[Rockingham]

I am watching the same thing happen now in several Florida cities.

The early warning signs seem to be: expanding budgets and municipal employment; showpiece civic projects; a rise in identity and grievance politics; and the injection of PC considerations into city government and police work.

Within a few years: budgets are out of balance and taxes raise; the big civic projects turn out to be over budget money-losers; identity and grievance politics hijacks civic life and demoralize the municipal workforce; and the crime rate runs up, with the true extent often masked by deliberate under-reporting.

I know nothing of Columbus. But is that the scenario being played out?

[mattnaugle]

You can listen to the audio of this interview here:

http://www.ohioforblackwell.com/blog/archives/2005/04/20/glenn-beck-rips-mayor-mike-coleman/

Coleman truly made an ass out of himself.