Another item I missed earlier; Kathleen Miller writes in the Examiner, Montgomery residents: County outreach lacking:
Montgomery elected officials are confounded by a recent survey that reported nearly 60 percent of area residents say the county does not do a good job of listening to its residents, when leaders are reaching out to constituents in town hall meetings, call-in television talk shows and chat sessions over the Internet.
From the American Heritage Dictionary:
lis·ten (lĭs’ən)
intr.v., -tened, -ten·ing, -tens.
- To make an effort to hear something: listen to the radio; listening for the bell.
- To pay attention; heed: “She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit” (Maya Angelou).
Anyone else think that the “elected officials” are using one of these definitions while the “area residents” are using the other?
FYI, the full survey report (147 pages, in PDF format) can be found here.