Thanks for your suggestion Jan. The real ones I will tell you about privately, but since this is creative nonfiction. I must tip-toe around some topics. Plus, lots of conjecture about the real commissioners.

Thanks Slim. Soon investigative reporter, Quinn, will take the lead!

Of course you know it was! But that’s what needs to happen. Organizations like the League of Women Voters or the Sierra Club have organized in this manner for many years but citizens in local communities have not and are only now beginning to be trained on how to organize the communication needed at public hearings. The fact that so many public schools no longer teach civics has furthered this problem.