Invitation To Read My Letter
RECEIVED Thu., Sept. 29, 2011
To All Interested Chronicle Readers:
In regards to the Sept. 2 article "Poison in the Park," [News, Sept. 2], interested readers should go to the Web edition and read my cease-and-desist letter. It is a little long, but it is well worth reading, as it illustrates how difficult it is to get a complicated story across in modern American journalism.
The issue of the city of Austin's long-term failure to use herbicides, period – it isn't a question of appropriate use – is long and complicated and doesn't reflect well on the city's bureaucracy or American society or the American people for that matter. I extend an invitation to anyone interested in the issues – issues of public policy making, parks maintenance, biology, botany, chemistry, and the sociological failures of American society – to contact me via email if interested and attend a field trip out to Stacy Park. Figure on 90 minutes out in the park, maybe two hours if people walk slowly and have lots of questions.
In regards to the Sept. 2 article "Poison in the Park," [News, Sept. 2], interested readers should go to the Web edition and read my cease-and-desist letter. It is a little long, but it is well worth reading, as it illustrates how difficult it is to get a complicated story across in modern American journalism.
The issue of the city of Austin's long-term failure to use herbicides, period – it isn't a question of appropriate use – is long and complicated and doesn't reflect well on the city's bureaucracy or American society or the American people for that matter. I extend an invitation to anyone interested in the issues – issues of public policy making, parks maintenance, biology, botany, chemistry, and the sociological failures of American society – to contact me via email if interested and attend a field trip out to Stacy Park. Figure on 90 minutes out in the park, maybe two hours if people walk slowly and have lots of questions.
Sincerely,
Daniel N. White
Daniel N. White
