City council in TV Land?

Matt Nash's newspaper column today is a mostly good-natured view of council relations. He is to be admired for this even-tempered approach, even if we know that he probably wouldn't be repaid with the same courtesy by the Copperhead.

NASH: City Council is one big happy family

As I sat through Monday’s New Albany City Council meeting I began to look at each of the participants individually. It seems that as an assembled group they have the same dynamic as the modern day family, maybe a somewhat dysfunctional family but what family isn’t just a little bit dysfunctional these days.