As alluded to in the header and sidebar, the goal of this site is to promote and advocate positive change in local and state government entities to make New Brighton a vibrant suburban community, a safe and clean place to live and raise a family where private property rights are respected and businesses can thrive.
Please do not conclude that I (and, I feel safe in saying, the other contributors to this blog) think New Brighton is a bad place to live. For the most part New Brighton city government has the "safe and clean" objectives pretty much under control, but overall could do much better in the areas of private property rights, business climate, fiscal responsibility, and limited government. New Brighton city government has far too many career politicians, commission members, and staff bureaucrats who have over the years entrenched themselves in a cumbersome bureaucracy built on a foundation of political career aspirations, unnecessary or overreaching ordinances and regulations, personal societal agendas, and unsound fiscal policies and decisions.
Those who currently run city government are for the most part well meaning people, but it does seem that many of them have lost sight (assuming they ever had it) of the concept that the primary function of government is to serve and be accountable to the people, not the other way around. This year is an election year in New Brighton, with the mayor's and two city council seats for the voters to decide how to fill. Elections have consequences. In coming posts we will examine the consequences of previous elections and advocate how we the voters can correct some of the negative ones and build on the positive ones.
Finally, this blog is not intended to be what some voters and elected officials would, rightly or wrongly, term a partisan "attack" site that sometimes pushes the limits of decorum, commentary, and satire up to (and sometimes slightly over) the proverbial line in order to score political points. Not that there is anything wrong with these sort of enterprises. There are some fine blogs and Facebook groups in the Twin Cities area that do raise valid issues and provide thought provoking commentary without regard to political correctness or "appropriateness". I see the role of this blog as a complimentary perspective to the passionately partisan sites that may express similar or contrary views from ours within the arena of political ideas. There is nothing wrong with partisanship, especially when one strongly feels that the opposing view is wrong or harmful to our society.
This blog also should not be viewed as a source of unbiased reporting or equal time coverage. The other contributors and I generally have strong partisan biases toward limited government, personal freedom, traditional values, sound fiscal and economic policy, and holding elected officials accountable for their actions. We may not always agree among ourselves on what is the best way to get there, but we all seek the same goal of a better New Brighton than we have today and encourage you the reader to get active and join us in this pursuit.
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