February 26, 2006 · Derek

Talk Back. Comments Are On

Add your voice to Exit133! In the past few weeks more and more people have asked for me to turn on comments. Do I? Don’t I? I started to last week. That didn’t turn out quite as I expected. So you’ve beaten me down. Comments will be coming back on for some, but not all, articles. Here’s how it works:

Anybody can leave a comment. You must fill in the name and email address fields. If you leave a website URL it will be linked from your name. Your email address will not be displayed at any time. This will protect you. You must preview your message, then submit it, before it will be entered. This prevents comment spam and helps me control things a bit.

I will be moderating comments to keep them on topic. I really want to see some debate and discussion. I don’t want to see personal attacks or flame wars. I know that some of my readers have very strong opinions. That’s great. Take responsibility for your comments, back them up, and we’ll have a great time here. If a thread goes too far off topic, I will hide comments as necessary.

The following articles have commenting turned on:

If you really want me to turn on comments for an article that has them off, tell me. I’ll definitely consider it. With that all said, Comments are on. Who wants to go first?

1 comments

fredo July 9, 2012

“Input from residents will be used by City staff to help determine how General Fund dollars will be spent on services such as those provided by police, fire, libraries, street maintenance, social services, and support for the arts and cultural programs”

When the city council passed the .1% sales tax increase for mental health and alcohol services we were told that there was no need to let the public weigh in on spending decisions because “we elected the council to make these decisions.”

Now they say they want public input before making budget decisions.

So which is it? Does the council want the taxpayers to weigh in on spending and taxing decisions or do they prefer to make policy themselves because they were elected to make these decisions?

There’s a sort of inconsistant message going on here.