Are we looking to future, or are we stuck in past?

TO THE EDITOR:

For the people not old enough to remember, Main Street McMinnville at one time was the center of trade in Warren County. Main Street merchants did not want to open on Sundays and this started residents going to Cookeville, Murfreesboro and Nashville to shop at this time.

With the coming of the first mall, Main Street merchants fought to keep Main Street in control by trying to petition to keep this mall out. Main Street should be an example of what happens when you fight progress.

With Main Street now looking so nice, the historical commission temporarily stopped remodeling the front of a building on Main Street. If a property owner cannot improve his property, regardless of where it is located, the agency that stops this progress should be required to buy the property.

Let?s not forget the former city administrator who told city employees they could not contact or write letters to the local paper. Now there is a safe driving ordinance that has been proposed and passed in McMinnville.

When people look at the policies of McMinnville, the police and of course the historical society, it makes me wonder if McMinnville wants to go into the future or make Main Street a museum for yesteryear.

Miles Snider

Victor J. Young Road

Rock Island