Today's editorial in the JournalStar starts out pretty difficult to disagree with. Government should be accessible to the people, they say. Bravo! I think we can agree that accessible government is a good thing.
But then the editorial goes the other direction. It proposes drastically speeding up the City Council's ordinance-passing process, squishing something that normally takes three meetings into just one. I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised. It's a common complaint that government is too slow and too messy. But to see the LJS's editors succumb to the "speedy government is good government" fallacy is disappointing.
In fact, speed is a substantial threat to quality, accessible, accountable government. Knee-jerk ordinances will cause far more problems than those that have a chance to sit and simmer for a while. Apparently the LJS favors the microwave dinner approach to government; me, I'll take barbecue every time.
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