Elected Leaders or Corporate Puppets? The Data Center Debacle
While always the case in development decisions, the ongoing hyperscale data center drama highlights the fact that city officials are more beholden to big business than voters.
While always the case in development decisions, the ongoing hyperscale data center drama highlights the fact that city officials are more beholden to big business than voters.
Readers have asked about photos featured on the Board of Aldermen’s social media. We took these questions to the President’s office.
If aldermen simply have issues with “drafting errors”, they could have sent a fix to voters years ago. Instead, their actions appear purposeful.
A record request indicates city aldermen are still ignoring reforms to the city charter’s ethics provisions that passed in 2022.