Laurie Ortolano: We Politicize Public Input at Our Own Peril

Laurie Ortolano: We politicize public input at our own peril

SINCE THE outset of Nashua Mayor Jim Donchess’s leadership, our city’s political climate has shifted to destabilize our democracy. A persistent pattern has emerged, with elected officials appointed or endorsed by the mayor, making statements that marginalize concerned citizens, question…

The Secretary General of the City Council of San Luis Potosí, Fernando Chávez Méndez, made a firm call to the state leader of the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico, Ignacio Segura Morquecho, to stop politicizing municipal public services and security and prioritize joint work in favor of citizenship: “Division and conflict do not help; what people want are services that work, useful works and results, not lawsuits between authorities,” he said.