Comment 64832

By mystoneycreek (registered) - website | Posted June 12, 2011 at 13:16:28

The closer the public can get to the daily business of their Council, whether by streaming, requests for information, broader and more thorough coverage through media, including blogs, etc., the better.

I'll take the Mayor at his word. However...

However, I seem to be wearing a cynicism patch where genuine and authentically positive regard is expressed for the public becoming more and more involved with what goes on in their local governance. I feel substantial doubt that just about ANYONE who has a job to do...whether elected or appointed...regards the changing of process with anything other than a cringe...and a hunkering-down.

Sorry for this negativity, but my -admittedly small- scope of what the standard response tend to be to 'public involvement' leaves me feeling that territory is not ceded willingly. Especially by 'City Staff'.

Yeah, that 'Culture of Obstructionism' I've referred to previously is far more deeply -and widely- entrenched than even some of the articles here would suggest.

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