People love to turn public-records requests into morality plays. Who’s guilty. Who crossed a line. Who should be embarrassed. That’s not what this is. This PRR exists for one reason only: to test whether the City governs by process, or by vibes. Not people. Not personalities. Process. What We Know (and What We Don’t) From the records already produced, we …
How I Sued a Florida Politician While Dying (and Why You Should Too) I Filed Before the Game Changed This started under Knight v. Trump—when courts still believed the First Amendment applied to Twitter like it did to a town square. Then I got sick. ICU. Tubes. Exit music queued. While I hung on by a nose-hair, SCOTUS dropped Lindke …
TL;DR Cities are throwing legal and procedural “error codes.” I function like an OBD-II scanner: I stress-test meeting rules (public comment, invocations, viewpoint neutrality), pull the diagnostics, and flag risk early—quietly, with city attorneys—before it becomes litigation or public spectacle. Most cities don’t fail because of bad intentions.They fail because no one stress-tests the system before it’s put under pressure. …
A long-time reader and friend of the blog—someone you’d recognize by name, someone many of you know personally—pulled me aside recently. I’ll call him Dudley Do-Right. Dudley meant well. He always does. Dudley is, contrary to some opinion, a good guy. He told me this blog work looks exhausting. That it eats time, energy, and focus. That maybe—maybe—it isn’t worth …
