Turkey Day

Where has the time gone. Six months since the election and I am feeling the itch to comment on some of the stuffing in our municipal turkey.

Tomorrow is a first for Trenton, at least in recent memory, as the Trenton Thanksgiving Parade winds its way from the State Capitol to City Hall. This could be lots of fun and the weather forcast is sunny and cold. No snow for the trip to Grandmother's house but who cares...maybe Santa/Mack will be at City Hall,

I can't believe I said that. I better concentrate on the other turkey...no pun intended.

Any recipe for stuffing (or dressing if you will) contains a traditional balance of bread crumbs, onions, celery, herbs, and salt and pepper to taste.

Lets start with the traditional crumb stuffing for our turkey...usually this is when opinions pop out about corn bread vs. Italian bread.

Trenton's Trentonian newspaper has been toasting Tony's crumbs so long that they can sop up lots of gravy. Come to think of it, at $100,000 per exec, there may not be enough gravy to go around.

Chopping onions always makes me cry and do they stink. I hate to say it, City Hall does the same thing.

Celery gives the recipe a little crunch and flavor, not unlike the colorful collection of employees that now work in mayoral offices. Usually herbs like parsley and sage flavor the mix, but I think sage (wisdom) is in short supply, judging by the lack of ordinary common sense used to find qualified city staff.

Salt...it is rubbing salt in the raw wounds of taxpayers to keep promising that police, firemen and even dogcatchers will stay working while making some of them quit and other take demotions, knowing that the money issue has not been solved.

It is troubling and a tummy churning dilemma. I hope this holiday does not come off half-baked because I don't have a lot of confidence in the recipe ingredients.

I keep wondering if there is a hidden strategy in Mayor Mack's administration that will pull some of these problems out of the fire. I really hope that something works because ordinary citizens seem to have lost a lot of clout. I hope that city council is able to stay ahead of the issues constantly being tossed their way.

Have a good day.