Here we go again!?. I’ll let you choose your punctuation. Maybe you’ve been reading this series with a yawn (then the period is for you); or an eye roll (you can take the question mark); or with some sense of excitement to hear that there are concrete steps Geneva could take to improve our collective situation. (we are the exclamation-point people!)

Yes, I have spent two months of columns trying to re-educate the public about Geneva’s comprehensive plan. In the same way that my classroom teaching is not about inventing my own philosophy, these columns are not about me making up my own ideas for community development. The document already exists, produced by experts, and we’d all be better off just taking the time to read and understand it.

I remain completely confused about why elected officials won’t learn the foundational material for governing and why we, as taxpayers, are content to let them just fly by the seat of their pants. How much longer should we let the guys in office poke around blindly, guided by “a gut feeling” rather than facts?

The short-term rental ordinance that finally made it through the last Council is now on hold because the current members got heat from their friends and family who are in the........

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