Whatever they can, they will. Larry Keaty answers the phone. It is a quiet afternoon in late January, six months into Edgewood's life, and governing has kept Keaty up nights. Governing's burden has set in. Rifts have opened.
Council members talk of late-evening calls from complaining citizens.
Stearley has found himself at odds with Keaty and is running against him for mayor in March, when Keaty, Ring and Calkins are up for re-election. Ring says Stearley overemphasizes public consensus and is reluctant to make tough decisions. He's trying to steamroll us. And so it goes. It's politics, born from people's different opinions about the way the world should work.