I began this series as a reaction to the front-page opinion series that looked at old problems (too much property off the tax rolls, a climbing tax rate, a lack of intermunicipal cooperation) through the lens of old, tired, dead-end “solutions” (build on the lakefront, “cut taxes” in some generic unspecified way, and “take over the town”). The title of that series could have been “Tell Me You Don’t Really Understand the Problem Without Telling Me You Don’t Really Understand the Problem.” But I timed this series to end at the conclusion of this almost-all-newbie City Council’s first 100 days in office.
It’s a general rule of thumb that you can tell what a political body will accomplish by looking at the way the first 100 days unfolds. The Geneva City Council has a........