Before you vote, think about growth — all of it

Sunday, April 1, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT; updated 1:25 a.m. CDT, Saturday, July 19, 2008

As I write, the botanist and I are winding up an extended spring break in southeastern Arizona. We’ve had a chance to see, along with the birds and the cacti, the impact of poorly planned population growth on an environment even more fragile than ours in central Missouri.

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