Pip: This site covers the kind of local civic drama that actually matters — where a name on a sign stops matching what’s happening inside the building.
Mara: Today we’re looking at a pointed piece from twshortt about whether a local business alliance has drifted from its founding purpose. Let’s start with the question the post puts directly to the RSBA.
By T.W. Shortt
Radcliff Small-Business Owner, Former Radcliff City Council Member, and Community Commentator
As new leadership approaches, Radcliff has an opportunity to build on recent progress and confront the challenges that have waited too long.
Every community has its share of opportunities and challenges, and Radcliff is no exception. After forty years as a small-business owner here, I have watched our community grow, struggle, adjust, and reinvent itself more than once.
With a new mayor taking office in the coming months, along with the possibility of new members joining the City Council, Radcliff is entering another important period in its history. New leadership creates an opportunity to recognize what has worked, acknowledge what has not been done, and decide where we want to go next.
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