Letter to the Editor: Reality Check

Wishful thinking/daydreaming is fun but keep an honest eye on the horizon. Mom had a saying, "don't let your eyes be bigger than your stomach." Throwing around big numbers, looking for grants and raising taxes is tempting but isn't realistic when held up to the light of long-term past and future demographic change.

Anomalies are an unsteady thing. Spend millions on a school addition because there'...