If we got lucky maybe they would go ahead and appoint a new county mayor while they are all there and the need for good leadership, smaller government, and wholesale accountability are all on everyone's mind.

"If we got lucky maybe they would go ahead and appoint a new county mayor"

We could only be so lucky.

I say they take a couple of fishing rods and tie some P cards to them and dangle them off the Gay Street bridge just under the abutments and see what they can reel in.

I bet it would "smell" better than what we already have.

KNS had a pic of Ragsdale sitting way in the balcony. He was all by his lonesome. The lighting made his hair look blond, not gray.

Pam Strickland

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." ~Kurt Vonnegut

Mark Campen and Elaine Davis are on county commission. I will be shipped in dip.

Several of the others who I don't know also seem like good people. Odds are if those two made it on, maybe a few more who want to be part of the broader community and not just the development community made it through as well.

Can we actually raise our aspirations above simply wanting KCC to not screw things up too bad? Could commission soon operate as an actual deliberative body, where commissioners show up without minds made up and votes counted? Have we passed out of the interminable shadow of term limits?

On the surface it looks a lot better for the time being.

Still another election cycle or two needed to make things adequately representative of the populace.

As County Commission gets more representative and stabilized I would also like to see:

1) The Development Corporation changed or dissolved.

2) A proposal submitted to state setting criteria for appointment to planning commissions be they not be heavy with business sector indicating a likely conflict of interest and they have a makeup representative of the area populace.

3) More immediately, some effort to correct some skewered MPC appointments. Mayors should not be able to make appointments without some checks and balances.

4) I also think the Industrial Development Board could use the same sort of restructuring.