I missed the story in the Star Tribune, so I appreciate Terry/Better Minneapolis highlighting it (I guess I read my email more carefully than the paper). I subsequently read the Star Tribune article. I am not sure what to think. I can't imagine it is practical for all 13 members to negotiate with Frey to avoid a veto, and so it seems reasonable that the budget chair (Chughtai) would take the lead. It is hard to take Wonsley seriously when she storms out and does not vote - she could have at least registered a protest “no.”
I've been in decision-making groups where one member construed their role as to disrupt every attempt to reach consensus. The only way to move decisions forward was to end run or lock out the disruptor. From the outside, the budget process described above looks a lot like that.
I’m having a hard time feeling sorry for Wonsley, tbh. Who does she represent? The 17 people in her ward that voted?
I don’t disagree, though, with the idea that trust needs to be built into the system. People are too untrustworthy to do it any other way, especially when $2B and 400k lives are at stake.
New digital news stories likely are inserted near the top of the home page. But they need clicks to stay there and the Twins story posted shortly afterward likely got more clicks. That's how news web sites generally work, unlike the static front page of a newspaper that reflects what editors think to be most significant. Another way of looking at this is to posit that digital readers prefer outdoor baseball to inside baseball stories.
I missed the story in the Star Tribune, so I appreciate Terry/Better Minneapolis highlighting it (I guess I read my email more carefully than the paper). I subsequently read the Star Tribune article. I am not sure what to think. I can't imagine it is practical for all 13 members to negotiate with Frey to avoid a veto, and so it seems reasonable that the budget chair (Chughtai) would take the lead. It is hard to take Wonsley seriously when she storms out and does not vote - she could have at least registered a protest “no.”
I've been in decision-making groups where one member construed their role as to disrupt every attempt to reach consensus. The only way to move decisions forward was to end run or lock out the disruptor. From the outside, the budget process described above looks a lot like that.
I’m having a hard time feeling sorry for Wonsley, tbh. Who does she represent? The 17 people in her ward that voted?
I don’t disagree, though, with the idea that trust needs to be built into the system. People are too untrustworthy to do it any other way, especially when $2B and 400k lives are at stake.
New digital news stories likely are inserted near the top of the home page. But they need clicks to stay there and the Twins story posted shortly afterward likely got more clicks. That's how news web sites generally work, unlike the static front page of a newspaper that reflects what editors think to be most significant. Another way of looking at this is to posit that digital readers prefer outdoor baseball to inside baseball stories.