Freezing fares, trimming the planners was an option for some reason off the table. Why?

Q. How many Met Council planners does it take to change a light bulb?

A. Do any know how?

Perhaps too harsh. But all that regular and locally costly comp plan stuff with the iron fist in the velvet glove propaganda that local control matters, and with Lake Elmo as history, casts its light on Met Council's relationship with those metro towns to which it dictates. An unfavorable light. Town planning staffs, they're happy, taxpayers, well . . .

Hello, Lake Elmo.

For context, Strib here and here.