Tension over lack of local control
Thu, 10/02/2014 - 5:00am
News Staff
Sometimes being in the news business — or even being a reasonably informed citizen — can feel like a tug-of-war between understanding what is happening with individual trees and keeping a clear view of the whole forest. Both are necessary, of course, but the broad view requires less nuts-and-bolts analysis and more abstract and philosophical thinking — and who has time for that when it’s all we can do to keep the bills paid?