Aurora is not short on real problems. We have a public-safety imperative: keep crime trending down and keep it down. We have a humanitarian imperative: move the homeless off sidewalks and into services that restore people to stability, treatment and work — something resembling normal life. We have an economic imperative: expand attainable housing — single-family and multi-family — fast enough to keep Aurora from pricing out ordinary families. We have an infrastructure imperative: rejuvenate aging public infrastructure and expand where growth demands. And we must stop punishing seniors with runaway property-tax increases, period. Now.
That is the stage. That is the script Aurora needs. And yet, the new progressive leadership on City Council has chosen to rehearse a different play.
Not governance. Performance. Not accountability. Deflection.
The problem isn’t that they hold progressive views. Aurora can handle debate. The problem is that, confronted with concrete issues demanding focused competence, they have chosen the soft intoxication of virtue — cheap, theatrical, and functionally useless — while treating an integrity breach in their own ranks as a non-event…