A carte blanche handover of power

On April 6 the Kalispell City Council voted, with almost no advance notice and very limited public notice, to approve and ratify a Declaration of a State of Local Disaster Emergency drafted by the city manager. In an Inter Lake editorial dated April 9 seeking to put this “in context”, the mayor and city manager were quoted as stating:

“It’s important to identify that day-to-day activities aren’t going to change,” Russell pointed out...