Nonetheless, Lind’s recent comment that Save Audubon Park was the most "misguided group since Pave the Lake" should have raised some eyebrows among older staffers. After all, in a 1974 editorial, the TP opined that, with the loss of 36 acres of open park to the redesigned zoo, a master plan for the park was needed and that the "inescapable conclusion" was "that the front part of the park will have to be redesigned for traditional park use" because the park, "small to begin with," "will be too valuable to devote to a golf course’s low-intensity use." [12/5/74 TP Sec. 1, p. 22.]

If the paper is to function as the institutional memory of the community, I suggest you devote at least as much newsprint to analyzing the  failure of the Audubon Nature Institute – for almost 30 years – to develop a master plan for the park, as you do to the bellybutton of a certain teen idol. Perhaps then we'll know who's really misguided -- or misled.