"Rogue-ner" Versus Ferrell Over the Environment

Coincidentally, at about the same time that I was criticizing F.W. Mayor Jim Ferrell's recycling and garbage policies in Federal Way, Mirror columnist, Bob Roegner, effectively accused Ferrell of trying to turn Federal Way into a fish warehouse center, and potentially chopping down a whole lot of environmentally friendly trees in the process.  Grudgingly, I have to admit that sometimes "Rogue-ner" is on point and correct, and in this case he is.  What I would have done as mayor, with the old Weyerhaeuser property, is turn it into an Environmental Upgrade Center (I'm sure a better name would have been thought up of at a latter time) without a single tree being chopped down, where environmentally conscious workers, administrators, scientists and technicians could work on the the environmental problems of our time, with the Elephant in the Room being climate change.  Ferrell, however, is short-sighted, and he just takes the first-or-so bidder that comes up with any project, regardless of its positive, mediocre or negative impact on Federal Way. 

As a working man, I don't have time to give this development all the insight/nuances that it deserves in this article, but I will continue to let Federal Way know that Ferrell and good environmental practices don't mix well together at all, and if Roegner is helpful in imparting facts about the mayor's dubious environmental record to the community, so much the better if differing tarantulas ("Rogue-ner" and Ferrell) pointed out each others' faults.

-- Mark Greene (F.W. Exploratory Mayoral Committee)

[Revised on 8/26/16.]