Sen. Regier’s impact fee bill ill-advised

Years ago I was at a state sponsored training on ethics and the man sitting next to me (who had a fun, but jaundiced sense of humor after being involved in politics for decades) told me “the thing about lawsuits is that one side is always wrong.”

Another thing that I have learned since is that there are two things public officials are not able to disclose or discuss publicly: the details of a current, unsettled lawsuit (to avoid giving the opponent of the city the advantage) and personnel issues (to protect the rights of our employees to due process)...