When you think of a place you just can't stay away from, that helps define your life out here, do you think of Pizzeria Bianco or Olive Garden, Barrio Cafe or Chipotle, Angels Trumpet Ale House or T.G.I. Fridays, Cartel Coffee or Starbucks, South Mountain Park or CityScape?

When you go to your favorite great city, what places do you seek out? As a callow 20-something I once ate at the Burger King closest to Centre Pompidou - is that you?

Our Municipal Government should start to understand that where they pump our money makes a tremendous difference to what this city will be, as it has made a tremendous difference to what this city became today.

Will we be a wide, hot, shallow sea of asphalt washing up to island Chains, or will our streets breathe with shade while people stroll in to sidewalk restaurants from the light rail stop or cab stand, and will our CityScapes continue to choke off all street life so cars can enter and exit from parking garages, trucks can service the chainstores in them and the chainstores can park their backsides to the street?

The money you spend, either in bond funds, tax revenues, or tax breaks today is the sauna you live alone in tomorrow.