The week of March 10, 2008
Commissioners are cavalierly tossing out a 21-member team’s legally required proposals to upgrade county government.
Paradoxically, commissioners themselves chose most of the toothless team that by law must recommend every five years updates to the county charter — equivalent to a constitution.
Only voters can make the changes, but commissioners have inserted themselves as censors to prevent us from ever getting a chance to do anything not in commissioners’ own interests.
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