As the mayor’s term comes to a close and as I reflect over the last few years, I want to pick up the red pen Ken Koelsch used on my assignments 40-plus years ago!<\/p>\n
When he decided to jump into the mayor’s race, I thought my former teacher was a little nuts – wanting to tackle rising crime, the homelessness issues, cruise industry lawsuit, mining ordinance review and job losses due to declining state revenue.<\/p>\n
But he jumped on the foundering ship and started putting fires out. I do not envy who comes next to take command, but fortunately for us, Koelsch made great strides in stabilizing our ship. And he used that red pen.<\/p>\n
Juneau is an amazing place, but an amazing Juneau doesn’t just happen. It takes a tremendous amount of effort, including hours spent in meetings giving yourself to the process. For that, I believe the mayor deserves MVP, Gold Glover and first round Hall of Fame Inductee.<\/p>\n
I watch some Mariners baseball and have occasionally thought I’d like a jersey, but whose name would be on the back? Who could I really get behind? Well, if I ever come up with a Juneau jersey, “KOELSCH” would be on the back.<\/p>\n
Ron Flint,<\/strong><\/p>\n Juneau<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 My Turns and Letters to the Editor represent the view of the author, not the view of the Juneau Empire.<\/b><\/p>\n As the mayor’s term comes to a close and as I reflect over the last few years, I want to pick up the red pen Ken Koelsch used on my assignments 40-plus years ago!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":35021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[97],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-35020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","category-opinion","tag-letters-to-the-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35020"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=35020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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