day in Troy. It starts with recognizing that maybe, just maybe, the extreme conservatives don't have a lock on the best ideas of what is best for everyone in Troy. Either do the "liberals." Either do the Independents. You won't get stew, Dale, if you're not willing to develop and blend the ingredients/ideas. I'm glad to hear that no one in Mary Kerwin's campaign had anything to do with it. Perhaps no one in Martin Howrylak's campaign had anything to do with the negative mailings on Kerwin either. I don't know. You have to take what you receive from PACs with a large grain of salt, especially shadowy ones where you can't figure out who is behind it. I googled Citizens for a Better Tomorrow and came up with Stephen Colbert's SuperPac. It would be nice to find out who is behind the Crocodile Dundee photo-shop work on Martin. I submitted an article last night comparing the two candidates, addressing some of the negative comments about Martin in Mary's official campaign flyer. When it gets posted by the editor you can read it and tell me what you think. I agree completely that we need all points of view represented if we're going to have a tasty stew: liberal and conservative. We have that in Troy, unlike some other cities that are dominated by one party. Machine politics breed corruption and are even uglier than the strife we have in Troy. I've been saying all along that we need all