy is from Brooklyn (not Park), he can take the heat.
According to Mitch, some of the local yokels formerly providing the unchallenged lockstep liberal opinion in the Pioneer Press have already registered their objections. I suppose reactionary invective is inevitable from those resistant to progress. If I were Mark, I wouldn't take the scratchy AM signal caterwauling from the exiles of mainstream media too seriously. They're probably just upset that they never got published in the Wall Street Journal.
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