Guest Opinion by Mike Butler for Times Call
When do we know that a community is actually maturing socially, economically and politically?
This reflection is not written from an either-or perspective. A community is neither completely infantile nor fully mature. Instead, the state of communities exist along spectrums and continuums.
What needs to guide our community toward what might be described as a mature civicpersonality? Static conditions are indicative of decay. Communities, institutions and even our own thinking must continue to move forward in order to persist.