" I am surprised by the lack of concern or outrage from the Herald Times. As a newspaper with such a history for being the champion of "the Michigan Open Meetings Act" and public transparency, I would have expected a more vocal response from you. Perhaps that is what you meant by "the Herald Times will continue to look into it". But that is the weakest response to a violation of the open meetings act that I have ever heard from this paper. "

" I dont believe it is fair to scew the vote by combining the votes of two seperate boards and thereby minimizing the results of the first vote which was not in favor of Mr. Duffield.
Also you last statement that leadership is tested in adversity kind of overtakes your previous statement that this paper would "look into" this situation doesnt it?
This sounds to me like the "good ole boy" network in full force in this county, with the predictably "in house" Herald Times rolling over for the local Rotary Club Et Al.
None of my comments is to indicate that the wrong choice was made. In the end, it perhaps was and is appropriate that Mr. Duffield was chosen.
The problem concerns the way this whole matter was handled.
Even though the right choice was perhaps made, doesnt obviate the fact that a certain clique of local residents, Mary Sanders among them, are highly dominant of local politics in this community.
Its time that a new elite took over. "