By Logan Andrew Editor-In-Chief
I don’t even know where to start this week. After what we saw at the last council and committee meetings, it would feel like a lie to pretend everything’s fine.
It’s not fine.
It feels like everything’s falling apart — and for once, I don’t have a clear solution.
Normally, I can look at a problem, find a crack, find a lever, figure out how to move it. But sometimes, there’s no easy fix.
Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel isn’t there because it’s buried under a hundred tons of rubble.
So what do you do when it’s that bad?
You move one rock. Then another. And another.
Because giving up isn’t an option. Not for me. Not for any of us.
We have a job to do. Whether it’s reporting the news, drafting better laws, fighting fires, teaching kids, picking up garbage — it all matters.
It only takes a few people shrugging their shoulders and walking away for the whole system to collapse.
And make no mistake — some people want that collapse.
Some people want you tired, cynical, checked out. It makes it easier for them to buy up power while the rest of us are too busy blaming each other to stop them.
But here’s something worth remembering:
The opposite of love isn’t hate — it’s apathy.
We spend a lot of time complaining about the people willing to step into the arena. But the truth is, it’s easy to sit in the cheap seats and say, “Fire them all,” or “They’re all children.”
You don’t know these people.
You don’t know how much most of them care.
You don’t know how hard it is to be handed two terrible options and told to choose — knowing you’ll be attacked no matter what you decide.
That’s the job.
And believe me, I’ve been guilty of painting with a broad brush too. It’s an easy trap to fall into.
But if you were on Indeed and saw a job listing offering $7,000 a year — where you’d be attacked by constituents and colleagues alike, have every decision second-guessed, be demeaned at every turn, and have to fight like hell every two years just to keep it — would you take it?
I know you wouldn’t.
Because half a dozen races this election season are going uncontested.
That’s the real danger — not anger, but apathy.
The idea that someone else will do the hard work, someone else will fix it, someone else will care enough to step up.
But that’s not who we are.
We’re Americans. And that used to mean something.
It meant we dared to do the hard things.
It meant we didn’t wait for someone else to fix it.
It meant we believed this country — and our communities — were worth fighting for.
It’s time to remember that.
Stop letting cowards with fat wallets and empty souls make decisions for you.
They aren’t smarter. They aren’t stronger.
And they sure as hell don’t love this place more than we do.
We’re not waiting for permission.
We’re not asking for forgiveness.
We’re taking our town back — one piece at a time.
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