Jobs, education, opportunity at center of Cairo comprehensive plan

From KFVS TV Channel 12

Public meeting held to discuss future of Cairo

From the Southeast Missourian

Cairo residents give input on possible comprehensive plan

CAT Tracks Editor's Note:

If you are feeling optimistic about the future of Cairo...

...then recent reports in The Cairo Citizen coupled with this closing blurb from the Southeast Missourian article...

"Coleman said it's important for the people to hold local government accountable and do its part to continue moving the city forward. He said only one council member has attended either of the public meetings."

...should serve as the proverbial fire bell in the night.

Here they go again...

Cairo "survivors" will recall the last time a Cairo Mayor went to war with the City Council...

...and how well that ended.

So...

In November, when the group from New Orleans submits it's report to the City of Cairo, maybe it should begin and close with the familiar and oh-so-true quote attributed to the Irish statesman/philosopher Edmund Burke:

"Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it."