Three Minute Government

Gotta love Jon Baliles, aka “Snoopy,” over at RiverCity Rapids blog. He sat through the public comment session on a baseball stadium for downtown Richmond and summarized an incredible number of three minute opinions.

I don’t know how local government officials do it. I can’t bear to watch more than a few televised moments of such meetings. It’s raw, pure democracy, but it’s one thing I’m more than happy to have the fourth estate cover for me. Or are blogs a “fifth estate?”