Telegram Editorial

Click here to read, it is good that they have extended contract negotiations? Have we not already invested 8 years, 6 months and 16 days into negotiations alreadys? Don't get me wrong, MassPort:

• Has been great for ORH, subsidizing our operatings deficit not debt service
• Buying us time to get our act together, but we have not
• I do not blame MassPort either for not turning ORH around, since they would never realize any true return under any of these agreements. The only way that they could realize any return was if they outright owned or had a long-term lease (99 years) at ORH. it was up to us to make ORH into what Rockford is today.

At the latest, we should have been out of the airport business at the end of the 2nd operating agreement, July 1st, 2007. Not only should we be talking to MassPort, but companies like National Express, that is not tax-exempt and would pay property taxes? If you were selling your house would you only talk to your next door neighbor?

Why are we only considering MassPort as a potential buyer or leassee? AIRPORT FOR SALE!!