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Mono County not keen on subsidizing air service
February 04, 2011 03:11PM

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Even as Mammoth’s town council moved to approve an agreement to subsidize some air service flights this week, county supervisors had three words to say: “Not so fast.”

http://www.mammothtimes.com/content/mono-county-not-keen-subsidizing-air-service

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Frank Furter

Re: Mono County not keen on subsidizing air service
February 05, 2011 02:21PM

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“It’s been made clear that year- round air service increases property values in Mammoth and an increase in property values is an increase in the income coming into the general fund.”

That seems like quite a stretch!

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szalkowski

Re: Mono County not keen on subsidizing air service
February 05, 2011 03:06PM

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“It’s been made clear that year- round air service increases property values in Mammoth and an increase in property values is an increase in the income coming into the general fund.”
That seems like quite a stretch!

About 15 years ago, a bunch of realtors convinced the residents of an Orange County city called El Toro (located about 20 miles from my house) to vote to rename the city Lake Forest because 'having a nice name would increase property values.'

Needless to say, the town contains neither a lake nor a forest.
(There is a reservoir that they call a lake.)

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Frank Furter

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February 05, 2011 03:26PM

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szalkowski

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Frank Furter

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“It’s been made clear that year- round air service increases property values in Mammoth and an increase in property values is an increase in the income coming into the general fund.”
That seems like quite a stretch!

About 15 years ago, a bunch of realtors convinced the residents of an Orange County city called El Toro (located about 20 miles from my house) to vote to rename the city Lake Forest because 'having a nice name would increase property values.'

Needless to say, the town contains neither a lake nor a forest.
(There is a reservoir that they call a lake.)

North Dakota was going to be renamed just Dakota, because "North" just sounded too cold!

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
-- Carl Sagan

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tomdisco

Re: Mono County not keen on subsidizing air service
February 06, 2011 07:31AM

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Frank Furter

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“It’s been made clear that year- round air service increases property values in Mammoth and an increase in property values is an increase in the income coming into the general fund.”
That seems like quite a stretch!

Their year-round air service via Alaska/Horizon consists of two round trip flights in the winter and in the summer only one round trip from Los Angeles. Yes, it's a stretch.