The Right Call

I t was a brief but awkward moment in council chambers Monday night. Council members were in the midst of discussing a proposed amendment to the city's municipal code that shifts the burden of repairing and maintaining the public-right-ofway portion of local homeowners' sewer connection to the city's main line.

The first, second and third readings of the amendment had already passed unanimously and the council was getting ready to vote on the ordinance itself when councilman Merle Jackson noted that the proposal represents a significant departure from the way things are done in town now.

And t...