With Reservations: Yes

People I honor, people I respect, have given their provisional allegiance to the New Albany power that is.

Shadow5 has, with great consideration, tried to maintain an independence from that power. We continue to be skeptical that the current administration is to be invested in.

However, it is irrational to lay down a series of markers to which one might seek adherence, watch an individual adhere to those markers, and to then withhold support.

There are a score of inititatives that this blog seeks to see accomplished. Much to our surprise, the newly elected administration of the City of New Albany has pledged allegiance to most of those inititiatives.

With reservations, then, Shadow5 signs on to the 2008 program of the England administration. We look forward to the late March "State of the City" address.

The England administration, while operating with processes to which we object, seems to have proceeded in 2008 toward goals with which we enthusiastically agree.

Count us, then, as cheerleaders for the "England" program. We believe in the powers of redemption. We believe that the aspirations of a program's supporters can be achieved, particularly when the locus of those aspirations can be influenced by its own supporters.

Shadow5 is oriented toward policy objectives. So far, the England administration seems to be dedicated to those objectives. Accordingly, we "sign on" to the England agenda.

We are happy to do so. We had always hoped to be able to do so. And we hope that we can continue to do so.

One City, One Destiny.