It’s about accountability. That’s what some 30 residents told county legislators at their meeting on September 14. The speakers were opposing a Republican plan to move the county executive’s deadline for submitting a budget from mid-October to mid-November. That would leave only a month for the legislature to deliberate on a budget and adopt it. […]
Bill Smith
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Lessons from the Johnson loss
A few weeks before the election, I was talking to a prominent Democrat about the county-executive race. The Democrat was supporting Johnson but didn’t think he was his party’s strongest candidate. Johnson’s biggest handicap, said this Democrat, was the city. The Republicans, he said, would hang the city’s problems — crime, schools — around […]
