The following is an opinion letter that was submitted to Fall River Reporter and was not written by us:
Mayor Coogan’s administration appears to have crossed a line that should alarm every resident: public trust depends on honest, precise explanations, and the reporting around the DCM scandal suggests that the city blurred two different cases in a way that misled the public. When a mayor allows confusion, deflection, or selective truth-telling to stand in for transparency, the issue is no longer just poor communication — it becomes a failure of leadership.
Time for accountability…