Susan Mackay can feel the clock ticking.
With less than a month to go in office, she desperately wants to see the realization of one of her political goals, the siting of a recreation complex on the 156 acres of Army Corps of Engineers land adjacent to the Riverwalk and just south of Highway 82.
In light of her defeat by Joseph Mickens in Tuesday''s municipal elections, time is running out for the Ward 2 Councilman. Mackay was elected in a special election in early 2008 after the death of her
Birney Imes III is the immediate past publisher of The Dispatch.
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