Government is not cure to all problems
Monday, October 29, 2001
You don't have to look very far sometimes to see a dumb idea. State Rep. John Bowman of St. Louis takes the cake this week with his proposal to create a new state Department of Urban Conservation. Bowman thinks by creating yet another level of state government bureaucracy that more attention would be drawn to the problems of the inner city and more creative ways to address those problems would surface.