The best way to get factual information is to attend council meetings in person, and take whatever copies of documents offered, go home, highlight them, write questions down, and either call the representatives personally or use the papers at the next council meeting to answer your own concerns. Most reporters complain that their deadlines do not permit this. They are simply too lazy to do these things, and feel that they are not paid to do them. That is how misinformation and outright silliness gets put into newspapers as 'fact'. There are no more investigative reporters; no one aspires to be a Woodward. Instead, they aspire only to be the ones to stir hate and discontent - and then write about the altercations that they themselves create with misinformation.

Since I used to be a reporter, this is anathema to me. I'm glad you took the time to investigate - but what a shame your local reporters, who are paid to do so, could not.