The City Council Bouncy House
It’s on page 63 in my copy of the Columbia City Charter under “Recall Petition.” Gather valid signatures from at least 30 percent of the voters in the last election, and you have the opportunity to fire the person who won. Faced with that reality, 1st Ward City Councilwoman Ginny Chadwick resigned rather than try to […]
The babble of noisy rhetoric
It’s old news by now, but the outcome of two municipal propositions in last month’s election may give us a pretty good idea of where Columbia is headed. Although many cheered the resounding defeat of Proposition 2, which would have raised impact fees on new construction, we were just as disappointed by the failure of […]
Counting Cars: A look at road fees
Could a trip generation model be the answer for a city that’s growing faster than its infrastructure can keep up?