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After reading the opening line of the editorial about how the Parker resort project is “heaven-sent” for Galena, Illinois, I questioned everything — including the credibility of the Tribune Editorial Board ( “Deluxe, ‘Sonoma-style’ resort is back on track for Galena, surviving a NIMBY court battle,” Nov. 17). Whose opinion is this? Who is telling me that the town I grew up in needs another resort?

The Parker project represents a classic, money/greed versus community/wildlife scenario where an out-of-state developer with a small portfolio has somehow convinced a few aging, unpaid and paid small-town leaders that they will in some way be empowered by allowing a massive resort to create more traffic congestion, light pollution and noise polluti

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