I Recommend a Roadmap When Navigating This City

By Rachel Benavidez, Editor, Brownsville Herald. September 1, 2007 - 11:20PM

You said it, Tony. You said Tuesday what a lot of us have been thinking for weeks. A the Aug. 28 City Commission meeting, Commissioner Anthony P. Troiani pointed out that since this commission — including new additions Mayor Pat M. Ahumada Jr. and Troiani — was seated, it has addressed few substantive issues. Instead, it has spent time addressing “special interests,” Troiani pointed out, and was soon cut off in the muddle of other mouths with microphones that sit on the bowed panel each week, interrupting and trampling over each other’s words.

Put seven bulls inside a small room with red curtains, shut the door and cut them loose. The resulting chaos, headbutting, snorting and stomping would give you an idea of how City Commission meetings have been run lately. So it was during one of these little outbursts, and in a mixed tone of frustration and disappointment, that Troiani made his probably unpopular but truthful observation and prompted me to wonder: What has this City Commission actually accomplished? Click Here for the Rest of the Article.