I will be back to writing about local politics, although I don't think I've missed much. It's the same old pattern:
- Member of City Council majority proposes solution to a widely-held concern that has been ignored by the city establishment.
- Tulsa Whirled reports the story, accompanied by a distorting headline and an unflattering picture of the Councilor in question.
- Tulsa Metro Chamber Chairman Bob Poe delivers a ranting condemnation in front of a civic group.
- Mayor Bill LaFortune tries to find a way to appear decisive without making anyone not like him.
- Tulsa Whirled publishes editorial condemning the foolish Councilors for questioning a policy that has been around for years and that the city establishment is quite content with.
- Councilor Sam Roop steps away from his erstwhile colleagues and into the spotlight, skull in hand, to recite a soliloquy from Hamlet, so that everyone can see that he's the only real grownup on the Council.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Specifics to be addressed sometime Sunday. There's the EDC thing -- the Mayor was talking about it on KFAQ Friday morning. Then there's Councilor Mautino's proposal regarding Board of Adjustment appeals.
