I hope this story gets some attention. The Municipal Act is very specific about the criteria for closed sessions and if that is being abused democratic accountability is at stake. There are enough secrets already. If we don’t get to hear their debates and discussion we’ll truly be in the dark.

After commenting I looked up who she was. Your comment tracks.

Lower levels of entitlement are clearly also a problem, but she might be onto something in terms of how entitlement can become pathological in a very particular, harmful and obsessive way that is also profoundly resistant to change.

What I don’t hear are specifics about One City’s perceived shortcomings. What are the outcomes they think could be better delivered? You can’t audit “I think that those people believe things about homelessness that don’t fit my politics.”

So much for the theory that Amy BC isn’t as ideologically captive as she first appeared.

If you’ve been in the military, you know that soldiers are the experts at carrying out stupid orders in a way that makes manifest for all the stupidity of those orders.

Is that why you were required to take the extraordinary step of speaking to someone on the phone?