✒ FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK
A structure that costs the taxpayer nothing is here also declared under budget, which raises the question of whose budget, kept where, and reviewed by whom. The phrase about proceeding without further contingency, doubt, or threat is not the language of a building permit; it is the language of a man announcing that reality has run out of appeals. And describing the National Trust for Historic Preservation as not affiliated with the United States Government is less an exposé than a definition: that is what a private charity is. Being ahead of schedule is easy when you are the only one holding the schedule.