We often criticize public officials, particularly at the state and federal levels, whose focus appears to be more on establishing their legacy as social and environmental engineers rather than, say, our state’s and nation’s problems of massive budget deficits and unfunded liabilities, regulatory excess, resource management, just to name a few.
There’s also our increased polarization, particularly in the halls of government, where individual agendas and personas seem too often to outweigh public good.
Thus,…