Letter to the editor
Last week, a prominent local Democrat publicly named the dysfunction in Gainesville’s city government that so many people have been calling out for years: “We have all begun to recognize the feel of authoritarian times, but I never expected that spirit to reach our fair city’s government,” Robert Hutchinson wrote on Facebook.
His post centers on the latest destruction of trees on City property, with a larger point: “This is happening despite every City Commissioner’s campaign literature and all the blah, blah, blah about the environment, trees, transparency, and listening to the public.”…