This year’s city election, already shaping up as a snoozer, got a little more boring this afternoon after Democrat Daniel Patterson decided against challenging Republican Mayor Bob Walkup. Patterson made the announcement on his blog. So now the most likely Democrat is a borderline-homeless regular at Council meetings, Michael Toney.
But we may have a little excitement after all. We hear that former lawmaker John Kromko has filed some sort of initiative to get rid of the $14-a-month garbage fee and limit growth. Details in next week’s Skinny…
This article appears in Apr 5-11, 2007.

Durn. Ah, well. 🙂