2011 was a momentous year locally and while deciding the top story was easy, in other years any of the top three would have been the top story and as many as the top six or seven could have been.
We knew going into 2011 that it was going to be an interesting year. The year began with a council vacancy to be filled, a city manager to hire, a budget to pass, and a water project looming.
One of the greatest lessons from Watergate has apparently been lost on the latest generation of leaders, and that is that no matter how badly you believe you acted, the worst thing that you can do is try to cover up your crimes.
It is not, in fact, the crimes of Watergate – shocking as they probably should have been for operatives working under the President’s reelection committee to have broken into the offices of political rivals – but rather the elaborate and yet clumsy and hasty ways in which they attempted to hide these facts from the American people that led to the only resignation we have had of an American President.
2011 was a momentous year locally and, while deciding the top story was easy, in other years any of the top three would have been the top story, and as many as the top six or seven could have been.