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Out of our league
January 8, 2011
MAMMOTH TIMES EDITORIAL
"We were out of our league."
So said former Mammoth Lakes Town council member Kathy Cage, after learning the Town lost its appeal of the airport/Hot Creek decision last week.
“We didn’t have the expertise we needed to negotiate such high level agreements,” she said.
Cage’s assessment could all too easily be applied to far more than just the most recent airport embroilment.
The appeals court’s Dec. 30 decision that found the Town on the wrong side of a $30 million lawsuit is only the latest in a series of high-profile legal snafus.