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    <author><![CDATA[Mitchell hazouri]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Bob,
    <p>  I didn't mean to suggest that it would have been an easy thing to have opposed this project earlier, only that Raleigh voters want their council people to show more courage. No matter what one's opinion of Meeker is and regardless of whether this whole process was shepherded through by him in maybe a less than completely open manner, he is still the mayor and it looks to me as if he were blindsided.
        
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      <![CDATA[Mitch: The process by which a project like this inches forward over the years, from "Let's study it, you're not committing to anything" to "Let's bring in a consultant to study it some more" to -- 25 steps later -- "Here's the design, and by the way, it's too late to change anything" should be the subject of a public administration text. But to answer your question to the best of my knowledge, Crowder did question it in 2008, and I reported that in the course of an article about the onset of tough economic times for the city: http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A259877
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    Crowder's suggestion that it might save a lot of money to build the new facilities in the Hillsborough Street "hole in the ground" -- avoiding the need to move the cops out of their current HQ so it could be torn down and the Lightner tower erected on its site -- was dismissed by the mayor as too late in the process already.
        
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      <![CDATA[Bob,
    <p> Do you have any record of Stephenson or Crowder expressing opposition to any aspect of this project at any time in the years before Bonner Gaylord came to the council? Did you express concerns about this building in any of your columns?
        
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      <![CDATA[Thanks for the best article yet on this ill-conceived project. What a bad mix of functions and security levels under one roof!
        
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