Government
Jun. 21, 2001
Survival of the Fittest?
The distinction between public services and private contracts should not be so easily blurred by cities simply for economic reasons.
If you can visualize a city as a mutant life form, you'll understand a little better why you have to watch it so closely and why open-government laws are so important to democracy. Government agencies, like life forms, adapt to survive. In the parlance of evolution, that's called mutation. Gov...
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