Civility needed. At a recent council meeting, councilmember Toth made a request for a letter to the state legislature indicating support for HB2164. Her description was that it would prohibit certain chemicals from being included in public school diets. She suggested that these chemicals caused obesity as well as other health issues.
And Mayor Friedel quickly looked around, looking for council support. There was no expressed objection, but there also was no real discussion or published information provided. Here is what I found disturbing.
Following the meeting, Councilmember McMahon did her own due diligence on the bill. She decided to exclude her name on the letter. That should have been the end of it. But conservative newspapers published an inaccurate and unnecessary article.
