How about Delaying the Cityhood Question; Maybe We Should Wait Until Next Year

There has been a lot of discussion – particularly among Democratic legislators -- about just forgetting this whole question until next year (or two years, or four years…).  What does that mean?

That’s like asking if it’s OK to skip a year of school. Your child will only be a year behind where they could be. What would that mean in the grand scale of things? Well, actually it means a lot!

It’s like saying “I’m going to start my diet tomorrow, or next week, or next month.”  Or, “I’m going to start exercising (fill in some date in the future)”. It’s a way of saying “I really don’t want to do anything.”

Ask it the other way around: Would I like to get started now on park improvements, sidewalks and street improvements, and better policing; or maybe it would be OK to wait another year; or to some future time.