You write, "Smith was ridiculed for listening to business interests like the Edgewater Chamber of Commerce over the interests of those directly involved."

I'd be interested to hear how you're interests are directly involved. I'm not sure if you are aware of this, but as a person who actually lives in Edgewater, we view most of you Indymedia types as the ones who have no 'direct interest' and are simply using this as another excuse to shake a stick and bang on a drum in your protest-hobbyism.

The people who own businesses and homes in the Senn neighborhood have more of an interest in this issue that even some of the teachers who come in for a few hours a day, much less a bunch of wanna-be-hippies who seek every chance to prove their uber-morality by reading this website and showing up for every protest they can.