Category Archives: About This Blog
This week in Council: off
The Council won’t meet this week for its usual Committee of the Whole. We had only one item for First Reading at last week’s Regular Session. Anticipating the Thanksgiving holiday, we held a Committee of the Whole last week right … Continue reading
Welcome to the new site
Part of the reason I haven’t posted in almost a year was that I wanted to leave Blogger. But I wasn’t too familiar with better options. So not only did I stay, I sorta gave up. It happens. Now I’m … Continue reading
No such thing as government in the singular
¬† I find that most people don’t understand government.¬† Partly that’s because there’s no such thing as “government,” in the singular, monolithic sense of the word. There are many “governments,” plural. There are federal, state and local governments. The executive … Continue reading
About Councilmanic
I’m a sitting councilman in Bloomington, Indiana USA. Since before I took office two years ago, I’ve been thinking about publishing a blog to articulate my experiences and work out my thoughts as a municipal officeholder. Partly it was to … Continue reading