More Mayor-Council Bickering, More Bad News for Downtown

The Sentinel has even more inflamatory comments from Mayor Dan Mylott today. The best:

"Besides political rhetoric and media grandstanding, the council has not offered nor articulated a clear, defining plan for the budget," Mylott said in the Sentinel.

We touched on this earlier this week, but it's becoming an important question: Just how much can the Council do here? By law, it can only subtract, not add, to the budget. By throwing the budget back to Mylott and demanding infrastructure funding, are they circumventing that law? That's not a rhetorical question. We'd like to know.

Also, Mylott has a point when he says he's not cutting and it's the Council's job. The Council is trying to play a cute trick here: Demand cuts, get cuts, but be able to later point to Mylott and say they're his cuts.

Who knows what kind of changes Mylott is going to make. Will he just try to get this over with, or jump into a protracted battle with the council on this?

In other news, a downtown businessman pulls out of town, and does so with guns blazing. No further commentary necessary, the story pretty much speaks for itself.